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  • Reflections on the 2023 Asbury Revival and its Implications for Pentecostal Christians

    Reflections on the 2023 Asbury Revival and its Implications for Pentecostal Christians

    Here we are post-pandemic, surprised and encouraged by a move of God in the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. The revival (or renewal as some call it) started on February 8, 2023, during the school’s chapel service and went on for fifteen days. Basically, it was fifteen days of 24-hour prayer and worship. […]

  • People Met Jesus Deeply Here: Craig Keener on the Asbury Outpouring

    People Met Jesus Deeply Here: Craig Keener on the Asbury Outpouring

    I teach at Asbury Seminary, which is a distinct institution from Asbury University, but my wife Médine teaches French at the university and both my kids attended there. So, I don’t feel guilty cutting across the university campus to get to work. Three years ago, I was cutting across the campus when a zealous African-American […]

  • The Theological Problem of Spirit versus Scripture

    The Theological Problem of Spirit versus Scripture

    A radical move In 2002 I was contemplating an interstate move on the basis of a dream. ‘Move to Sydney,’ the Spirit had said, ‘and you will become the Academic Dean of Hillsong College.’ At the time, I had been working two part-time jobs – one at a local Bible college, and the other, pastoring […]

  • Robert Menzies: Christ-Centered

    Robert Menzies: Christ-Centered

    Robert P. Menzies, Christ-Centered: The Evangelical Nature of Pentecostal Theology (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2020), 166 pages, ISBN 9781725267824. A few years ago, I was having lunch with a good friend, the editor-in-chief of a flagship evangelical magazine. I knew him well enough to raise a question: “Tell me something: Why do your articles regularly […]

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  • Tania Harris: The Church Who Hears God's Voice

    Tania Harris: The Church Who Hears God’s Voice

    Tania Harris, The Church Who Hears God’s Voice: Equipping Everyone to Recognise and Respond to the Spirit (Paternoster, 2022), 320 pages, ISBN 9781788932462. This book is a revision of Tania Harris’s dissertation in practical theology written under Jon Newton at

    August 2, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • A Consuming Fire

    A Consuming Fire

    During the month of May or June (depending on the calendar), Christians throughout the world celebrate “Pentecost Sunday” – a time of rejoicing and reflection on the mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon those who had assembled to receive

    May 22, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Will I Still Be Me After Death?

    Will I Still Be Me After Death?

    In his series about Heaven, Pastor Daniel Brown asks, in the world to come, will we be who we were? There are two kinds of death—spiritual and natural. Death is not a state of oblivion or non-existence; it is, rather,

    August 28, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Planting Seeds

    Planting Seeds

    When I was a child in Adams County in central Pennsylvania, our family planted large gardens with corn, beans, watermelons, potatoes, and all sorts of plants. I would walk outside each morning to see how much the seeds had grown. This

    August 22, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Leadership: Improving Your Spiritual Service

    Leadership: Improving Your Spiritual Service

    All leadership skills are learned. No Christian has the edge over anyone else. In other words, believers are born with equal abilities to lead. Spiritual leaders must have a moral compass on which to build these skills. Spiritual leadership provides

    September 3, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • How Significant Are New Testament Manuscripts?

    How Significant Are New Testament Manuscripts?

    “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.  I charge you therefore before

    September 9, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Seminary Now with Craig Keener

    Seminary Now with Craig Keener

    Have you ever read the Bible and not understood what you read? Have you ever wondered why? Have you found yourself wishing that you could better understand it? I would venture to guess that most, if not all, Christians would,

    August 10, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology

    Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology

    Peter Hocken, Tony L. Richie, and Christopher Stephenson, eds., Pentecostal Theology and Ecumenical Theology: Interpretations and Intersections, Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies Vol. 34 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019), 368 pages, ISBN 9789004408364. In volume thirty-four of Brill’s Global Pentecostal and

    August 16, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Paul Elbert: The Lukan Gift of the Holy Spirit

    Paul Elbert: The Lukan Gift of the Holy Spirit

    Paul Elbert, The Lukan Gift of the Holy Spirit: Understanding Luke’s Expectations for Theophilus (Canton, GA: The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship, 2021), pages xv+147, ISBN 9798502689434. Elbert approaches Luke-Acts with two questions: (1) How does Luke expect Theophilus, the reader,

    July 3, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Summer 2023: Other Significant Articles

    Summer 2023: Other Significant Articles

    M. Daniel Carroll Rodas , “Is God Pleased by Our Worship?: For Amos, it depends on whether the God we worship demands justice” Christianity Today (June 12, 2023). “… the prophet makes clear that [Amos’ audience] celebrate a different god, one they might call Yahweh but one who was nevertheless a deity of their own […]

    September 22, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Studies in Acts

    Studies in Acts

    Craig Keener’s book, Between History and Spirit: The Apostolic Witness of the Book of Acts (Cascade, 2020) is available, without cost, for a limited time (September 12-19, 2023) from the publisher. See the announcement from CraigKeener.com.  

    September 13, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Spring 2023: Other Significant Articles

    Spring 2023: Other Significant Articles

    Michael Austin Kamenicky, “The Dangers of Pentecostal Practice: On the Formative and Deformative Potential of Speaking in Tongues” Journal of Pentecostal Theology (February 27, 2023).   Philip Yancey, “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Jimmy Carter” Patheos (March 24, 2023).   John W. Kennedy, “Pentecostal Research 2.0” AGNews (March 29, 2023).   Shaunti Feldhahn, […]

    August 6, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • J. Todd Billings: The End of the Christian Life

    J. Todd Billings: The End of the Christian Life

    J. Todd Billings, The End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us To Truly Live (Brazos, 2020) 239 pages, ISBN 9781587434204. Despite the fact that we, as mere fading mortals, go out of our way to not think about death, great works of art and literature tend to inexplicably draw us into […]

    July 24, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Missions and Grassroots Pentecostalism: an interview with Paul Palma

    Missions and Grassroots Pentecostalism: an interview with Paul Palma

    An interview with Dr. Paul J. Palma about his book, Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States: Migrations, Missions, and Mobility   PneumaReview.com: Will you please introduce us to your newest book? Paul Palma: This book offers an historical and comparative profile of classical Pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view […]

    July 18, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

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    Amos Yong is Professor of Theology & Mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. His graduate education includes degree...

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    Studies in Acts

    Daniel A. Brown, PhD, planted The Coastlands, a church near Santa Cruz, California, serving as Senior Pastor for 22 years. Daniel has authored four books and numerous articles, but h...

    Will I Still Be Me After Death?