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The Good Portion – the Holy Spirit: Delighting in the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Not Just a Power, But a Person: The Holy Spirit in the Christian Life
In this engaging exploration of the Third Person of the Trinity, Keri Folmar invites women to discover the Holy Spirit’s active presence in their daily lives. Moving beyond common misconceptions and dramatic manifestations, she reveals how the Spirit works powerfully through ordinary means – Scripture, prayer, and the local church.
Drawing from both Scripture and real–life examples, Folmar shows how the Holy Spirit isn’t a power to be harnessed, but a divine Person who breathes life into creation, illuminates God’s word, and knits believers together in community. Her careful treatment extends from the Spirit’s cosmic work in creation to His intimate role in personal sanctification.
Written with clarity and theological depth, this book helps readers understand:
How the Spirit inspired Scripture and illuminates it today
How the Spirit applies Christ’s redemption to believers
Why every Christian has the Spirit and His gifts
What it means to bear spiritual fruit in community
Perfect for individual study or group discussion, this addition to The Good Portion series will help women delight in their relationship with the Holy Spirit and appreciate His vital role in their spiritual growth and the life of the church.
The Good Portion is a series written specifically for women to immerse themselves in the depths of Christian doctrine. Our goal is to spur women on to relish the truths of the Christian faith as they do what they were created for—enjoy knowing God.
In this engaging exploration of the Third Person of the Trinity, Keri Folmar invites women to discover the Holy Spirit’s active presence in their daily lives. Moving beyond common misconceptions and dramatic manifestations, she reveals how the Spirit works powerfully through ordinary means – Scripture, prayer, and the local church.
Drawing from both Scripture and real–life examples, Folmar shows how the Holy Spirit isn’t a power to be harnessed, but a divine Person who breathes life into creation, illuminates God’s word, and knits believers together in community. Her careful treatment extends from the Spirit’s cosmic work in creation to His intimate role in personal sanctification.
Written with clarity and theological depth, this book helps readers understand:
How the Spirit inspired Scripture and illuminates it today
How the Spirit applies Christ’s redemption to believers
Why every Christian has the Spirit and His gifts
What it means to bear spiritual fruit in community
Perfect for individual study or group discussion, this addition to The Good Portion series will help women delight in their relationship with the Holy Spirit and appreciate His vital role in their spiritual growth and the life of the church.
The Good Portion is a series written specifically for women to immerse themselves in the depths of Christian doctrine. Our goal is to spur women on to relish the truths of the Christian faith as they do what they were created for—enjoy knowing God.
224 pages, Paperback
Published September 9, 2025
About the author
Keri Folmar
19 books31 followersKeri Folmar is the wife of John Folmar, pastor of the United Christian Church of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and the mother of three children. In a previous life, as chief counsel of House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, she was staff writer of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban.
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April 2, 2026
Fantastic book explaining the Holy Spirit!!
February 3, 2026
Anyone who wants to know God—the one true Christian God who exists as Trinity—needs to know something about the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead. If you recite the Nicene Creed (and I hope you do) you affirm your belief in the Holy Spirit, but how much do you know about him? Who is he? What is he? What does he do?
These are some of the questions Keri Folmar answers in her new book, The Good Portion: The Holy Spirit, the most recent addition to the Good Portion series of theology books written by women for women. Keri’s aim in this theologically deep but easy-to-understand book is to help women know God better by leavning about the Holy Spirit.
The beginning section of The Good Portion: The Holy Spirit is a discussion of the person of the Holy Spirit. First, Keri traces the appearances of the Spirit through the historical covenants of scripture. The Holy Spirit was at creation, for instance, breathing life into the first man Adam. He is the one who circumcises the hearts of the spiritual offspring of Abraham in fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant. He empowered the prophets, giving them words of warning about God’s approaching judgment, but also words of hope for a Deliverer to come. The Spirit was poured out in the New Covenant, giving God’s people confidence to proclaim the saving work of the Christ. There’s more, but let me just say that this first chapter walking us through the Bible to show us where we see the Spirit was my favorite section of the book because I had never before seen it all put together the way Keri has done it.
Part one concludes with a discussion of who the Spirit is. He is of the same nature as the Father and the Son—the third person of the Trinity—so all the attributes of God belong to him. He, too, is all-knowing, all-powerful, holy, and loving. He is personal in the same way the Father and Son are, and those who think of him as an impersonal force have him all wrong.
