Paradigm for Pentecostal Preaching
What are the marks of biblical and Spirit-filled preaching?
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June 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Keith Warrington: Healing & Suffering
Should believers ever be ill? Is it biblical to “claim” one’s healing? Why do so many remain ill after prayer for healing? What are the gifts of healing? Did Jesus provide physical healing for believers when he died on the cross?
April 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Matthew Elliott: Faithful Feelings
Faithful Feelings focuses on reading the New Testament as to its emotional content on the part of the writers and on the part of the recipients.
April 16, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Standing Between the Living and the Dead
George Whitefield was an Englishman of the 18th century and one of the greatest evangelists of all times. Today’s “signs and wonders” would seem mild in comparison to the Spirit’s astonishing demonstrations that occurred in his ministry. My request of the Lord is that He will anoint me with the same Holy Spirit’s power that […]
February 21, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Simon Chan, Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition
Simon Chan, Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic, 2000, reprint 2003), paperback, 129 pages. Simon Chan dares to offer an answer to a question many contemporary Pentecostals are only recently even daring to ask. How do we pass on Pentecostalism’s distinctive beliefs and experiences to subsequent generations? For apocalyptic and […]
February 5, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Pilgrimage Into Pentecost: The Pneumatological Legacy of Howard M. Ervin
Pastor Isgrigg introduces us to Professor Ervin and how he helped shape the landscape of today’s Pentecostal/charismatic movement. Introduction Howard M. Ervin, a Baptist and Pentecostal scholar, paved the way for other scholars to defend the Pentecostal faith in the academic world. During the last half of the twentieth century, charismatics, evangelicals and Pentecostals […]
October 20, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
The Impact of Martin Luther and the Reformation on Modern Revivalism
What can the Reformer teach us about revival? The emphasis by Martin Luther and other Reformers on the ultimate authority of Scripture and the priesthood of all believers opened the way for all the great revivals of the modern era. Luther’s work broke the paralyzing hold of a religious hierarchy that claimed final […]
September 20, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Numbers 11 and a Pentecostal Theology of Church Leadership
In this day of specialization, it seems we have a difficult time combining thorough Bible study and relevant practical application. Too often, practitioners do not get their principles from studying the Bible, and scholars do not produce relevant principles and practical application. I would like this essay to begin a dialogue that will bring these […]
July 20, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Ajith Fernando: The Call to Joy and Pain
Ajith Fernando, The Call to Joy and Pain: Embracing Suffering in Your Ministry (Wheaton: Crossway, 2007), 192 pages, ISBN 9781581348880. The Call to Joy and Pain by Ajith Fernando is a provocative analysis of the issue of pain and suffering. While he does not treat the cosmic problem of the reason for suffering in […]
February 5, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Transforming: The Church as Agent of Change in the Parable of the Good Samaritan
The shocking parable of the Good Samaritan provides an example of how the church can be an agent of transformation. In this story from Luke 10, a despised minority person demonstrates God’s love and shows today’s Christians the essence of authentic social transformation. The story of the Good Samaritan is one of the […]
January 9, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Transforming: The Church as Agent of Change in the Story of Zacchaeus
The power of personal faith in Christ changing people and society around them. A study in Luke 19:1-10 by James D. Hernando. The story of Zacchaeus is one of the most intriguing in Luke’s gospel—a literary masterpiece filled with vivid imagery, drama, and biting irony. It is the story of the conversion […]
December 15, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
The Problem of Suffering: A Response from 1 Peter
Rebecca Skaggs with Thomas Doyle lead us into a biblical and thoughtful look at the reality of suffering.
November 15, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Will the Real Paul Please Stand Up?
A review essay by pastor, scholar Tony Richie about the new perspective on Paul. Simon Gathercole, “What Did Paul Really Mean?: ‘New perspective’ scholars argue that we need, well, a new perspective on justification by faith” Christianity Today (August 2007), pages 22-28. Simon Gathercole is a NT scholar and former Senior Lecturer in New Testament […]
August 31, 2008 | 0 comments | View Post
Proclaiming the Gospel with Miraculous Gifts in the Postbiblical Early Church
Many stories in Christian history are filled with accounts of charismatic gifts, miracles, signs and wonders. The emergence of the Pentecostal, the neoPentecostal or charismatic, and third wave movements in our century has raised a variety of vital questions that demand answers. Among these is the issue of whether the spiritual gifts enumerated […]
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