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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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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 Charismatic Studies, editors Peter Hocken, Tony L. Richie, and Christopher Stephenson spearhead a collection of […]
August 16, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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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, to one degree or another, answer yes to these questions. In this free preview of […]
August 10, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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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
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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 Alphacrucis University College. It is based on her doctoral research, but it is also informed […]
August 2, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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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
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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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Paul Palma: Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States
Paul J. Palma, Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States: Migrations, Missions, and Mobility (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) 417 pages, ISBN 9783031133701. In Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States: Migrations, Missions, and Mobility, Dr. Paul J. Palma presents a history of the major Pentecostal movements in Brazil, beginning with how immigrants to the […]
July 13, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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John R. Levison: The Holy Spirit before Christianity
John R. Levison, The Holy Spirit before Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2019) The book consists of Acknowledgments, five chapters, thirteen excurses, varied notes, selected bibliography, and detailed indexes of subjects, ancient names, modern authors and ancient sources. Chapter titles include: “The Emergence of the Spirit: Recasting Exodus”, “The Essence of the Spirit: Retelling Exodus”, “The […]
July 10, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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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, to read his two-volume work (Luke-Acts)? and (2) How does Luke expect him to respond […]
July 3, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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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. […]
June 26, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Charismatic Leaders Fellowship 2023
The 2023 Charismatic Leaders Fellowship was held at the Alleluia covenant community in Augusta, Georgia, on February 20-23. That location has now become standard, as the families that make up this Christian community host us graciously with bed and breakfast at no cost. Charismatic leaders who have never attended the CLF should come if only […]
June 20, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robert Menzies: Is the Chinese Church Predominantly Pentecostal? Part 3: Gaining Perspective
Is the Church in China Predominantly Pentecostal? Part 3: Gaining Perspective: A Contextual Assessment The strong Pentecostal orientation of the Church in China is striking, but it should not surprise us. In fact, when the recent revival of Christianity in China is viewed against the backdrop of its historical, global, and sociological contexts, this […]
June 12, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robert Menzies: Is the Chinese Church Predominantly Pentecostal? Part 1: Introduction
Is the Church in China Predominantly Pentecostal? Part 1: Introduction By Robert P. Menzies The Wind of the Holy Spirit Will Blow Everywhere From the East coast to the West coast/ The wind of the Holy Spirit will blow everywhere/ From the East to the West/ The glory of the Holy Spirit will be released/ […]
June 1, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robert Menzies: Is the Chinese Church Predominantly Pentecostal? Author’s Preface
Author’s Preface: “Is the Church in China Predominantly Pentecostal? An Answer from the ‘Golden Years’ of the Chinese House Church Movement” By Robert P. Menzies The essays that follow are not descriptions of the current state of the church in China.[1] Rather, they represent a slice of Chinese church history, albeit an important slice. Dr. […]
May 30, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post

