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Spirit (more)
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November 24, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Pentecost Makeover
“After the Holy Spirit is come upon you…” Acts 1:8 You’ve seen it before … an old house that goes through an extreme makeover—It’s like a brand new home! The attraction is the compelling contrast between life before and life after. Consider, then,June 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Living the Faith (more)
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An Angel Saved My Life
It was an ordinary day and a familiar drive. I was in the very back of Mother’s 1959 Dodge Sierra station wagon observing the familiar sights that we routinely passed when we headed toward Naval Air Station Charleston. I wasOctober 20, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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We Are United in Messiah
When we talk about our identity in Jesus, we often use terms that are singular and individualistic. “I am a child of God.” “My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and I am a member of theOctober 13, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Ministry (more)
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Preaching Points: 55 Tips for Improving Your Pulpit Ministry
Scott M. Gibson, ed., Preaching Points: 55 Tips for Improving Your Pulpit Ministry (Bellingham: Washington, Lexham Press, 2016), 123 pages, ISBN 9781683592082. No matter how many homiletic courses taken and sermons delivered, preachers are always looking to improve their sermons.September 15, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Pentecostal Encounters with Suffering: an interview with Pamela F. Engelbert
From the publisher: What transpires when Classical Pentecostals pray for God to intervene amidst their suffering, but God does not? Traditionally, Classical Pentecostals center on encountering God as demonstrated through the relating of testimonies of their experiences with God. InSeptember 2, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Church History (more)
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Paul Hattaway: Fujian: The Blessed Province
Paul Hattaway, Fujian: The Blessed Province (United Kingdom: Langham Global Library, 2025), 368 pages. ISBN-10:1786411326, ISBN-13:978-1786411327 This book is the latest release in Paul Hattaway’s “China Chronicles” series. Each book is published not only in English but also in Chinese,December 1, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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How One Man’s Secret Bible Mission Became a Global Lifeline
A Dutch man’s dangerous journey in 1955 – as told in God’s Smuggler – sparked seven decades of comprehensive support for the world’s most persecuted Christians Global ministry celebrates 70 years: In 1955, Brother Andrew began a work that this yearJuly 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Biblical Studies (more)
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In the Midst: Biblical Hope and Suffering, an interview with Craig Keener
PneumaReview.com: What led you to write a book on the subject of suffering? Craig Keener: Seeing what dominates our culture’s interests reinforced my feeling that the church in the U.S. is largely unprepared for suffering. Although the Bible talks aNovember 11, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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A Sober Word to the Charismatic Movement: an interview with Frank Viola
Raul Mock of The Pneuma Review recently interviewed bestselling author Frank Viola about his new book The Untold Story of the New Testament Church (2025) with Foreword by Craig Keener. Raul Mock: For PneumaReview.com readers that have not yetSeptember 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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In Depth (more)
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Lee Barrett: T&T Clark Reader in Kierkegaard as Theologian
Lee Barrett, ed., T&T Clark Reader in Kierkegaard as Theologian (T&T Clark, 2018; New York: Bloomsbury, 2018), 285 pages, ISBN 9780567670380. He has been called a boring windbag who “…deliberately sets out to be tortuous.”[1] Philip Yancy acknowledges that atMay 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Torleif Elgvin: My Lips Play Flute for the Highest
Torleif Elgvin, My Lips Play Flute for the Highest: Jewish Hymns and Prayers before Jesus (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2024), 225 pages, ISBN 9781666770018. “His engraved precepts shall be on my tongue as long as I live, as the fruit ofApril 21, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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Igniting Faith
We know what a pilot light is in a fireplace or stove. It is the little blue flame that provides the gas to catch fire. As a Christian, the Holy Spirit is always with us, so today, I encourage you to stay plugged into your relationship with God the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit is a pilot […]
July 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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New Archives Dedicated to Italian Pentecostal Movement Opens in Brazil
LONDRINA, BRAZIL – June 15, 2025 – A significant new historical resource, the Itamar Coutinho Archives, officially opened its doors today at the Instituto Meditafé in Londrina, Brazil. This archive, established through a permanent loan from Itamar Coutinho, is dedicated to preserving and making accessible materials related to the global denominations and groups that originated […]
July 21, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Michael Plekon: Ministry Matters
Michael Plekon, Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Life and Work Today (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024), 173 pages, ISBN 9781666789959. “Congregations are shrinking and in decline in the United States and elsewhere” (xiii). Michael Plekon (Emeritus Professor of Baruch College), begins the introduction to his new book, Ministry Matters, with this matter-of-fact statement, not to frighten […]
July 18, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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The Price of Freedom: A Chaplain’s Experience
It happened on Thursday, July 4th, 2002, on that antiquated, post-Civil War Cavalry post—Camp Sturgis, built in 1878, east of Sturgis, South Dakota. It ceased to be an active-duty post in 1944. It was like a ghost town. The ancient parade fields were still there just as they looked in 1878, lined with the original […]
July 4, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Spring 2025: Other Significant Articles
Myles Werntz, “You Don’t Need a Rule of Life: What you need is a church” Christianity Today (October 10, 2024). Paraclete journal now available online The Consortium of Pentecostal Archives has made the quarterly journal gratis available online. Paraclete (1967-1995) was a journal of practical theology for Assemblies of God pastors (replaced by […]
June 23, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robin M. Jensen: From Idols to Icons
Robin M. Jensen, From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity, Christianity in Late Antiquity 12 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), 252 pages, ISBN 9780520345423. Depending on what Christian tradition one finds oneself in, the question of Christian art is a difficult and delicate topic. Are we permitted […]
June 16, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Elle Hardy: Beyond Belief
Elle Hardy, Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World (London: Hurst, 2021), 328 pages, ISBN 9781787385535. Beyond Belief It is a, fascinating, extensively researched, encouraging, insightful (but sometimes exasperating) description of the expansion of the worldwide Pentecostal/charismatic churches. For the American Spirit-filled believer, it is also an important source for understanding of […]
June 6, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Tim Tschida: The Garden of Scripture, Illusions and Fullness
Read Introduction to The Garden of Scripture Read A Storm of Perfection The Garden of Scripture Illusions and Fullness An enchanted Christian social imaginary will involve revisiting what it means to be human and the nature of the divine–human relationship.[1] —Cheryl Bridges Johns I am a fan of the ocean, particularly the northeast Atlantic, […]
May 16, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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MP3, Oral Learners and Christian Mission
Pastor Ojoli Moses takes Proclaimer MP3 players throughout rural Uganda. Cybermissions funds this outreach ministry. Most of those Pastor Ojoli Moses speaks to are partially literate, they are not comfortable with reading and writing, but they love listening, They are oral learners! Solar-powered MP3 players, radio, podcasts and downloadable audio files (for mobile phones) are […]
April 14, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Anna Ladd Bartleman: Searching for the Whole Picture
Join historian, researcher, educator, and revivalist, Dr. Dony Donev on his journey to find a photograph of a mother of the early Pentecostal movement. This article was presented as a paper at the Society of Pentecostal Studies annual convention in March 2025. The uncertainty in defining Anna Bartleman’s role as a minister, comes with the […]
April 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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