Pilgrimage into Pentecost explores the life and legacy of Howard M. Ervin, Th.D., chronicling Ervin's pilgrimage from his beginnings as Baptist pastor to his global influence as a Pentecostal leader. His exegetical theology led him to advocate a distinctively Lukan theology of the Holy Spirit, and he became for a while the leading scholarly apologist for the classical Pentecostal doctrine of Spirit baptism. Ervin's scholarship spurred fruitful theological debate on the contemporary work of the Holy Spirit, especially with New Testament scholar James D.G. Dunn, while his extensive ecumenical...

In A Good Opinion Once Lost, Amonda Matthewman-Isgrigg looks at Jane Austen's classic work Pride and Prejudice as an example of a conduct novel. She takes the reader through the process of self-discovery found in the colorful characters of this novel. She shows the way in which domestic fiction served to shape the conduct of women in society in eighteenth century England.

Most pastors are average. No, that is not an insult. It is the data. If you are a pastor of a church of under 100 you probably feel small. But it is not true.The average church size in America is 75 people. And 83% of pastors serve a church that is less than 200 people. Yet in this day of mega churches and multi-site churches, it feels like the average pastor is not average at all. This book is for the average pastor who serves the average church in America. The Average Pastor is a collection of reflections on pastoring the average church from an average pastor. Daniel Isgrigg covers a...