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We are your premier source for cutting-edge resources that are designed to promote and foster an environment of growth and theological awareness and education within the Apostolic Pentecostal community. AlphaTav, a play on both Hebrew and Greek letters (Alpha being the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Tav being the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet), is founded on a vision that hopes to bring dynamic subject-matter to the layperson and the academic alike. 

 

Echoes in Koinonia: The Danger of an ‘Amen’ Corner

When a snake slithers out from the nondescript foliage in the woods, your entire body responds to the sudden fear of the snake. This fight-or-flight response is an Amygdala Hijack*. Your heart rate and blood pressure increase, causing you to breathe more quickly,...

Touch Not Mine Anointed…

THE TEXT 1 Chronicles 16:22 (KJV) — 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, And do my prophets no harm The Context 1 Chronicles 16:17–21 (KJV) — 17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, And to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 18 Saying, Unto thee will I give...

How Churches Became Cruise Ships

In a book I read recently, the prism was turned, which allowed me to understand the plight of church attendance in a whole different light. This book, bringing me through the '50s and into the '60s and '70s, captured a phenomenon that began to occur in the Christian...

Hushai: Another Reason Why I Pray

Perhaps you have sometimes struggled to pray and wondered: "Does my prayer work?" Well, something from a story found in II Samuel and a figure named Hushai has caused me to push through those thoughts and engage in a daily habit of prayer. It is very simple. God is...

Book Review: Jerusalem in the Times of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias

It was long overdue when the translation of Joachim Jeremias’ premier scholarship on Jerusalem's economic, social, and cultural conditions in the first Christian century was produced. Joachim, son of the theologian and Assyriologist Friedrich Jeremias, also the pastor...

The Apostle Paul and the Absence of the Gospels

Many reading this will be surprised to learn that the Apostle Paul did not have the Four Gospels when he began his ministry following his encounter with Christ on the Road to Damascus around AD 35. The newly inaugurated Church did not have anything they utilized as a...

God Did Not “Robe Himself in Flesh.”

We have all heard the phrase, "God robed Himself in the flesh," but I want to take a quick moment and explain succinctly why we should avoid this phrase and why this phrase is theologically inaccurate. John 1:14 — 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and...

Double Fulfillment in Scripture: The Virgin Birth?

Isaiah 7:14–16 (KJV 1900) — 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 For...

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