#100 - Dr. Chauncey Crandall
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with Dr. Chauncey Crandall about his new book Touching God, the power of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, healing, miracles, and why so many churches have ignored one of the most important parts of the Christian life. They also revisit the astonishing story of a dead man raised back to life and why Crandall believes believers need boldness, authority, and the presence of God now more than ever. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. This is the program. Today, we're going to be talking to a renowned medical doctor about God. |
| 0:16.5 | The Holy Spirit. Remember the Holy Spirit? Yeah, that's God. That's the third person of the Trinity. |
| 0:22.4 | The doctor with whom I'm going to speak is Dr. Chauncey Crandall the fourth. He's one of the most respected voices in modern medicine, board certified expert in both internal medicine and cardiology. He's trained in the most prestigious institutions in the world. Yale University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital, and it goes on and on. |
| 0:41.5 | It's a joy to have him back. |
| 0:43.7 | Dr. Chauncey Crandall, welcome back. |
| 0:46.4 | Thank you, Eric. |
| 0:47.5 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:49.0 | I tried to get it all in, and I failed. |
| 0:51.7 | I want to talk to you about your new book called |
| 0:55.0 | Touching God, Understanding and Experiencing the Holy Spirit. Now, this is something you and I have |
| 1:03.5 | talked about. I talk about it in my own life. What led you to write a book about this? What's the |
| 1:10.3 | thesis, basically, of the book? |
| 1:13.2 | Well, the bottom line, Eric, is that most of us are not even taught about the Holy Spirit or know about the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:21.0 | I was raised in a Presbyterian church, and they never talked about the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:26.9 | So it wasn't something that people knew about. |
| 1:32.2 | The Holy Spirit is here. He's part of the Trinity, Father's Son, and Holy Spirit. But no one ever |
| 1:38.6 | talks about the Holy Spirit. I thought he just needed to have a relationship with Jesus. That was it. |
| 1:44.5 | We were out there by ourselves. |
| 1:46.4 | We were going up if we were a born again believer. |
| 1:49.2 | But then the Holy Spirit came to me through many different directions, the power of the Holy Spirit and the kingdom of God. |
| 1:57.4 | So as believers, we carried the kingdom. |
| 2:00.3 | And that was something I really didn't know about even as an early believer. So as believers, we carry the kingdom. And that was something I really didn't know about |
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