Winter 2023

• Remembering Jack Hayford

  Pentecostal pastor, leader, and educator Jack Hayford went home to be with the Lord on January 8, 2023. To celebrate some of his many contributions to Spirit-empowered ministry, please peruse some of this content available at PneumaReview.com: John Lathrop reviews S. David Moore, Pastor Jack: The Authorized ... Read More

• Holy Spirit Symposium 2023 – Call for Papers

  The Center for the Study of the Work and Ministry of the Holy Spirit Today will be hosting an academic symposium October 27-28, 2023. Theme: The Holy Spirit and the healing of the body. On behalf of the Center for the Study of the Work and Ministry ... Read More

• First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament

  First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2021), xviii + 483 pages, ISBN 9780830813599. The First Nations Version-xiii), including “Why the Name First Nations Version?” ... Read More

• Real Freedom

  I would like to speak about the real freedom that comes from experiencing the Spirit of God. There is a real bondage that we can feel without His Spirit. This bondage can take many forms: the opinions of people, maybe it’s your position at work, ... Read More

• Remembering Dr. Russell P. Spittler

  Remembering Dr. Russell P. Spittler might be a strong tendency for anyone impacted by his mentorship, teaching, ministry, or friendship. Mental images come to mind of him as a serious intellectual, mentor, professor, or friend. Meaningful interactions and learning opportunities abounded with every dialogue with ... Read More

• Michael Brown: The Political Seduction of the Church

  Michael L. Brown, The Political Seduction of the Church: How Millions of American Christians Have Confused Politics with the Gospel (Vide, 2022), ISBN 9781954618497 The last several years have seen a plethora of books published concerning the church and political involvement. While I haven’t done a ... Read More

• Winter 2023: Other Significant Articles

  Douglas Stuart, “Gordon Fee – A Tribute” Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (November 1, 2022).   “The Relatable Zeal of Puritan Women: They were extremely into religion without being extreme” Christianity Today (January 3, 2023). Catherine Parks interviews Pneuma Review author Jenny-Lyn de Klerk about Puritan spirituality.   Max Lucado, “Help, Wisdom ... Read More

• Woman Rises from Dead After Prayer

  Jim Linzey, currently serving as a pastor in Coffeyville, Kansas, shares a story about a miracle that happened in his community. Recently, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and God TV reported that a woman in Coffeyville, Kansas rose from the dead. Landon D. Vinson, M.D., who was ... Read More

• Robert Menzies: Is the Chinese Church Predominantly Pentecostal? Part 3: Gaining Perspective

  Is the Church in China Predominantly Pentecostal? Part 3: Gaining Perspective: A Contextual Assessment   The strong Pentecostal orientation of the Church in China is striking, but it should not surprise us. In fact, when the recent revival of Christianity in China is viewed against the backdrop of ... Read More

• People Met Jesus Deeply Here: Craig Keener on the Asbury Outpouring

  I teach at Asbury Seminary, which is a distinct institution from Asbury University, but my wife Médine teaches French at the university and both my kids attended there. So, I don’t feel guilty cutting across the university campus to get to work. Three years ago, I ... Read More

• Belonging to a Local Church: A Foundation for Believers

  Pastor Daniel Brown writes about the importance of significant and intentional community for followers of Jesus. Church-hopping Christians who flit from one congregation to another do have a problem—but it is not with the people they meet, as they think. It is with themselves, observes one ... Read More

• Graham Cole: Engaging with the Holy Spirit

  Graham A. Cole, Engaging with the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008), 125 pages. Graham A. Cole teaches biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Readers of The Pneuma Review will probably remember his excellent contribution about pneumatology, ... Read More

• How Should we Lead the Church? A Pneuma Review Conversation

  How should we lead the church? A Pneuma Review conversation   Over several issues, from Summer 2010 through Winter 2012, The Pneuma Review heard from theologians and pastors from around the world about how we should lead the local church. If you could write a letter to church leaders everywhere, what would ... Read More

• A Master’s Touch

  Thirty years ago I had a friend named Bob who had grown up in New England, and then had gone to college at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland. While he was there he met a young woman named Liz who had grown up in ... Read More

• Praying in the Spirit

   The Praying in the Spirit Series.  Robert W. Graves wrote Praying in the Spirit (Chosen Books) in 1987, when it received great reviews from a number of Pentecostal/charismatic scholars and leaders including John Sherrill, Dr. Vinson Synan, Dr. Gordon Fee, Dr. William Menzies, Dr. Howard Ervin, ... Read More