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Spirit (more)
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June 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Ready to be the Voice of God, with Tania Harris
Ready to be the Voice of God, with Tania Harris Interview with Rev. Dr. Tania Harris about her new book, God Dreams: How to Hear God’s Voice in Dreams and Vision PneumaReview.com: You have recently published a new bookNovember 18, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Living the Faith (more)
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Love Is Not Rude!
A Bible teacher’s take on the current crisis of Christian manners This article disputes the idea that it is ok for Christians to be rude. Bad manners are not trivial. Rudeness is hurtful to believers and a poor witnessAugust 4, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Igniting Faith
We know what a pilot light is in a fireplace or stove. It is the little blue flame that provides the gas to catch fire. As a Christian, the Holy Spirit is always with us, so today, I encourage you to stayJuly 29, 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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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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New Archives Dedicated to Italian Pentecostal Movement Opens in Brazil
LONDRINA, BRAZIL – June 15, 2025 – A significant new historical resource, the Itamar Coutinho Archives, officially opened its doors today at the Instituto Meditafé in Londrina, Brazil. This archive, established through a permanent loan from Itamar Coutinho, is dedicatedJuly 21, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Biblical Studies (more)
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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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Three Books I am Excited About
I want to introduce to you three books that have just been published. I am excited about these books because I feel that each one, in a unique way, will make a significant contribution to the global church. GlenAugust 25, 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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Dean Merrill: 50 Pentecostal and Charismatic Leaders Every Christian Should Know
Dean Merrill, 50 Pentecostal and Charismatic Leaders Every Christian Should Know (Bloomington, MN: Chosen Books, 2021), 288 pages, ISBN 9780800762025. Dean Merrill is a prolific writer. He has written a number of books including, Miracle Invasion which was published in 2018. He has also collaborated with others like Jim Cymbala and Gracia Burnham to help […]
March 27, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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From the 2021 Camps Farthest Out
On the Mountain with the Lord and His People. From June 27 to July 3, 2021, I had the joy of attending a CFO retreat at Shrine Mont, in the foothills of the Great North Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a beautiful location. The CFOs (Camps Farthest Out) were established by Professor Glenn […]
March 24, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Matthew King: I Will Abolish The Bow
Matthew A. King, I Will Abolish The Bow: Christianity, Personhood, and the End of Animal Exploitation (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021), ix-131 pages, ISBN 9781666700275. Matthew A. King is the cofounder and president of the Christian Animal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to ending animal cruelty and exploitation. King believes that Christianity’s historic support […]
March 21, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robert Menzies: Christ-Centered
Robert P. Menzies, Christ-Centered: The Evangelical Nature of Pentecostal Theology (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2020), 166 pages, ISBN 9781725267824. A few years ago, I was having lunch with a good friend, the editor-in-chief of a flagship evangelical magazine. I knew him well enough to raise a question: “Tell me something: Why do your articles regularly […]
March 18, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Defending Apologetics: a review
Why does God use fallen, broken people to speak for him? A review essay by Timothy T. N. Lim about Os Guinness’ 2015 book, Fool’s Talk, and how followers of Jesus can and should talk about God in the public square. Introduction How can the vocation and the craft of Christian apologists be reclaimed after decades […]
March 15, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Eddie Hyatt: Prophets and Prophecy
Eddie L. Hyatt, Prophets and Prophecy: Timely Insights from the Bible, History, and My Experience (Grapevine, TX: Hyatt Press, 2021), 126 pages, ISBN 9781888435634. Dr. Eddie Hyatt is a veteran in the Pentecostal Movement. He has written previously about the subject of spiritual gifts in his book 2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity. In Prophets and […]
March 12, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Good News for Body and Soul
Christian historian Woodrow Walton continues his series on how the good news of what Jesus had done has spread around the world. In Part 4, we read how his followers made the love of God more real in England and the USA as they immersed themselves in charitable work. The Great Commission was being realized […]
March 9, 2022 | 0 comments | View Post
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Updated: Coming Soon
New server to bring PneumaReview.com up to date. Volunteers are currently preparing a new server to make PneumaReview.com more user-friendly, have faster loading speeds, and ready for future updates. Because we have not been able to publish articles on both servers at the same time, our backlog of ready-to-publish reviews and featured articles will be […]
June 26, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post
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Misreading Scripture With Individualist Eyes: Patronage, Honor, and Shame In The Biblical World
E. Randolph Richards and Richard James, Misreading Scripture With Individualist Eyes: Patronage, Honor, and Shame In The Biblical World (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020), 304 pages, ISBN 9780830852758. This is the second “misreading” book that E. Randolph Richards has written. The first one was Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes which he wrote with Brandon […]
May 24, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post
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Celebrate the Holy Spirit
We celebrate Pentecost Sunday when Jesus poured out his Spirit on his disciples and the Church began. Recent articles and reviews about the contemporary ministry of the Holy Spirit Spirit-Empowered Christianity What does Spirit-empowered Christianity look like around the world? Pneuma Review speaks with Todd M. Johnson and Gina A. Zurlo, directors of the […]
May 23, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post
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Iran Transformed: An interview with Hormoz Shariat
Hormoz Shariat firmly believes that Iran will be the first Islamic nation that turns to Christ. He says it is ready for a major transformation—spiritually, socially, financially, and politically, and that it will be a Christian nation soon, as prophesied in Jeremiah 49:38. PneumaReview.com spoke with Dr. Shariat about how he came to Jesus, what […]
May 18, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post
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Gary Tyra: The Dark Side of Discipleship
Gary Tyra, The Dark Side of Discipleship: Why and How the New Testament Encourages Christians to Deal With the Devil (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020), 330 pages, ISBN 9781532691218. Dr. Gary Tyra has served in pastoral ministry and is currently a professor at Vanguard University where he teaches theology courses. He is also the author of […]
May 12, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post
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Russ Turney: Leave a Legacy
Russ Turney, Leave a Legacy: Increasing Missionary Longevity (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2017), 124 pages, ISBN 978-1498294812 . Dr. Russ Turney and his wife, Patsy, served for a number of years as missionaries in Asia. He eventually became the Regional Director of the Asia Pacific Region of the Assemblies of God World Missions. One of […]
May 8, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post
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God, Nimrod, and the World: Exploring Christian Perspectives on Sport Hunting
Bracy V. Hill, II, and John B. White, God, Nimrod, and the World: Exploring Christian Perspectives on Sport Hunting (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2017), ix-431 pages with index. In our urban-dominated landscape, hunting, particularly sport hunting, has increasingly been viewed as a remnant of a barbaric era that is no longer needed and should […]
May 5, 2021 | 0 comments | View Post