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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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Michael Bird: Jesus among the Gods
Michael F. Bird, Jesus among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2022), xi+480 pages, ISBN 9781481316750. To whom or to what might we compare Jesus, the “son of God” (Mark 1:1)? In the hunt to discern the meaning and range of early Christian identifications of Jesus as divine, scholars […]
January 16, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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Paul Hattaway, Shaanxi: The Cradle of Chinese Civilization
Paul Hattaway, Shaanxi: The Cradle of Chinese Civilization (United Kingdom: Piquant Editions/Asia Harvest, 2023), 288 pages, ISBN 9781803290096. This present volume is the seventh book in Paul Hattaway’s “China Chronicles” series. In each book the author focuses on the Christian history of a specific province in China. As the title indicates, this latest offering focuses […]
January 9, 2024 | 0 comments | View Post
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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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