Lets Question The Ministry Of Women
157 Let’s Question the Ministry of Women Graciela Esparza . EDITOR’S NOTE: Graciela Esparza belongs to a small but distinguished and .respectable new genre…
Are there systematic hermeneutical principles that help clarify which prophecies have double fulfilments?
I’m exploring the prophets and Ezra at the moment. In them, there are many prophecies that either refer to the day of The LORD.
Now, the day of The LORD seems to refer in different contexts to:
A) The destruction of Jerusalem
B) The return…
From Exorcism To Ecstasy Eight Views Of Baptism
Book Reviews / Pneuma 31 (2009) 105-160 159 Russell Haitch, From Exorcism to Ecstasy: Eight Views of Baptism (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007)….
What’s the significance that Amasiah was singled out as a volunteer in 2 Chronicles 17:16?
2 Chronicles 17 lists Jehoshaphat’s commanders and soldiers:
15 next, Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;
16 next, Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered himself for the service of the Lord, with 200,000.
What’s the significance that A…
Why did Jesus have the authority to forgive sins, why did the scribes take it as a blasphemy, and was this authority also given to men in general?
In Mark 2:5-12 Jesus surprises the scribes by forgiving the sins of (and miraculously healing) a paralytic. The scribes took it as a blasphemy, as they believed that forgiveness of sins was a prerogative pertaining to God exclusively:
5 A…
Gonzalo Haya Prats, Empowered Believers The Holy Spirit In The Book Of Acts, Ed., Paul Elbert, Trans. Scott A. Ellington (Eugene, OR Cascade Books, 2011). Xxv + 289 Pp., $35.00, Paper.
Book Reviews / Pneuma 34 (2012) 95-159 99 Gonzalo Haya-Prats, Empowered Believers: The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts, ed., Paul Elbert, trans….
Global Gospel An Introduction To Christianity On Five Continents, Written By Douglas Jacobsen
518 book reviews Douglas Jacobsen Global Gospel: An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents. Grand Rapids,mi: Baker Academic, 2015. Paperback $21.99.isbn9780801049934. Global Gospel approaches…
Will sinners be in hellfire forever considering God’s characteristics of not keeping angry forever?
Jeremiah 3:12 MEV
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, backsliding Israel, says the LORD, and I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.
Psalm …
Masked Africanisms Puerto Rican Pentecostalism
160 Book Reviews / Pneuma 29 (2007) 131-178 Samuel Cruz, Masked Africanisms: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/ Hunt Publishing Company, 2005). xvii +…
Can man bless God!? Psalm 115:18
But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.
Praise the Lord.
(Psalm 115:18 KJV)
But we, the living, will bless the Lord, from henceforth and for
ever. (PS 115:18 LXX – Brenton)
To me a blessing is to bestow a favor,…
What is James teaching about sin?
James 1:15 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.
‘when it has run its course’ – signi…
What does Jesus imply in John 20:17 by saying "my Father and your Father, and my God and your God"?
In John 20:17, instead of saying τὸν πατέρα ἡμῶν καὶ θεόν ἡμῶν, that is, “our Father and our God,” Jesus instead says, τὸν πατέρα μου καὶ πατέρα ὑμῶν καὶ θεόν μου καὶ θεὸν ὑμῶν, that is, “my Father and your Father, and my God and your God….