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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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Michael Brown: Never Try to Control the Spirit’s Work
An excerpt from Michael L. Brown’s latest book: Seize the Moment: How to Fuel the Fires of Revival. Revival is God’s work. It comes from the heavenly throne, not from human effort, and it comes with intensity. That is the very essence of revival: it is sovereign (in that we cannot schedule it or […]
January 2, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Is Doomsday Upon Us?
As we look at world events today, our minds are flooded with anxiety about how history may turn out. If one would take time to study prophecies that point to the End Times (eschatology) it seems easy to understand how current world events play a major role in biblical prophecy. Though I’ve never considered myself […]
December 30, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Fall 2023: Other Significant Articles
Roger E. Olson, “Hegel In a Nutshell” Patheos (September 6, 2023). Historian of religion, Roger Olson, offers a brief introduction to the influential philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) in 7 bullet points: Hegel’s epistemology, Hegel’s ontology/metaphysics, Hegel’s religion, Hegel’s history, Hegel’s reason, Hegel’s influence on Christian theology, and Christian reactions to Hegel. […]
December 21, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Wreaths Across America Day 2023
USMC Marine Renders Honors and Salutes the Mother of the Fleet of the United States Navy, Verna M. Linzey, and Captain Stanford E. Linzey, Jr. on Wreaths Across America Day On Saturday, December 16, 2023, the United States Navy ‘Mother of the Fleet,’ the late Verna M. Linzey, D.D., was honored and saluted by PFC […]
December 18, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Robert Banks: The Versatility of Paul
Robert Banks, The Versatility of Paul: Artisan Missioner, Community Developer, Pastoral Educator (Baguio City, Philippines: Asia Pacific Theological Seminary Press and Robert Banks, 2022) 132 pages, ISBN 9786218350007. Robert Banks’ ministry experience includes being a professor and an author, he has also lectured at seminaries in various Asian countries (biographical information on the back cover). […]
December 14, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Verna Linzey on the Azusa Street Revival
This interview of Verna Linzey was for the Azusa Street Project, filmed and produced by John Ineno who previously worked for CBS. Verna Linzey’s interview was filmed at MCAS Miramar (San Diego) in 2006. My mother was 87 years of age in that interview. John Ineno also interviewed Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland, and many other […]
December 8, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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The Dynamic Intensity of the Spirit
I recently presented on the topic of “The Dynamic Intensity of the Spirit.” It was part of a Horizon College & Seminary faculty panel on the topic of “Revival and Awakenings.” In my presentation, I explained that even though God is omnipresent and God does not change, the presence of God in the Holy Spirit can become […]
November 28, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Raised from the Dead
Jamie Burns, a Teen-aged Girl, Raised from the Dead According to the American Medical Association, clinical death is the cessation of the pumping of blood by the heart through the body, which will inevitably result in the cessation of breathing. It is a medical emergency, in which without immediate intervention the opportunity to reverse the […]
November 21, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Kyle Hughes: How the Spirit Became God
Kyle R. Hughes, How the Spirit Became God: The Mosaic of Early Christian Pneumatology (Cascade, 2020), 176 pages, ISBN 9781532693748. The title of this book may be initially off-putting to some, as though the author is proposing a view of the Holy Spirit akin to what is known as “adoptionist Christology.” But in the foreword, […]
November 14, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Response to Hannah Agustin’s Article “Colonialism Brought Evangelicalism to the Philippines: Churches Are Now Untangling the Two”
In this review essay by seasoned missionary-scholar Dave Johnson, he takes a more nuanced approach to globalism, colonialism and the Filipinos efforts to contextualize the gospel and Church practices in the Philippines. Hannah Keziah Agustin, “Colonialism Brought Evangelicalism to the Philippines. Churches Are Now Untangling the Two: Five Filipino Christian leaders weigh in on the […]
November 6, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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The Importance of Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Vital Aspects of the Holy Spirit The doctrine of the Holy Spirit has been present from the time of the primitive church and on into the 20th century. However, generally speaking, what has been lacking is His concrete influence in the same way that was evident in the early days of Pentecost, in the primitive […]
October 29, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Uncovering Treasures: Publishing books with a buried legacy
PneumaReview.com speaks with Bethany Hope about rediscovering the writings of missionaries and Christian pioneers. Some of these seasoned followers of Jesus have much to teach us. PneumaReview.com: Underground Publishing House is a new book label, please tell our readers when and where it started. Bethany Hope: At the end of 2022, we were doing […]
October 22, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Jean Danielou: Platonism and Mystical Theology
Jean Daniélou, Platonism and Mystical Theology: The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Gregory of Nyssa (Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2022), 444 pages, ISBN 9780881417173. Edited by Rev. Ignatius Green. Translated by Anthony P. Gythiel and Michael Donley. This book is an English translation of Jean Daniélou’s seminal 1944 book Platonisme et théologie mystique: doctrine […]
October 15, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post
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Pentecost in China
The Holy Spirit has been making Jesus known in China. Veteran missionary Dennis Balcombe shares what he has seen unfolding during his more than fifty years of ministry in China. Bible teachers believe that many prophecies will have a double fulfillment. The first fulfillment was in the Biblical days and subsequently the last days before […]
October 9, 2023 | 0 comments | View Post