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New book now available at pentecostalpublishing.com

Daniel Segraves

September 16, 2025 | Daniel L. Segraves, Ph.D.

I was pleased this morning to see my new book listed among “Newest Releases” at pentecostalpublishing.com. This 256-page work includes 384 endnotes (see below) and explores in depth the witness to Jesus Christ in Psalms 73-106. I have agreed to be available for book signings at the upcoming eightieth general conference of the United Pentecostal Church International. Next Thursday, September 25, at 9:15 p.m. I plan to be at the Pentecostal Publishing House display to meet and sign books for “all who yearn to discover how the Scriptures testify of Jesus.”

Who wants to read footnotes?

Some readers have no interest in wading through footnotes. When they appear at the bottom of a page, they see this as a sign that the book is not for them! Others love the notes and head to them first, figuring that’s where the vital information is found.

Recognizing the aversion some people have to notes, many publishers place them in the back of the book as endnotes. This way, the information is preserved for those who want it, but others who fear getting bogged down can nevertheless enjoy and profit from the book’s major content.

My book follows this approach. If you’re not interested in notes, you’ll never see them. But if you love them, as I do, head to page 225, and you can savor thirty-one more pages of insight.

For instance, at the end of eleven pages that examine Psalm 81, the final paragraph reads: It would be impossible to describe the miraculous mystery of the Incarnation more fittingly than in Paul’s words in I Timothy 3:16: “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory” (NKJV). In knowing Jesus, we know the Creator Himself. This wondrous truth is rooted in the very first verse of the Bible.

But wait. This paragraph points to two endnotes offering more information on I Timothy 3:16. Here they are: Footnote 151: “Instead of ‘God,’ some English translations read ‘He,’ ‘He Who,’ ‘Who,’ or ‘which.’ This is because these translations follow a Greek variant that appears only in a few manuscripts. One translation even reads ‘Christ’ instead of God. No Greek manuscript includes ‘Christ’ in I Timothy 3:16. The great majority of Greek copies have ‘God,’ which is seen in the KJV, NKJV, and other translations.”

And finally, Footnote 152: “The Greek text of I Timothy 3:16 could be legitimately read as follows: ‘God was manifested in the flesh, [God was] justified in the Spirit, [God was] seen by angels, [God was preached (i.e., proclaimed)] among the Gentiles, [God was] believed on in the world, [God was] received up in glory.” This is because each of these verbs (i.e., manifested, justified, seen, preached, believed on, and received up) is in the aorist passive indicative form. ‘God’ is the noun subject to which each of these verbs refers.

So what do you think? Is it worth it to look a bit further?

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15% discount on my books until July 14, 2023

Daniel Segraves

I am often asked how many books I have written. The number is twenty-one. I’m now working on number twenty-two, which will be the second volume of my commentary on Psalms. I would, of course, like to get these books into the hands of as many readers as possible. Like preachers, pastors, and teachers, Christian authors have a sense of calling, and they believe God has given them a message they need to communicate to people of faith.

For that reason, I’m happy to tell you that the Pentecostal Publishing House, now known as the Pentecostal Resources Group, has informed me that I can offer a 15% discount on all of my books and other resources from now through July 14, 2023, which is the last day of the Arkansas District Camp Meeting.

Tim Gaddy, the district superintendent of the Arkansas District of the United Pentecostal Church International, has asked me to do the Bible teaching for the Arkansas district’s camp meeting this year, which is scheduled for July 12-14. Due to scheduling challenges, the Pentecostal Publishing House will not have a display set up at the camp meeting. That is the reason the discount is available. We want to make these resources as accessible as possible.

How to obtain the 15% discount

Keep in mind the discount code is DS15. You can take advantage of this special discount by phone or email.

Customer Service Phone: 866-819-7667

Customer Service Email: customerservice@pentecostalpublishing.com

In order to see the fifty-two resources available, check out the PPH website at pentecostalpublishing.com. Type “Segraves” in the search window. This will enable you to see each of the twenty-one books by title and with brief descriptions. One is available in the Spanish language as well a English. Some are offered as e-books as well as in hard copy. In addition to the books, resources are available as CDs. Here is a summary of what you will find:

Verse by verse commentaries:

Romans: Living by Faith
Hebrews: Better Things
James: Faith at Work
First Peter: Standing Fast in the Grace of God
Second Peter and Jude
Proverbs: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World
Doctrine:

God in Flesh
Hair Length in  the Bible
The Messiah's Name: JESUS, not Yahshua
Elohim and the Plural Passages (audio and video)
The Influence of Hellenistic Philosophy on the Development of Christology to Chalcedon (audio)
Binding and Loosing: The Authority of the Church (audio)
The Holy Spirit (This 314 page hard-back book is my most recent publication. It is a treatment of apostolic pneumatology that explores nearly every reference to the Holy Spirit in the entire Bible, beginning with Genesis 1:2 and ending with Revelation 22:17.
Christian Growth:

Insights for Christian Living
You Can Understand the Bible
If God Loves Me, Why Am I Hurting?
Spiritual Gifts
That Which is Perfect
Biblical Studies:

The Messiah in the Psalms, 1-72: Discovering Christ in Unexpected Places
Reading Between the Lines: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament
Themes from a Letter to Rome
Prophecy:

Looking Forward: A Clear View of Biblical Prophecy (available in English and Spanish)
Biography:

Andrew D. Urshan: A Theological Biography
This 312 page book is a professionally edited treatment of my Ph.D. dissertation on the life and theology of Andrew D. Urshan, one of the four most influential early twentieth century Oneness Pentecostals.
General Conference, Daniel Segraves 2001:

This CD is a recording of my defense of the genuineness of Christ's humanity.

