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Spirit (more)
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November 24, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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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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Living the Faith (more)
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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 thatMarch 5, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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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 threeFebruary 2, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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Ministry (more)
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A Pentecostal Perspective on Healing from Sexual Violence: An interview with Pamela F. Engelbert
Introduction from the Publisher: #MeToo. #ChurchToo. #pentecostalsisterstoo. Since 2018, hashtags and stories of sexual violence have appeared in all sectors of life from Hollywood to the Olympics; from politics to religion; from universities to seminaries; and among pentecostals. But amidJanuary 26, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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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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Church History (more)
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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
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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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Biblical Studies (more)
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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 GodFebruary 9, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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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 atJanuary 20, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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In Depth (more)
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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 underDecember 15, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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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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Other Recent Articles
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The Price of Freedom: A Chaplain’s Experience
It happened on Thursday, July 4th, 2002, on that antiquated, post-Civil War Cavalry post—Camp Sturgis, built in 1878, east of Sturgis, South Dakota. It ceased to be an active-duty post in 1944. It was like a ghost town. The ancient parade fields were still there just as they looked in 1878, lined with the original […]
July 4, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Spring 2025: Other Significant Articles
Myles Werntz, “You Don’t Need a Rule of Life: What you need is a church” Christianity Today (October 10, 2024). Paraclete journal now available online The Consortium of Pentecostal Archives has made the quarterly journal gratis available online. Paraclete (1967-1995) was a journal of practical theology for Assemblies of God pastors (replaced by […]
June 23, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robin M. Jensen: From Idols to Icons
Robin M. Jensen, From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity, Christianity in Late Antiquity 12 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), 252 pages, ISBN 9780520345423. Depending on what Christian tradition one finds oneself in, the question of Christian art is a difficult and delicate topic. Are we permitted […]
June 16, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Elle Hardy: Beyond Belief
Elle Hardy, Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World (London: Hurst, 2021), 328 pages, ISBN 9781787385535. Beyond Belief It is a, fascinating, extensively researched, encouraging, insightful (but sometimes exasperating) description of the expansion of the worldwide Pentecostal/charismatic churches. For the American Spirit-filled believer, it is also an important source for understanding of […]
June 6, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Tim Tschida: The Garden of Scripture, Illusions and Fullness
Read Introduction to The Garden of Scripture Read A Storm of Perfection The Garden of Scripture Illusions and Fullness An enchanted Christian social imaginary will involve revisiting what it means to be human and the nature of the divine–human relationship.[1] —Cheryl Bridges Johns I am a fan of the ocean, particularly the northeast Atlantic, […]
May 16, 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 of praise and portion of my lips. I will sing with knowledge; all my music shall […]
April 21, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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MP3, Oral Learners and Christian Mission
Pastor Ojoli Moses takes Proclaimer MP3 players throughout rural Uganda. Cybermissions funds this outreach ministry. Most of those Pastor Ojoli Moses speaks to are partially literate, they are not comfortable with reading and writing, but they love listening, They are oral learners! Solar-powered MP3 players, radio, podcasts and downloadable audio files (for mobile phones) are […]
April 14, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Anna Ladd Bartleman: Searching for the Whole Picture
Join historian, researcher, educator, and revivalist, Dr. Dony Donev on his journey to find a photograph of a mother of the early Pentecostal movement. This article was presented as a paper at the Society of Pentecostal Studies annual convention in March 2025. The uncertainty in defining Anna Bartleman’s role as a minister, comes with the […]
April 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Winter 2025: Other Significant Articles
Dony Donev, “Day 175 of the Revival” Cup & Cross (February 1, 2025). This reflection by PneumaReview.com author Dony Donev has been placed alongside his “Reflections on a 200-day Revival” about what he saw God doing in his homeland, Bulgaria, and the USA in year 2024 and beyond. Abby Trivett, “11 Colleges That Experienced […]
April 1, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Charismatic Leaders Fellowship 2025
The 2025 Charismatic Leaders Fellowship Conference (CLF) met again at the Alleluia Christian School in Augusta, Georgia, on February 17-20. The CLF originated over 50 years ago as a fellowship of charismatic and Pentecostal leaders concerned with keeping the Charismatic Renewal within the bounds of biblical orthodoxy and practice. One of the original concerns was […]
March 11, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Tim Tschida: The Garden of Scripture, A Storm of Perfection
Read Introduction to The Garden of Scripture The Garden of Scripture A Storm of Perfection Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. —Saint Gregory of Nyssa Growing up in Minnesota, experiencing thunderstorms was common. I can genuinely say that […]
March 3, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Tim Tschida: The Garden of Scripture, Introduction
The Garden of Scripture Introduction What do you think of when you hear the word Bible? Do you think of flamboyant televangelists? Do politicians courting a voting block primarily come to mind? Do images of well-meaning aunts who post “biblical warnings” on social media that accompany horrendous art dance through your brain? Or maybe […]
February 28, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

