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Pentecostals and Other Evangelicals: We Need Each Other

Perhaps Pentecostal emphasis on the Spirit could combine with evangelical emphasis on the Word. With enough humility, Pentecostals and other evangelicals may and sometimes do learn much from one...

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Empowered for a Missional Reading of Scripture

Jesus’s promise of the Spirit for Pentecost was a promise of empowerment for mission (Luke 24:48-49; Acts 1:8). Luke reveals how pivotal this empowerment is by underlining its necessity in both his...

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Revival is Part of the Christian Life

If God poured out the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, then much of what we envision as “revival” is simply part of the normal Christian life. It is not the sole possession of one part of the body of...

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The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us: John 16

Jesus had been telling his disciples that the Spirit would further explain the teachings he had given them – not make up new things that had little to do with the Jesus they had known (1 John  4:2-6),...

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The Spirit as a divine person — John 14:16-17, 26

Christians honor God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yet we may not always recognize the biblical foundations for what we believe. That the Father is God goes without saying. That Jesus is divine in...

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