What’s with all this noise? Why is the preacher asking us to lift our voice? These are some common responses that many unfamiliar with Pentecostal churches have had when attending a service. These are fair questions when asked with the right attitude. Why do we...
It seemed to begin in earnest with the onslaught of social media posts heralding the woes of another Disney animated movie. In this case, Turning Red was the latest movie to engender an online cacophony of tirades from “outraged parents.” Some of the...
The year was 2017 and Pastor Mark Brown stood before 37,000 Pentecostals at the North American Youth Conference in Indianapolis, IN. The crowd he spoke to represented a varied gathering of Pentecostals from across the broad landscape of Pentecostal flavor. In...
In a postlapsarian world, it is difficult to imagine life in the Garden. First, much of what we hear on life in the Garden is laden with misinformation and/or oral tradition within hermeneutic communities. Take, for example, the commonly held idea that Adam daily...
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Virgil & Fitzgerald, p35, line 70). This phrase, loosely translated from a line in Virgil’s retelling of the legend of the Trojan War (Aeneid ,Book 2), is not altogether different from the words of Sophocles’ famed hero Ajax who,...
