Fred Sanders, “John Wesley on Experiencing the Trinity” Seedbed (February 10, 2014). J. Lee Grady, “Don’t Let Super-Spiritual People Hurt Your Church” CharismaNews (July 24, 2014). Kenneth J. Archer says, “I think this is fairly accurate and worth reading.” Matthew Schmitz, “How I Evolved on Gay Marriage: On Life’s Tightly Woven Meanings” […]
Philip Jenkins, “The 160-Year Christian History Behind What’s Happening in Ukraine: How we have misunderstood Russia, the Crimean Peninsula, and supposedly secular Europe” Christianity Today (March 5, 2014). Dale M. Coulter, “Pope Francis and the Future of Charismatic Christianity” First Things (Feb 2014). William De Arteaga writes: “A wonderful article of special interest […]
Dale M. Coulter, “The Demons of African Pentecostalism” First Things (Jan 19 2014). http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/01/pentecostals-and-the-demonic Dale M. Coulter, “Evangelicals, Pop Culture, and Mass Culture” First Things (Feb 2014). Monte Lee Rice pointed out this quotation: “by emphasizing the Spirit’s role in creation and redemption evangelical revivalism and its offshoot of the Pentecostal and charismatic […]
Roger Olson, “Election Is for Everyone: However we interpret the controversial doctrine, it’s clear that salvation is never a human achievement” Christianity Today (January/February 2013), pages 40-43. Theology professor Roger Olson reminds all Christians that we believe salvation is never a human achievement, no matter how we express our views on the controversial doctrine of […]
Reviewed by the Editors. Tim Stafford, “Miracles in Mozambique: How Mama Heidi Reaches the Abandoned” Christianity Today (May 2012), pages 18-26. The tag line for the article offers an excellent summary: “There are credible reports that Heidi Baker heals the deaf and raises the dead. One thing is for sure: She loves the […]
Robert C. Crosby, “A New Kind of Pentecostal: It’s no longer just about raising a hand to God. It’s also about reaching out a hand to the needy,” Christianity Today (August 2011), pages 50-54. Southeastern University professor Robert Crosby says that there is an awakening for social concern and whole life transformation among today’s Pentecostals. […]
Jennifer Powell McNutt, “The Enduring Church: Believers in every age worry about the collapse of the faith” Christianity Today (January 2011), pages 44-47. Morality declining? Bad doctrine hurting churches? Others have worried about such things before. What can this tell us about our call to reach our generation? christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/january/29.44.html Craig S. Keener, […]
John W. Kennedy, “Youth with a Passion: In its first 50 years, YWAM has deployed four million workers in 240 countries. Now it sets its sights on 152 remaining unreached people groups” Christianity Today (Dec 2010), pages 40-45. Includes the story of Loren Cunningham’s break with the Assemblies of God to pursue non-denominational ministry, […]
Ajith Fernando, “To Serve Is to Suffer: If the apostle Paul knew fatigue, anger, and anxiety in his ministry, what makes us think we can avoid them in ours?” Christianity Today (August 2010), pages 30-33. Ajith Fernando, Bible teacher from Sri Lanka, prophetically reminds Christian leaders of the West about the forgotten place of […]
Dale M. Coulter, “Pentecostals and Monasticism: A Common Spirituality?” AG Heritage 2010, pages 42-49. Professor Coulter invites us to discover some of the surprising similarities between these two renewal movements. Full issue of AG Heritage: ifphc.org/pdf/Heritage/2010.pdf (updated Mar 10, 2014) W. Rodman MacIlvaine III, “How Churches Become Missional” Bibliotheca Sacra 167 (April-June 2010), pages […]
Ken Walker, “A Legacy of Faith” Charisma (February 2010), pages 24-28, 54. This tribute to Oral Roberts includes numerous sidebars and quotes from numerous Pentecostal/charismatic leaders about his life and ministry. http://www.charismamag.com/site-archives/947-exclusive-content/tribute/8383-oral-roberts-tribute-christian-leaders-remember [link updated May 13, 2014] Organic Church Mark Galli, “Long Live Organic Church!: But what do we do if the world […]
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 away from his day job, Charisma editor […]
Milton Acosta, “Power Pentecostalisms: The ‘non-Catholic’ Latin American church is going full steam ahead—but are we on the right track?” Christianity Today (August 2009), pages 40-42. The capacity of Latino Pentecostalism to bring hope and even initiate a new form of democracy is an unmeasured potential, but their independence and neo-Pentecostalism has no instrument for […]
Philip Jenkins, “Unenthusiastic About Enthusiasm: Modern suspicions about charismatic Christianity trace back to controversies over the French Prophets 300 years ago” (ChristianHistory.net). Speaking in tongues, the sick being healed, the dead raised to life, the soon coming apocalypse … in 1709. Read the article online at: www.christianitytoday.com/ch/bytopic/movementsdenominationstraditions/unenthusiasticabout.html Bruce Hindmarsh, “And Can It Be?: Charles […]
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