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Doug Dial, a native of Maine and longtime New Jersey resident, is an author known for his inspirational, easy-to-read poetry and heartfelt insights. With a background in theology, decades of teaching and speaking experience, and a deep love for Jesus and his wife of 40+ years, Doug writes with warmth, wisdom, and real-life relevance.

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  • A Pulpit on Fire

    Firebrands for Christ 👉 E. M. Bounds, a Methodist minister of a hundred years ago: 👉👉👉 “The power of Christ’s dispensation is a fiery pulpit—not a learned pulpit, not a popular pulpit, not an eloquent pulpit, but a pulpit on fire with the Holy Ghost. This power is not the mere iteration or reiteration of…

  • The Door of the Sheep

    I adore the Door Forever more I adore the Door Of the sheep I enter in And go out with Him He alone My soul doth keep More Abundantly I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10 He’s the Shepherd of the kept He’s the…

  • The Miracle of Pentecost

    👉 The Holy Spirit Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. Acts 2:33 👉 The Surrendered Believers All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the…

  • Awesome Things Unexpected

    “The church still has a theology of the Holy Spirit, but it has no living consciousness of his presence and power. Theology without experience is like faith without works: it is dead. The signs of death abound. Prayer meetings have died out because men did not believe in the Holy Ghost. The liberty of prophesying…

  • The True Disciple’s Diet

    Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” John 6:53 What does this even mean? Partaking of His blood Feeding on the Bread The disciple’s steady diet That’s what Jesus said Unless we eat…

  • Dull, Ordinary or Holy Fire

    In Jim Cymbala’s book “Fresh Power,” in chapter 3, “Something From Heaven” he states 👉 “Many people today, even church members, agree with the critics, although they are too polite to say so. Everything in the church service may be doctrinally sound—but there’s nothing from heaven that grips them. Too often we are found discussing…

  • The Spirit Prevails

    — by Samuel Chadwick The work of God is not by might of men or by the power of men but by his Spirit. It is by him the truth convicts and converts, sanctifies and saves. The philosophies of men fail, but the Word of God in the demonstration of the Spirit prevails. Our wants…

  • His Worshippers Must Worship

    Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. — John 4: 23, 24 Worship in the…

  • By My Spirit

    In his book “Fresh Power,” author, preacher and pastor Jim Cymbala exhorts the church on our need for a fresh infusion of the Holy Spirit and says: “The church’s great task is not to clarify what the “mark of the beast” is or who the “bear of the North” is or whether the Jerusalem Temple…

  • Spirit of the Living God

    From Hovering… to Calling There was a time—before shape, before light, before life— when everything was chaos. Not broken… just unformed. Not dead… just waiting. And in that moment, the Bible tells us something remarkable: “The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” (Genesis 1:2) He didn’t run from the chaos. He didn’t condemn…