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Women and the Gender of God – A Review
Amy Peeler, Women and the Gender of God (Eerdmans, October 2022), 286 pages. $24.99.
Years ago, the late Hollis Gause and Kimberly Alexander published Women in Leadership: A Pentecostal Perspective (2006). In conversations about that book, I’ve often said that its weakness is that it does not offer a serious consideration of the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a paradigm for women in ministry. Amy Peeler has done just that.
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Reflecting on the 2022 Pentecostal World Conference
It was a joy to travel to Seoul, Korea to attend the 26th Pentecostal World Conference. The PWC is a triennial conference hosted by the Pentecostal World Fellowship. I would like to share just a few reflections.
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Columbus Day Reflections
It has become common for postmodern social justice advocates to demonize the immigration of Europeans into the Americas. This view represents a narrow and contextualized view of human history. From a biblical perspective, human migration is the command of God – humans were to cultivate the earth, and propagate the species. When humans sought to settle in the plains of Shinar, God scattered them across the globe.
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The Lord’s Supper – Participating in the Divine Nature
In the Lord’s Supper believers are partakers of the divine nature. Through Christ’s priestly ministry, humanity is sanctified so we can receive the Spirit (Heb. 10:22; 1 Peter 1:2). The Holy Spirit comes through the intercession of Jesus (John 14:16-17; 15:26; 16:7; Acts 2:33). Through the Spirit, Christ comes to believers in the bread and cup.
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