Pentecostal Persecution The separate black and white streams in Azusa Street Revival movement were not the way it began, and obviously was not the way that the Lord wanted it. The spiritual battle that began to rage against the baptism in the Holy Spirit itself was probably the most fierce persecution that Christians had experienced at the hands … [Read more...]

Over the last two millenniums, the church has experienced many revivals, renewals and reformation movements. Like the Welsh Revival, some have been used to spur entire church to spiritual advancement. In its far-reaching impact on the world and the church, none have equalled the Azusa Street Revival which began in 1906. One hundred years later its … [Read more...]

This is Part 4 of some of the reports that were first published in 1925, under the title, "How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles." Bartleman put the book together from his journal, written during the days of the revival, as well as from news articles. Later he condensed these articles, and his diary notes, into that book. He wrote numerous diary like … [Read more...]

As we’ve chronicled in our previous posts here and here, Frank Bartleman became one of the key players in Azusa Street Revival. He was a man of passion and deep burden. His prayers literally opened the heavens, and his messages were withering to all that was of the flesh. Everything that stood as an obstruction to the full exaltation of Jesus … [Read more...]

Frank Bartleman was born in eastern Pennsylvania, was converted in 1892, and was licensed to preach by a local Baptist church shortly after that. Although he attended a year at a night school run by his church, and briefly attended Moody Bible Institute, and read many books by religious writers, it appears most of his knowledge and doctrine came … [Read more...]

As we've already covered in Part 1 of this study, Frank Bartleman was one of the men God used at Azusa Street Revival. His eyewitness account captured fascinating details about the revival, which give insight into the great chasm between today's biblical Christianity and the then-present state of the church. Bartleman offered some cautionary … [Read more...]

William Joseph Seymour (1870-1922) and Frank Bartleman (1871-1936) are two names that are most associated with the Azusa Street Revival. They were different in many ways but they were both young men who had an uncommon desire to know the Lord and see His power restored to the church. Seymour, an African American minister was born as the son of … [Read more...]

Martin Luther’s Reformation occurred when England was going through a period of intense spiritual darkness. There reached a period, not only in Britain but also over all Europe, when the pure, original gospel was lost and great spiritual and moral darkness followed. So England entirely lost her original biblical Jewish-Christian … [Read more...]

October 31, 2017, is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany. This reformer was born in 1483 to a wealthy German mining family. He attended a Latin school run by a medieval lay group dedicated to the study of the Bible and graduated from the University of Erfurt, where he … [Read more...]