B.A., Lee College, 1977
M.Div., Church of God School of Theology, 1983
D.Th., University of South Africa, 2007
Dr. Martin is Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages and James W. Hamilton Professor of Teaching Lay Involvement. He has taught at the Seminary since 1992. He served as a Church of God pastor from 1977-2004 and was ordained in 1983. He also served as a District Overseer, State Youth and CE Board member, State Council member, State Director of Ministerial Development, and State Ordination Board member. He has preached in Church of God State Conventions, Prayer Conferences, youth camps, and pastors' conferences. He has taught Bible Institutes, Ministerial Development Institutes, and Ministerial Internship Seminars, as well as classes at Lee University, the Korean Bible Seminary, the Puerto Rican extension of PTS, the Asian Seminary (Manila), the Seminario Sudamericano (Quito), the Seminario Bíblico Pentecostal Centroamericano (Guatemala), and the Seminaire Theologique de l'Eglise de Dieu en Haiti.
Dr. Martin has written more than 40 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters. His published books include the following: Biblical Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Basic Concepts of Bible Study (2024), Daniel: A Translation and Commentary (2024), A Worshiping People: A Pentecostal Study of Vibrant Worship for the Believer (2024), Psalms: A Concise Commentary (2023), Clothed with the Spirit: Lessons from the Book of Judges (2022); Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Worship, 2nd edn (2020), The Spirit of the Psalms (2018); Toward a Theology of Pentecostal Preaching (2015), Fasting: A Centre for Pentecostal Theology Short Introduction (2014), Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader (2013), and A Future For Holiness: Pentecostal Explorations (2013), An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (2009), and The Unheard Voice of God: A Pentecostal Hearing of the Book of Judges (2008).
His most recent articles in academic journals include: ‘Questions of Peace: Judges 6:11-32 and the Obstacles to Harmony between Gideon and His Elders’; ‘A Pentecostal Reception History of the Book of Judges’; ‘The Holy Spirit in the Book of Psalms’; ‘The Chiastic Structure of Psalm 106’, ‘Longing for God: Psalm 63 and Pentecostal Spirituality’; ‘Delighting in the Torah: The Affective Dimension of Psalm 1’; ‘“Where are all his wonders?”: The Exodus Motif in the Book of Judges’; and ‘Power to Save!?: The Role of the Spirit of The LORD in the Book of Judges’.
Dr. Martin also serves as Editor of the Journal of Pentecostal Theology and is a Past President of The Society for Pentecostal Studies.
He is married to the former Karen Arlene Luke, and they have two sons, one daughter and two grandchildren.
email: lmartin@ptseminary.edu
