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Apocalyptic literature, a double review by Amos Yong

Apocalyptic literature, a double review by Amos Yong

Frederick J. Murphy, Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World: A Comprehensive Introduction (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), xviii + 429 pages. Bruce Chilton, Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of John’s Revelation in Western Imagination (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2013). vi + 169 pages. These two books are very different – length-wise, style, and scope – but they will …

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Getting Your Church Unstuck From Growth Hindrances

Getting Your Church Unstuck From Growth Hindrances

Pastor Dan Brown offers practical suggestions for taking your church to the next level of significance. Most of us have been stuck somewhere, somehow—in the desert sand off the main road; up a tree we climbed in our pre-adolescence; or, on a tricky algebra problem. But somehow, someway we got unstuck. When our tires spun uselessly in the sand, we …

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In Your Face

In Your Face

Reflecting on Pentecostal roots and obnoxious witnessing. When Grant Wacker's Heaven Below was first published, I read it and had hoped to write a review of the book. Although this really is not a review of Wacker's book, reading it did bring some things to my mind. Wacker had unquestionably researched our roots more deeply than any other author with …

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Believe in Miracles, But Follow Jesus

Believe in Miracles, But Follow Jesus

Bible teacher Eddie Hyatt briefly looks at the unhealthy emphasis some place on supernatural signs and wonders. He challenges us to "Follow Jesus and let the signs follow you." Image: Greg Rakozy If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes …

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