Winter 2017: Other Significant Articles
Karl Vaters, “Deal-Breakers: 7 Ways God May Tell a Pastor to Leave a Church” Pivot (December 15, 2016).
The byline of this blog by Karl Vaters reads, “Long-term pastorates are almost always good for the church and the pastor. But when these things happen, it’s time to go.”
Eddie Hyatt, “Learning to ‘Think Critically’ Without Quenching the Spirit” Global Christian Awakening (December 31, 2016)
PneumaReview.com writer Eddie Hyatt talks about gifts and manifestations of the Spirit, personal prophecy, and a warning about how being careless about how we approach these things can create life-arresting problems. “When it comes to the supernatural, we should have an attitude of being open without being naïve and being critical without being judgmental. This will allow us to enjoy the fullness of God’s blessings and at the same time be protected from the many deceiving spirits at work in the world today.”
Karl Vaters, “5 Problems With Top-Down Vision-Casting – And a New Testament Alternative: Acts 2 does not give us a picture of Peter hearing from God in private, then coming to the disciples with the vision” Pivot (December 19, 2016).
In this blog from Karl Vaters, hosted by ChristianityTodayOnline, we are asked, “Have we been doing vision-casting wrong?”
George Thomas, “Radical Revival Falls on China’s State-Controlled Churches” CBN News (January 5, 2017).
Pastor John Lathrop invites us to watch this encouraging testimony and read this introductory article about what God is doing, “an unprecedented Christian revival happening in parts of China. What is unique about this story is how God is moving among communist-controlled government churches.”
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “The Favorite Bible Verses of 88 Nations” Christianity Today (January 10, 2017).
PneumaReview.com editor Raul Mock says: “In this short article and the Country-Verse table that follows you will find interesting, current, relevant, and biblically-centered ideas for sermon starters and anecdotes.”
Roger E. Olson, “Who Were the First Protestants? Reflections on the ‘500th Anniversary’” Patheos (January 16, 2017).
“Q&A on Racial Reconciliation with David Bailey” Barna (January 12, 2017).
The opening question in this interview is: “An overwhelming 98 percent of pastors believe churches play an important role in racial reconciliation, yet only half say racial reconciliation is among their own church’s top 10 priorities. Why is there a disconnect between some pastors’ awareness of the problem and their active, informed participation in the solution?”
Roger E. Olson, “Are There ‘Wicked Problems’ in Theology?” Patheos (January 29, 2017).
What do we do with intractable, unsolvable problems in theology?
Roger E. Olson, “Is Belief in a ‘Historical Adam’ an Essential Christian Belief?” Patheos (February 7, 2017).
“Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave” Hebrew University of Jerusalem (February 8, 2017).
Thanks to PneumaReview.com writer Kevin Williams for pointing out this article on archaeology.
Significant Articles you may have missed: Articles from renewalist scholars you may have missed when they were published.
Vinson Synan, “Pentecostalism: William Seymour: What scoffers viewed as a weird babble of tongues became a world phenomenon after his Los Angeles revival” Christian History 65 (2000).
Craig S. Keener, “Are Spiritual Gifts for Today?” Christian Trends (March 31, 2015).
David D. Daniels, “Why Pentecostalism’s Multiethnic Beginning Floundered: Racial harmony broke down, but the hope did not” Christian History 58 (1998).
Scot McKnight, “The Soul of Evangelicalism: What Will Become of Us?” Patheos (February 15, 2017).
Scot McKnight writes, “Everybody’s a prophet these days and thinks so because, so they think, they are speaking truth to power. They’re not. They’re yelling in a barrel full of self-appointed prophets.”
Regnum Edinburgh 2010 Series. The complete text, available as downloadable eBooks, of the 23 titles available in this series.
Mark E. Roberts writes: “New from ORU Library: DigitalShowcase.ORU.edu. Here is a generous collection of free ebooks on Christianity globally.”
Tony Richie, “Religion-Related Violence: Cause and Cure” Faith News Network (March 8, 2017).
Khaldoun Sweis, “Why You Most Certainly Will Fail to Reach Your Secular Friends: Many have never been given a single reason as to why God is relevant to their lives” The Exchange (March 16, 2017).
