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Spirit (more)
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November 25, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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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
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Living the Faith (more)
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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 overMarch 29, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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One-Sentence Sermons, compiled by Charles Carrin
Over the years I have collected bits of wisdom from different sources. I share a few of them with you. When known, authors are named. “There are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann WolfgangMarch 27, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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Ministry (more)
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Jackie Pullinger at Harvard
This year from March 26th through March 29th a gathering called Faith & Veritas 2026 was held at Harvard University. The official website for this conference (https://faithandveritas.law.harvard.edu/) says that the participants in this conference include: “Harvard alumni, faculty, chaplains, andMay 11, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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Baptists and Charismatics: How Wide Is the Divide?
In a time when division seems to define both culture and the church, it is worth asking a simple question: how wide is the divide between Baptists and Charismatics, really? The answer may surprise us. Despite long-standing stereotypes and theologicalApril 27, 2026 | 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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Tongues and Other Miraculous Gifts in the Second Through Nineteenth Centuries
In this five part series, Richard M. Riss presents evidence for the operation of the gifts of the Spirit throughout the Church Age. Part 1 (Fall 1998): From the Early Church to the 3rd Century Part 2 (Winter 1999):October 23, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Biblical Studies (more)
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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 JrApril 20, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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James Sire: Praying the Psalms of Jesus
James W. Sire, Praying the Psalms of Jesus (Downers Grove: IVP, 2007), 222 pages. James W. Sire (Ph.D., University of Missouri), formerly a senior editor at InterVarsity Press, is a frequent guest lecturer at colleges and universities in the UnitedMarch 13, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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In Depth (more)
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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 theApril 13, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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The End of an Era? Does Skopos Theory Spell the End of the “Free vs. Literal” Paradigm?
Introduction While most discussion of Bible translations take place around the traditional “free vs. literal” debate, modern, non-Biblical translation theory has become suspicious of such easy dichotomies (e.g. Pym 1997: 39). Many translation scholars now tend to examine translations basedApril 12, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post
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Other Recent Articles
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Reflecting on Contextualization
I’ve been thinking on the need for contextualization for Christians that seek the unity of the Spirit, as we all should. I’ve been reflecting on how we can be more effective as followers of Jesus as we seek, live, and share God’s kingdom with grace. For many of us, our public square and our parish […]
August 21, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Word & Spirit Commentaries: interview with Holly Beers and Craig Keener
PneumaReview.com: If you were sitting down for a cup of coffee with a church leader for the first time, how would you introduce yourself and the work you do? Holly Beers and Craig Keener: We love the Bible, and at heart we want to understand it well and help others understand it also. That’s how […]
August 11, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice
Thomas G. Long and Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, eds., Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice: A New Approach to Homiletical Pedagogy (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). I enjoyed reading this book. It is written for teachers of homiletics, but pastors would also benefit from reading it. It is written by some of the leading homileticians […]
August 11, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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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 witness to the world. I am not talking about ordinary believers who are having a bad […]
August 4, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Jesus’ Model of Discipleship
A guest article from Alyssa Lillo, a student at Oral Roberts University. Introduction Educational principles in North America reflect the ways in which young people are taught, trained, and developed to become responsible mature adults in society. Similarly, Christian discipleship is the way in which new believers are developed to become mature Christians in […]
August 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 year celebrates its 70th anniversary, as the organization Open Doors. The hidden scale of the need: 380 million […]
July 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 dedicated to preserving and making accessible materials related to the global denominations and groups that originated […]
July 21, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Michael Plekon: Ministry Matters
Michael Plekon, Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Life and Work Today (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024), 173 pages, ISBN 9781666789959. “Congregations are shrinking and in decline in the United States and elsewhere” (xiii). Michael Plekon (Emeritus Professor of Baruch College), begins the introduction to his new book, Ministry Matters, with this matter-of-fact statement, not to frighten […]
July 18, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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Christian Leadership: Growing a Church or Impacting a Community?
Is your church making a lasting impact on the community? As a pastor, I am dedicated to not only grow my church, but to lead them in reaching out to those around us. In this issue of Pastor’s Coach, I share the difference between being focused on church growth and being dedicated to influencing society. […]
July 17, 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 stay plugged into your relationship with God the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit is a pilot […]
July 11, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
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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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Robert Muthiah’s The Priesthood of All Believers in the Twenty-First Century, reviewed by John Miller
Robert A. Muthiah, The Priesthood of All Believers in the Twenty-First Century: Living Faithfully as the Whole People of God in a Postmodern Context (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2009), 185 pages. Robert Muthiah, professor of Practical Theology at Azusa Pacific University, differentiates independence from interdependence, which is held in theoretical tension with the concept of The […]
July 3, 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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