I am currently doing a research paper on “Are the miraculous gifts for today?”\u00a0 I read your sermon on your website and would like to know if you could recommend any books I should use for my research.<\/p>\n\t
Read C.S. Lewis’ book\u00a0Miracles<\/i>. Also, Apologetics Press has a good article on this topic: Modern-Day Miracles, Tongue-Speaking, and Holy Spirit Baptism: A Refutation<\/a>. The Interactive Bible has very thorough\u00a0documentation\u00a0<\/a>of the fraudulent claims being made concerning modern-day miracles. Both of the latter have bibliographies which will lead you to additional books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: I am currently doing a research paper on “Are the miraculous gifts for today?”\u00a0 I read your sermon on your website and would like to know if you could recommend any books I should use for my research. Answer: Read C.S. Lewis’ book\u00a0Miracles. Also, Apologetics Press has a good article on this topic: Modern-Day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[428,363],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-gifts-of-the-holy-spirit","tag-miracles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88233,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-there-are-no-genuine-miracles-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":9460,"position":0},"title":"Why There Are No Genuine Miracles Today","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Roger D. 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