Spring 2010

• Greg Heisler: Spirit-Led Preaching

    Greg Heisler, Spirit-Led Preaching: the Holy Spirit’s Role in Sermon Preparation and Delivery (Nashville: B & H Academic, 2007), 156 pages, ISBN 9780805443882. Every Pentecostal minister should read this book. We Pentecostals agree strongly with Heisler when he says that the anointing of the Holy Spirit ... Read More

• Blaine Allen: When People Throw Stones

    Blaine Allen, When People Throw Stones: A Leader’s Guide to Fielding Personal Criticism (Kregel, 2005), 176 pages, ISBN 978-0825420146. Blaine Allen’s book, When People Throw Stones, is important and necessary. The ugly truth is that Christian service has downsides. All too often, the chief downside is ... Read More

• Shepherds and Sheepdogs

    Charles Carrin draws out a biblical analogy full of tested and practical wisdom.   Every shepherd needs a sheepdog. Knowing this, God sends them. Some shepherds cannot tell the difference between a sheepdog and a wolf and chase the dogs away. The loss to the shepherd and ... Read More

• Spring 2010: Other Significant Articles

  Reviewed by the editors. Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “‘A Voice for Sanity’: J. Lee Grady doesn’t want your gold. The journalist wants a ‘Holy Ghost housecleaning’ of the charismatic movement” Christianity Today (Nov 2009), pages 42-45. ChristianityToday.com/ct/2009/November/33.42.html See also the online-only article: Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Modern-Day Mordecai: When he’s ... Read More

• Dieter Ising: Johann Christoph Blumhardt

    Dieter Ising, Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work: A New Biography (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009), 491 pages, ISBN 9781606085394. Ising’s scholarship makes the ministries, German-language correspondences, and theological contributions of Johann Christoph Blumhardt accessible to the non-academic English reader. In regard to twenty-first ... Read More

• Phyllis Tickle: The Great Emergence

  Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008), 173 pages, ISBN 9780801013133. Chances are you have heard of Phyllis Tickle. As the founder of the religion department of Publishers Weekly, the author of at least two dozen books, and ... Read More

• Paradigm for Pentecostal Preaching

  What are the marks of biblical and Spirit-filled preaching? Read More

• A Science and Religion Primer

  Heidi A. Campbell and Heather Looy, eds., A Science and Religion Primer (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), 230 pages, ISBN 9780801031502. Read the title carefully! This book is a “primer.” In the publishing world, that means “a short introduction to a subject.” In this case, the ... Read More

• Jennifer Cisney: Healing From the Pain of Sexual Assault

  Sexual assault is a widespread problem. Why is the church so reluctant to address it? Read More

• Keith Warrington: Healing & Suffering

  Should believers ever be ill? Is it biblical to “claim” one’s healing? Why do so many remain ill after prayer for healing? What are the gifts of healing? Did Jesus provide physical healing for believers when he died on the cross? Read More

• William Tabbernee: Prophets and Gravestones

  William Tabbernee, Prophets and Gravestones: An Imaginative History of Montanists and Other Early Christians (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2009), 385 pages, ISBN 9781565639379. The Montanists were an important early Christian movement that began in Asia Minor during the late second century. They were essentially a charismatic upstart group, ... Read More

• Coming in the Summer 2010 (13:3) Issue

  “How should we lead the local church?” The Pneuma Review has approached numerous church leaders and bible teachers to answer the question: “How should we lead the local church?” The Summer 2010 issue will launch the dialog with a series of articles representing diverse perspectives, beginning ... Read More

• Matthew Elliott: Faithful Feelings

  Faithful Feelings focuses on reading the New Testament as to its emotional content on the part of the writers and on the part of the recipients. Read More