Strangers to Fire : When Tradition Trumps Scripture

This is an anthology of 35 essays edited by Robert W. Graves, President of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship; written by 26 authors of the Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Third Wave movements or non-cessationists of traditional denominations responding to John F. MacArthur's Strange Fire or cessationism and the abuse of the charismata in general. Foreword by J. Lee Grady.

Authors include Wayne Grudem, Jack Deere, Craig Keener, Jon Ruthven, Sam Storms, Doug Oss, Mel Robeck, Paul Elbert, Randy Clark, Robert Menzies, J. P. Moreland, Gary Greig, Mark Rutland, Gary Shogren, William De Arteaga, William K. Kay, and Melvin Hodges.

Robert W. Graves is the author of The Gospel according to Angels (Chosen Books/1998) and Praying in the Spirit (Chosen Books/1987). His writings have appeared in Moody Monthly, Christian Parenting Today, Ministries Today, Pentecostal Evangel, Church of God Evangel and numerous other publications. He has a master s degree in English from Georgia State University and has taught at Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, and Southwestern Assemblies of God College. In 2001, he began writing fiction. His short stories The Professor's Midnight Dream and Worn Carpet were the first-place winners of the 2006 and 2010 Christian Authors Guild fiction contest. His short story The Altar was published by Gospel Publishing House and won first place in the 2006 2007 Fiction Writing contest of the Southern Christian Writers Conference. His latest publications are non-fiction: Strangers to Fire: When Tradition Trumps Scripture (2016), a 600-page anthology on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and their continuation in the church today, which he edited and contributed two chapters to, and The Poet as Prophet, Wander, and Pilgrim in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (2015). Graves is the president and co-founder of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship, Inc.