The bulk of The Good Portion: The Holy Spirit—the whole second section—examines the work of the Holy Spirit. He is creation’s life-giver, breathing life into all living things. Jesus was conceived and then resurrected by the Spirit’s life-giving power, and all those who believe in Jesus are likewise raised to new life by the Spirit. In God’s plan of salvation, he is the one who applies Christ’s finished work to those who believe. Christians are united to Christ through the Spirit’s work. It is through him that God dwells with his people, both individually and as a church body. We have God’s written word because the Spirit moved the authors of Scripture to write down what he wanted them to say, and we can understand and apply Scripture because he opens our minds and hearts to know what the words mean and how they pertain to our own lives. What’s more, the Spirit empowers believers to spread the gospel in their communities and around the world, and gives them gifts to use to serve their local churches. And last, the Spirit sanctifies those who believe, developing the fruit of the Spirit within them, and making them more like Christ.
In other words, I breathe because of the Spirit. My garden grows through the Spirit’s life-giving work. I am born again by the Holy Spirit. The words on the pages of my Bible become alive to me by a work of the Spirit. I am becoming conformed to the image of Christ because of the work of the Spirit within me, work that is sometimes painful, but ultimately gives me true hope.
Some people call the Spirit the “shy” person of the Trinity because his work is quiet and points away from himself to the Son and the Father, but it’s a blessing to focus on him for a while and rejoice in his extraordinary work. I am so pleased to have this latest book in The Good Portion series—one that celebrates the Holy Spirit and his work. I hope you will pick it up and read it, too.
These are some of the questions Keri Folmar answers in her new book, The Good Portion: The Holy Spirit, the most recent addition to the Good Portion series of theology books written by women for women. Keri’s aim in this theologically deep but easy-to-understand book is to help women know God better by leavning about the Holy Spirit.
The beginning section of The Good Portion: The Holy Spirit is a discussion of the person of the Holy Spirit. First, Keri traces the appearances of the Spirit through the historical covenants of scripture. The Holy Spirit was at creation, for instance, breathing life into the first man Adam. He is the one who circumcises the hearts of the spiritual offspring of Abraham in fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant. He empowered the prophets, giving them words of warning about God’s approaching judgment, but also words of hope for a Deliverer to come. The Spirit was poured out in the New Covenant, giving God’s people confidence to proclaim the saving work of the Christ. There’s more, but let me just say that this first chapter walking us through the Bible to show us where we see the Spirit was my favorite section of the book because I had never before seen it all put together the way Keri has done it.
Part one concludes with a discussion of who the Spirit is. He is of the same nature as the Father and the Son—the third person of the Trinity—so all the attributes of God belong to him. He, too, is all-knowing, all-powerful, holy, and loving. He is personal in the same way the Father and Son are, and those who think of him as an impersonal force have him all wrong.
The bulk of The Good Portion: The Holy Spirit—the whole second section—examines the work of the Holy Spirit. He is creation’s life-giver, breathing life into all living things. Jesus was conceived and then resurrected by the Spirit’s life-giving power, and all those who believe in Jesus are likewise raised to new life by the Spirit. In God’s plan of salvation, he is the one who applies Christ’s finished work to those who believe. Christians are united to Christ through the Spirit’s work. It is through him that God dwells with his people, both individually and as a church body. We have God’s written word because the Spirit moved the authors of Scripture to write down what he wanted them to say, and we can understand and apply Scripture because he opens our minds and hearts to know what the words mean and how they pertain to our own lives. What’s more, the Spirit empowers believers to spread the gospel in their communities and around the world, and gives them gifts to use to serve their local churches. And last, the Spirit sanctifies those who believe, developing the fruit of the Spirit within them, and making them more like Christ.
In other words, I breathe because of the Spirit. My garden grows through the Spirit’s life-giving work. I am born again by the Holy Spirit. The words on the pages of my Bible become alive to me by a work of the Spirit. I am becoming conformed to the image of Christ because of the work of the Spirit within me, work that is sometimes painful, but ultimately gives me true hope.
Some people call the Spirit the “shy” person of the Trinity because his work is quiet and points away from himself to the Son and the Father, but it’s a blessing to focus on him for a while and rejoice in his extraordinary work. I am so pleased to have this latest book in The Good Portion series—one that celebrates the Holy Spirit and his work. I hope you will pick it up and read it, too.
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