A season of reflection and gratefulness for life in its various forms, trials, and triumphs. To me, the season of Thanksgiving is the perfect and logical precursor to the season of Christmas — of thankfulness and gratitude for the love of a Holy God that took the human form of a baby in a manger.

— Ron M. Phillips (b. 1947), Pastor und Buchautor

Topics: Joy & Gratitude, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption

Occasions: The Church Year, For Reflection

Ron M. Phillips

Ron M. Phillips (* 1947) ist ein US-amerikanischer Pastor und Autor, der von 1979 bis 2017 die Großgemeinde Abba’s House in Tennessee leitete. Bekannt wurde er durch den Versuch, baptistische Theologie mit charismatischer Frömmigkeit zu verbinden, womit er innerhalb der traditionell zessionalistischen Southern Baptist Convention anhaltende theologische Kontroversen auslöste. Heutigen Bibellesern vermitteln seine Texte Impulse zu geistlicher Erneuerung, Gebet und dem Wirken des Heiligen Geistes.

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