🔥 Spiritual Gifts Are For Today | Episode 31 with Dr. Craig Keener

Did the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit disappear with the apostles or are miracles, prophecy, healing, and tongues still available to believers today? In this deep-dive conversation, Daniel Kolenda sits down with New Testament scholar Dr. Craig Keener to make the biblical, historical, and evidential case that spiritual gifts are still for today. Daniel and Craig have just released their new book, Spiritual Gifts Are for Today: A Biblical Case for the Continuing Work of the Holy Spirit, and in this episode they tackle some of the strongest arguments used to defend cessationism. They discuss why they believe the New Testament never teaches that miraculous gifts would disappear, why explicit biblical commands to pursue prophecy and spiritual gifts still matter, and whether cessationism itself depends on a theological framework imposed onto Scripture after the biblical period.The conversation also examines historical and modern miracle claims, including medically documented cases of healing, miracle reports from the early church fathers, and evidence that supernatural works of God continued long after the apostolic era. Daniel and Craig ultimately argue that the case for continuationism does not rest on experience. It rests on Scripture. And if the Bible commands Christians to earnestly desire spiritual gifts, their challenge is simple: Why would we stop pursuing what the New Testament never tells us has ceased?Spiritual Gifts Are For Today Book: https://shopus.cfan.org/collections/new-releases/products/spiritual-gifts-are-for-today***10% discount*** in our store using the coupon code: DANIEL10CfaN Store: https://shopus.cfan.orgDr. Craig Keener: https://craigkeener.com#DanielKolenda #CraigKeener #SpiritualGifts #Cessationism #Continuationism #HolySpirit #SpeakingInTongues #Prophecy #Miracles #Healing #JohnMacArthur #StrangeFire #ChristianPodcast #BibleTeaching #NewTestament #Charismatic #Pentecostal #ChristianTheology #SpiritualGiftsAreForToday #CfaN #ChristForAllNations00:00 – COMING UP00:39 – Craig Keener & Spiritual Gifts Are for Today05:05 – Did Miracles Really Disappear After the Apostles?09:12 – John MacArthur, Strange Fire & Why Craig Responded13:28 – Is Cessationism Heresy?18:10 – Does God Still Give Power Against the Demonic?19:44 – Reacting to the Strange Fire Arguments23:10 – Does 1 Corinthians 13 Prove the Gifts Continue?26:13 – Did Apostles Cease?31:20 – The Danger of Arguing From Silence35:04 – The Strongest Biblical Case for Spiritual Gifts37:27 – Craig Keener: From Atheist to Speaking in Tongues42:38 – Why the Global Church Rarely Debates Cessationism43:43 – Can You Build Doctrine From the Book of Acts?47:00 – Miraculous vs. Non-Miraculous Gifts49:16 – “Earnestly Desire Spiritual Gifts”50:28 – Does Ephesians 2:20 End Apostles & Prophets?54:13 – Does the Gift of Healing Mean Everyone Gets Healed?57:51 – The Compassion Problem With Cessationism1:00:19 – Miracles Throughout Church History1:02:28 – Medically Documented Healings1:09:47 – Did Miracles Only Happen in Three Biblical Eras?1:12:49 – Why They Wrote Spiritual Gifts Are for Today1:14:13 – “Earnestly Desire the Greater Gifts”Monthly Ministry Partner: https://cfan.orgMinistry Training: https://cfan.org/trainingSubscribe to CfaN to receive our latest messages:Email: https://cfan.org/subscribeSMS: Text CFAN to 94090To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://cfan.org/donateEvangelist Daniel Kolenda YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/⁨@DanielKolenda⁩ Evangelist Daniel Kolenda Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evangelistkolendaEvangelist Daniel Kolenda Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evangelistdanielkolendaMB01ADU6NZLET1D