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Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender, and Culture

Daniel Segraves

Grant Wacker, the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School, wrote the foreword for the recently released Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender, and Culture. This 263-page hardback volume is published by The Pennsylvania State University Press and edited by Lloyd D. Barba, Andrea Shan Johnson, and Daniel Ramirez.

In addition to Wacker’s foreword, the book includes a list of illustrations, acknowledgments, and an introduction titled “Remapping the History of North American Oneness Pentecostalism,” with contributions from each editor.

Ten chapters explore the variety of topics to which the subtitle alludes, offering insights on race, gender, and culture from the perspective of Oneness Pentecostalism as it developed from the early twentieth century. The author of each chapter is a scholar in the field whose academic qualifications are presented in a list of contributors on page 251.

Here are the chapter titles with the authors’ names:

  1. The Unresolved Issue: A Third-World Perspective on the Oneness Question, Manuel Gaxiola
  2. Evangelical Origins of Oneness Pentecostal Theology, David A. Reed
  3. Sounding Out Diversity in Pentecostal History: Early Oneness Hymnody, Daniel Ramirez
  4. Andrew D. Urshan: An Eastern Voice in Early Oneness Pentecostalism, Daniel L. Segraves
  5. The Dust District: Okies, Authority, and the Hard-Liner Transformation of California Pentecostalism, Lloyd D. Barba
  6. The Braziers: Three Generations of Apostolic Activism, Rosa M. Sailes
  7. Bossed and Bothered: Authority and Gender in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Dana Coleby Delgado
  8. Trust God to Provide for the Difference: The Economic and Opportunity Costs of Being Female and a Preacher, Andrea Shan Johnson
  9. Women in the Luz del Mundo Church: A Transnational Study, Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola
  10. Liturgical Spaces in Mexican Oneness Pentecostalism: Architectural and Spatial Dimensions, Daniel Chiquete

The volume concludes with a final offering by the editors titled “Navigating New Paths to Old Landmarks,” followed by a ten-page index.

The need for this work is captured in Wacker’s first paragraph:

“Four score and seven years ago” – or so it now seems – I wrote a long essay on “Bibliography and Historiography” for the landmark Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements (1988). For a young historian wading into uncharted waters, it was, I hope, a useful effort. Yet looking at that essay today, I am shocked – though not really surprised – by the topics that I shortchanged. The most notable was Oneness Pentecostalism.

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Bits and Pieces ….

Daniel Segraves
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As I mentioned in my post on February 15, 2023, I had the opportunity on February 26, 2023 to present a lecture on The Messiah in the Psalms to interested members of the general board of the United Pentecostal Church International. I posted a PowerPoint presentation including 135 slides to be sure all the information I wanted to share would be available to attendees. I’m leaving that presentation on my blog so anyone can make use of it.

Just as a point of interest, I noticed those who viewed my blog that day included people from the United States of America, Poland, Canada, India, Ghana, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Jamaica. Not only did viewers search the blog’s archives, they also looked specifically at posts titled “The Messiah in the Psalms,” “The Holy Spirit in the Book of Romans,” “A Response to Calvin Beisner’s Explanation of Acts 2:38,” “Daily Wisdom 234: Proverbs 11:17,” “Another Look at ‘Delivering Up the Kingdom,’ “The Day I Wore My Suspenders to School,” “The Spirit of the Lord in the Minor Prophets,” and “The Encyclopedia Brittanica and Baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ.”

Concerning Asbury University and my book Andrew D. Urshan: A Theological Biography. Most readers of this blog probably have some level of awareness of the recent move of the Holy Spirit at Asbury University. I am thankful for the Spirit’s work wherever, whenever, and however it occurs. When we first heard what was going on in Wilmore, Kentucky, my wife Susan reminded me that there was a connection between Asbury and my book about Andrew D. Urshan. The connection is that the book is published by Emeth Press, a publisher of academic books. The book is included in the series known as The Asbury Theological Seminary Series in World Christian Revitalization Movements. “Emeth” is a Hebrew word. Its range of meaning includes firmness, trustworthiness, constancy, duration, faithfulness, and truth. If you are interested in checking out information about my book, you can do so at http://www.emethpress.com. The book is available also at pentecostalpublishing.com and amazon.com.

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