Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
While I think its important to spell out how scripture speaks of God to secure our own way of describing God, I have also suggested that the prohibitions in agenda item #20 overreach. In this article, I want to spell out one way it overreaches. First, …
Movies were used to great effect during the second world war by both the Americans and the Germans for propaganda purposes. Many “movie stars” participated in the war effort. Today, while culture wars are going on, we are exposed to men kissing men (on the lips!) and women kissing women is the norm – in […]
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There is an ongoing controversy in Christian circles regarding the role Christians play in their own salvation. There are those who say that the Christian plays no role in God’s plan of redemption. They assert that to make such a claim interferes with God’s sovereignty and gives the Christian reason to boast. They often further […]
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Duane Litfin, “The Real Theological Issue Between Christians and Muslims: It’s not about a different God, but a different Jesus” Christianity Today (August 9, 2016). To begin, and in the interest of full disclosure, I have previously written on the question of the identification and relation of the Triune God and Allah being considered by […]
I have no wrath.
Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely. (NASB)
Simply put, how should we understand this verse? Who are the briars and thorns, and why is it given to s…
A Call to Redeem Our Bodies: Weeping in Sexual Brokenness and Walking in Sexual Holiness I didn’t want to say #metoo. I didn’t want…
Pneuma 29 (2007) 5-23 The Spirit and Doctrinal Development: A Functional Analysis of the Traditional Pentecostal Doctrine of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit…
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you. – Ephesians 4:32 Forgiveness…
PNEUMA 39 (2017) 168–178 The Spiritof and SpiritinCraig S. Keener’s Spirit Hermeneutics Jacqueline N. Grey Alphacrucis College, Australia jacqui.grey@ac.edu.au Abstract This essay provides a…
Andrew Wilson, Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018), 140 pages, ISBN 9780310534675. Andrew Wilson has written a highly readable, engaging volume seeking the integration of the streams that are regularly treated as contrastive: sacrament and Spirit. It is not that these are actually contrastive, but too many folks […]
This guest article is a chapter adapted from America in Danger, Left and Right: Biblical Analysis, Actions and Intercessions for the Current Crisis (2022), by William…
There is no dearth of information–evidence to address the prophecy by the Apostle Paul for the time so near the end of the Age of Grace. “But evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13). We now have in our once biblically-influenced nation an entire public education […]
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