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Why I Took Time to Respond to John MacArthur’s Strange Fire

by Frank Viola

Someone has asked me, “Why waste your time on responding to MacArthur’s writings against the charismatics?”

When I was in my 20s, I wrote a critique of John MacArthur’s Charismatic Chaos because a brother in the Lord broke fellowship with me and my friends after reading ...

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Muslims Tell "Why I Chose Jesus?"

“Muslims Tell ‘Why I Chose Jesus’” by J. Dudley Woodberry and Russell G. Shubin. Mission Frontiers (March 2001). Pp. 28-33.

Woodberry and Shubin have compiled a number of testimonies of Muslims coming to faith in Jesus as Messiah, thereby reminding all of us of the life-changing power of the gospel. It is no secret that people living in Muslim ...

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Strange Fire and Churches of Christ

By Guest Panelist Jonathan Storment. |

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” -C.S. Lewis

Maybe you’ve noticed that over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of talk around charismatic vs. not charismatic protestant Christians. Some people held a conference, and John MacArthur ...

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Worldviews in Conflict: Christian Cosmology and the Recent Doctrine of Spiritual Mapping (Part 1)

Editor’s Introduction to Worldviews in Conflict Welcome to the Dialogue

It is my privilege to introduce this paper by Larry Taylor and a dialogue about a practice many have embraced without first weighing the theological consequences.

Our subject is the teaching of spiritual mapping, identifying and expelling territorial demonic forces. This teaching has not been extensively challenged ...

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Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: Past, Present, and Future (Part 5 of 5)

Amos Yong

Amos Yong challenges classical Pentecostals to re-examine what ecumenism really is. As appearing in the Pneuma Review Winter 2002

V. Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: Future Prospects and Tasks My conclusion is that Pentecostals need the larger Church even as the larger Church needs Pentecostalism. Thus, the quest for a biblically based and Spirit inspired Christian unity must ...

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Giving Thanks Turns Tragedy into Triumph

Giving Thanks Turns Tragedy into Triumph

by Pastor Mur

Most of us have heard the scripture that states “God so loved the world…” This means that God loves each of us. God loves you no matter where you are or what the circumstances of life that you may face.

I have a friend ...

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A Crown

A Crown

As appearing in the Pneuma Review Fall 2001

I served as a mediator the other day. I have mediated many disputes over the past ten or fifteen years, but the last one was different than all the others. It involved a dispute between four Christian businessmen who had dissolved their partnership and in so doing had become deeply divided. To ...

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Healthy Church Apostles: Every local church should have a healthy apostolic covering in order to be effective beyond its four walls

Healthy Church Apostles: Every local church should have a healthy apostolic covering in order to be effective beyond its four walls

“Healthy Church Apostles: Every local church should have a healthy apostolic covering in order to be effective beyond its four walls” by John Kelley with Paul Costa. Ministries Today (May/June 2001). Pp. 53-56.

He was young in the Lord; rash and impulsive. He was also a born communicator, and immediately went out preaching and teaching, unencumbered by such banalities ...

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