Winter 2002
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From the Worship Leader Series
Here’s a quiz: The service is ended. People are milling around and you are putting your equipment away. Suddenly a face appears in front of you with a look of total elation.
“Worship was a-a-a-w-e-s-o-m-e!” they exclaim.
Your answer?
a) “Yes, I knew that ... Read More -
“Now when He heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee” (Matthew 4:12).
This verse is not, as some might think, God incarnate fleeing danger. Rather, it is possible that this was in fulfillment of John’s words about Jesus, “He must increase, ... Read More -
Introduction
Cessationists,1 those who argue that certain gifts of the Spirit have ceased, are increasingly using an argument-from-analogy from Paul’s epistle to the believers in Ephesus.
This paper offers a biblical rebuttal to the cessationist use of Ephesians 2:20 as an argument for the cessation of prophecy, ... Read More -
Jeff King, “Let Us Weep for Zion” Charisma (Aug 2001), pages 58-63, 82.
Journalist Jeff King tells the moving story of how the SS St. Louis, filled with European Jews fleeing the Holocaust, was turned away by the US in 1939. King summarizes a number of ... Read More -
English professor Brian White gives a practical reminder of the empowerment of the Spirit in our day-to-day lives in his article “Pentecost and the Inside-Out Church.”
Messianic teacher Kevin Williams continues his Messianic Foundations Series with the fifth chapter in a mini-series on the Gospel of ... Read More -
James R. Edwards, “A Unity Not of Our Making” Christianity Today (Vol 45, No 10, August 6, 2001), pp. 48-50.
“Unity in Diversity” has become one of the most popular ecumenical catchphrases. Especially among Pentecostal churches, the phrase seems to open up ways to engage in ... Read More -
Daniel A. Brown, What the Bible Reveals About Heaven: Answers to Your Questions (Ventura, CA: Regal, 1999), 239 pages.
I know Dan Brown. He had recently left the staff at Church on the Way when I joined that group sixteen years ago. In the years since ... Read More -
A triple review of books by Robert Menzies and his father William, essay by Grant Hochman.
Robert P. Menzies, The Development Of Early Christian Pneumatology: with special reference to Luke-Acts (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).
Robert P. Menzies, Empowered for Witness: The Spirit in Luke-Acts. Journal ... Read More -
Editor note: Readers are encouraged to join this conversation about strategic-level spiritual warfare, spiritual mapping, and living the Spirit-filled life. Please add your comments under the article.
Satan in the Bible
When dealing with the related doctrines of Satan and demons, it has become almost customary to ... Read More -
It is my pleasure to introduce this start of the fifth volume of the Pneuma Review. The editorial committee and I wish to express our deep gratitude to the Lord and to our readers for your support. By His grace, we will continue to ... Read More -
Amos Yong challenges classical Pentecostals to re-examine what ecumenism really is.
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 ... Read More
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