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  • Revealing the Unseen Realm

    Revealing the Unseen Realm

    Michael Heiser’s The Unseen Realm (2015) has generated significant interest in evangelical and broadly biblical-theological circles for its claim to recover a neglected “divine council” worldview as the organizing framework for reading Scripture. This review essay by Rick Wadholm Jr argues that Heiser’s project, while erudite and stimulating in its Ancient Near Eastern scholarship, erects a maximalist theological superstructure on a textual and hermeneutical foundation that will not bear the weight placed upon it.

  • Veli-Matti Karkkainen: Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World

    Veli-Matti Karkkainen: Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World

    All five volumes of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s series, A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, were reviewed by Stephen M. Vantassel. From the publisher: Kärkkäinen’s Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World is a five-volume project that aims to develop a new approach to and method of doing Christian theology in our pluralistic world at […]

  • Meditations on Holy Week

    Meditations on Holy Week

    Greetings with Jesus’ joy! I hope your week has been wonderful. This week holds special significance as we delve into the theological meaning of Holy Week, which is central to the Christian faith. Jesus endured suffering, died, and triumphed over death! I want to share some insights from my devotions this week. Each day, I […]

  • Presence Is a Verb

    Presence Is a Verb

    Presence Is a Verb—a State of Being and an Action The woman abruptly arose from the Sunday dinner table and accusingly spoke to her husband, “You wouldn’t care if I drowned in the waterhole.” She then turned and walked out the door. It had been a typical Sunday for the sixteen-year-old girl. The Pentecostal family […]

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  • Wolfgang Vondey: The Scandal of Pentecost

    Wolfgang Vondey: The Scandal of Pentecost

    Wolfgang Vondey, The Scandal of Pentecost: A Theology of the Public Church (New York: T&T Clark, 2024), 269 pages, ISBN 9780567712646. Here is a book that lingers in the mind like an unresolved chord. In the cacophony of modern theology,

    November 24, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Pentecost Makeover

    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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  • How Pentecostals Listen to God

    How Pentecostals Listen to God

    Educator, author, and pastor Pamela Engelbert shares a story of healing in this excerpt from her book See My Body, See Me. Jade taught me how pentecostals listen to and wait on God. She spoke of a repeated mystical experience that

    March 5, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Paul Hattaway: Fujian: The Blessed Province

    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

  • How One Man's Secret Bible Mission Became a Global Lifeline

    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 year

    July 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Amy Peeler: Women and the Gender of God

    Amy Peeler: Women and the Gender of God

    Amy Peeler, Women and the Gender of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022), xi + 274 pages, ISBN 9780802879097. In this work, Amy Peeler presents a robust reading of the New Testament incarnation narratives, arguing for a view of God

    February 9, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Veli-Matti Karkkainen: I Believe. Help My Unbelief!

    Veli-Matti Karkkainen: I Believe. Help My Unbelief!

    Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, I Believe. Help My Unbelief! Christian Beliefs for a Religiously Pluralistic and Secular World (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024), 456 pages, ISBN 9781725276673. There is a certain honesty in the title I Believe. Help My Unbelief! that immediately signals both the

    April 13, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Winter 2026: Other Significant Articles

    Winter 2026: Other Significant Articles

    Jeremy Writebol, “Gen Z Is More Than Just Anxious: What the church gets wrong—and what it can get right—about forming a generation shaped by screens and longing for purpose” CT Pastors (September 8, 2025).    Craig S. Keener, “Apostles Today” YouTube (October 18, 2025). Pastor John Lathrop says: “At the link you can hear Dr. […]

    March 24, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Doing History the Biblical Way: Reflections from a Patriotic Baby Boomer

    Doing History the Biblical Way: Reflections from a Patriotic Baby Boomer

    Ken Burns’ six-part, 12-hour PBS miniseries The American Revolution (premiered November 16, 2025) has received praise from most critics for its detailed presentation of the American Revolution, especially for its nuanced portrayal of it as a civil war involving three diverse groups: Indians, Loyalists, and Patriots. It has also drawn criticisms from conservative commentators, historians, […]

    February 2, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

  • John H Walton and J Harvey Walton: Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology

    John H Walton and J Harvey Walton: Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology

    John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton, Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology: Reading the Biblical Text in Its Cultural and Literary Context (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019), 348 pages, ISBN 9781625648259. John H. Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College (at the time of publication), teams with his son J. Harvey Walton to […]

    January 20, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Joseph Lee Dutko: The Pentecostal Gender Paradox

    Joseph Lee Dutko: The Pentecostal Gender Paradox

    Joseph Lee Dutko, The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: Eschatology and the Search for Equality (London: T&T Clark, 2024), 297 pages. “Women can be ordained and preach, but they are not permitted to teach theology.” These were the instructions I heard in a Pastoral Epistles class during my junior year at an Assemblies of God Bible college. […]

    January 16, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Fall 2025: Other Significant Articles

    Fall 2025: Other Significant Articles

    In case you missed it: Janet Epp Buckingham, “Ban the Mob, Not the Bible: Christians are the victims of hate in some places and the targets of hate speech laws in others. How can believers advocate for nations to address both threats in a consistent, principled way?” Christianity Today (June 6, 2024).   Dony Donev, […]

    December 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Josiah Baker: A Visible Unity

    Josiah Baker: A Visible Unity

    Josiah Baker, A Visible Unity: Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism (Lanham: Fortress Academic, 2024), 278 pages, ISBN 9781978717206. A Visible Unity: Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism is a revised version of Josiah Baker’s dissertation, written under the supervision of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen at Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Advanced Theological Studies. In […]

    December 15, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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