Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
The Book of Judges contains a disturbing story known as the Levite’s Concubine, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the story of Lot’s daughters in Sodom.
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city,
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“I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it, for you have little strength, have kept My word and have not denied My name” (Revelation 3:8). I never give the posts in the Nearing Midnight column a miss; it never bores me, but it certainly […]
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Texts are listed below for reference. Acts written in Greek and the Septuagint (LXX) are word for word the same but is this enough evidence to say the Ethiopian read from the LXX. Phillip probably could read both. The Ethiopian probably…
The month of January is Human Trafficking Awareness month. This terrible social evil has been more prominent in our social consciousness in recent decades, but early Pentecostals were at the forefront of bringing attention to this issue as early as 190…
Much debate has been had over the use of ‘the word’ in John’s prologue. Many early English translations translated the relevant pronoun in John 1:2-4 as ‘it’ instead of ‘he’, suggesting the referent to not be a male person but a thing.
In…
How is the message about a God who made covenants with a particular people in a particular land move into the gentile world? This was a perplexing issue for the early church, and the early Jewish leaders used the book of Leviticus to help solv…
I am not a psychiatrist, but I have been told more than once that some mentally ill people think everyone else is mentally ill, and I am beginning to wonder if more and more people are mentally ill or if it is me. On Sept. 19, 2022, it was reported that the Dutch city […]
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More and more churches are deciding to raise up staff from within their congregation. While I wondered about that direction when it first began to gain steam, I have come to see the value of it. Here are 10 reasons I encourage you to consider this opti…
2 Maccabees 7:28 (GNT) states,
So I urge you, my child, to look at the sky and the earth. Consider everything you see there, and realize that God made it all from nothing, just as he made the human race.
The CEB and DRA also translate th…
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Chapter 3 How Prehistory Got Expanded From a Few Thousand to Hundreds of Thousands of Years There does appear a problem with understanding these…
Many early interpreters of the Bible believed that Adam was androgynous. This idea is also found in Plato (Symposium 189c-193e) and was discussed in…