Author: Daniel Tomberlin

BS, MDiv, DMin. Ordained bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN); pastor for 37 years; Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Pentecostal Theological Seminary (Cleveland TN).
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My Testimony – Reflecting on a Pastor’s Global Mission

I was recently invited to speak about engaging in global mission as a local church pastor. Here are my brief remarks.

In the Fall of 1980, I was pastoring a small church in Attapulgus, Georgia. I was just a few months into the pastorate, when I invited a young evangelist – Phillip Kirkland – to come preach a revival. One night during the altar service he prophesied these words to me: “God has anointed you to preach the gospel throughout the world and God will raise you up to be a Pentecostal leader.” I was from a small town, pastoring in a small town, and never anticipated ministry beyond small town Georgia . . .

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Gregory of Nyssa: Catechetical Discourse

One might be tempted to think that messages targeted for the catechesis of new believers would be simple – reflecting the milk of babes. One would be wrong! In reading Gregory of Nyssa’s messages, it is evident that his messages are more than a child-like apologetic for the faith. Rather, he intends that his readers be intellectually challenged and transformed. Reading these messages requires one to be engaged in the meat of the word – the mysteries of Christian revelation. Gregory writes in a rhetorical fashion in which he anticipates the questions and objections of his readers.

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Basil – On the Holy Spirit

Basil the Great lived and worked in a most contentious age – between the Council of Nicaea (325) and the Council of Constantinople (381). At issue was the Christian revelation of God. Basil’s opponents were the semi-Arians, Sabellians, and the Pneumatomachi (Spirit-fighters), all of whom denied the equal divine nature of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son, thereby denying the doctrine of Holy Trinity.

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