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...]

Five hundred years ago this week, Martin Luther staged the most important protest movement in history. He was upset because Roman Catholic officials were promising people forgiveness of sins or early escape from purgatory in exchange for money. So on October 31, 1517, Luther nailed a long list of complaints on the door of a church in Wittenberg, … [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...]

John Knox and Queen Mary of England John Knox (1505- 1572) was) was a Scottish minister, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country’s Reformation. In 1557, Knox had found himself confronted with a Queen of England, a Queen of Scotland, and a Queen-Regent in Scotland—all of them ladies immersed in Catholicism, and each in a position … [Read more...]

Kenya’s Birth Pangs From 1957-1961, Kenya was still painfully struggling to recover from the bloody agonies of the Mau Mau movement, which had created bitter mistrust and hatred, not only between Africans and Europeans, but also among many of the various African tribes. At the same time, the country was being hastily prepared for the end of … [Read more...]

The power of prayer and fasting are not confined to the Old Testament kings and prophets, or the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles. The testimony to the power of prayer runs through all the long history of Christianity. It shapes the lives and the history of nations, and most of us have seen it demonstrated in our experience on many … [Read more...]

The dictionary definition of restoration is “to revive and return to life” or “to bring back to a former or original condition.” This definition falls short of all that restoration in God means. God intends to do more than bring us back to a former or original condition. Restoration begins multiplication! When you study the process of restoration, … [Read more...]

When most of us think of the wee hours of the morning, we think of sleep. However, many believers, whether because of insomnia, physical pain, a small baby, or a vocation that requires a night shift sleep schedule, have experienced being awake in the night. Rather then being times of anxiety or stress, these can become times of encounter with the … [Read more...]