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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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Summer 2024: Other Significant Articles
Matthew D. Kim, “Preaching on the Idolatry of Politics: 3 challenges to preach wisely on politics” Preaching Today (2024). Karen L. Willoughby, “Space Force hymn writer inspired by ‘awe and wonder of God’” Baptist Press (July 3, 2024). PneumaReview.com author Jim Linzey writes: “the Baptist Press has published this article, mentioning the New Tyndale […]
September 30, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Emily Gardiner Neal: Apostle to the Skeptics
Mrs. Emily Gardiner Neal (1910-1989) is now mostly forgotten despite being a major figure in the healing movement from 1956 when her first book came out, A Reporter Finds God Through Spiritual Healing.[1] Before her conversion she was one of the outstanding reporters of her era. As a Christian, her ministry impacted believers of all […]
September 17, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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William De Arteaga: Battling the Demonic
William De Arteaga, Battling the Demonic: The Kingdom of God vs. the Kingdom of Darkness (2023), 174 pages, ISBN 9798857919569. In Battling the Demonic, prolific writer and chronicler of the moves of the Holy Spirit in the Western world, the Rev’d William L. De Arteaga PhD, has collected a series of essays on a […]
September 9, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Bruce Yocum: Prophecy
Bruce Yocum, Prophecy: Exercising the Prophetic Gifts of the Spirit in the Church Today (Word of Life, 1976), 150 pages, ISBN 9780892830299. I cannot recall exactly how I learned of this book that was published almost fifty years ago. The book is out of print and only available from used book dealers [Editor’s note: The […]
August 30, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Workshop of the Holy Spirit: An Invitation to Theological Education
Doug Strong and Jess Bielman, Workshop of the Holy Spirit: An Invitation to Theological Education (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2022), 152 pages, ISBN 9781532689093. Doug Strong and Jess Bielman offer this short volume intent on reimagining and reoffering an ancient medieval metaphor (the “workshop”) for contemporary practices of theological education that are integrative of the life […]
August 19, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Miraculous Living: Coming to Christ in His Realm
Like Peter’s failing attempt to walk on the water, many believers are trying to approach Jesus from the realm of intellect and knowledge. While we thank God for the mind and its ability, human wisdom is not enough. Man is a spiritual as well as a mental-being. To be genuinely equipped for life-in-the-Spirit, our experience […]
August 12, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Why Pentecostal Churches Are Growing
In 2009 the University of Southern California established the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) with a $6.9 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. In a news release dated February 24, 2009, PCRI spokesperson Donald Miller states, “We are interested in why Pentecostalism is growing so rapidly, what impact it is having on society, […]
August 5, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Transformation in the Presence of God: an interview with Dr. Ian R. Hall
PneumaReview.com: You have been in ministry for many years, please tell our readers a little bit about the different kinds of ministries that you have been involved in. Dr. Ian R. Hall: For 17 years I was a pastor and evangelist first with the Church of the Nazarene and then with the Elim Pentecostal Church, […]
July 29, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Spring 2024: Other Significant Articles
Danielle Treweek, “Will ‘Complementarianism’ Survive?: I want to continue to call myself a complementarian. But we need to reclaim the term” Christianity Today (March 18, 2024). As appearing in the April 2024 issue of Christianity Today. Gaby Viesca, “Egalitarianism Is More Than a PR Statement: Are churches moving to an egalitarian model truly embracing […]
July 15, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Winter 2024: Other Significant Articles
“How Christians Can Break the Stronghold of a Curse-Informed Worldview: A Nigerian pastor refuses to live his life by this framework—and he wants to help the African church get there too” Christianity Today (September 11, 2023). PneumaReview.com author Godwin Adeboye is interviewed by Geethanjai Tupps. Craig Keener, “God has not rejected his people—Romans […]
June 24, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Amos Yong and Dale Coulter: The Holy Spirit and Higher Education
Amos Yong and Dale M. Coulter, The Holy Spirit and Higher Education: Renewing the Christian University (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023), 320 pages, ISBN 9781481318143. Amos Yong and Dale Coulter bring to bear a fruitful and constructive offering in The Holy Spirit and Higher Education whose primary audience are those engaged in work and […]
June 17, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Michael Gorman: Romans
Michael J. Gorman, Romans: A Theological & Pastoral Commentary (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2022), 325 pages, ISBN 9780802877628. Do you remember the last time you consulted a commentary? There is a high probability that you did not read it all the way through from cover to cover. Commentaries usually sit for quite […]
June 3, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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James Thompson: Christ and Culture in the New Testament
James W. Thompson, Christ & Culture in the New Testament (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2023), 227 pages, ISBN 9781666739466. James W. Thompson, a senior New Testament scholar and scholar in residence at Abilene Christian University, presents a compelling book on the interplay of Christianity and culture in the New Testament. Beginning with a well-intentioned critique […]
May 28, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Giulio Maspero: Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers
Giulio Maspero, Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023). Giulio Maspero’s book Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers addresses the seemingly perennial theological debate that has divided Christendom for a thousand years through a close reading of the development of trinitarian doctrine in the early Church. For those unfamiliar with […]
May 13, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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