Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The reality of COVID 19--instead of just a dreary recitation of statistics--came home when an outbreak took place at the Westmore Church of God in Cleveland, TN. Things haven't gotten any better, with the passing of two of its members. All of this led to this message from its pastor, Kelvin Page: We are …
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This Week in AG History — July 14, 1957 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on AG News, 16 July 2020 Sixty-three years ago, J. Robert Ashcroft delivered a remarkable address that encouraged the Assemblies of God to invest in Christian higher education. Pentecostals must train the next generation of “thinkers and doers,” he surmised, […] …
Anne Carlson Kennedy's post didn't sit too well with him, and he responded as follows: From top to bottom, this “essay” is a mess. The giant, unbroken paragraphs are a slog to read, and the grammar errors and made up words (what is “Tragical” exactly?) are impossible to ignore. But the worst part, perhaps, is …
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That's Bernard Goldberg's sensible suggestion: Here’s the idea: Every white corporate CEO who thinks racism is ingrained in our culture, every white journalist who thinks racism has infected every facet of American life, every politician who thinks this is a fundamentally racist country — all of them should voluntarily give up their jobs, on one …
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This Week in AG History — June 3, 1944 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on AG News, 04 June 2020 What can Pentecostals learn from John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism? Wesley, an Anglican priest in England, helped to lay the foundation for large segments of the evangelical and Pentecostal movements. Despite living […] …
When I was a callow student at Duke University, the verdicts from the Greensboro Killings state trial came in November 1980. Five Klansmen were acquitted of murdering four Communist Party members and an additional man during a protest a year earlier. I considered the result unjust and therefore joined a campus protest rally.But the speeches… via …
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This Week in AG History — May 29, 1937 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on AG News, 28 May 2020 If you attended meetings in the years of the early Pentecostal movement, you might remember a summer church event that included sawdust floors, crude benches, tents, and open tabernacles. Those early tents and brush […] …
A neglected topic taken up by Bossuet in his Elevations on the Mysteries: When God wanted to give Moses the law on Mount Sinai, we read four important things. He descended to the sound of thunder and trumpets. The whole mountain seemed on fire, and one could see a flame break out in a cloud …
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This Week in AG History — May 23, 1954 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on AG News, 21 May 2020 Could there be a task that is more important or more daunting than the evangelization of the world? James Stewart, in a 1954 Pentecostal Evangel article, challenged readers to creatively and proactively fulfill the […] …
This Week in AG History — May 13, 1950 By Glenn W. Gohr Originally published on AG News, 14 May 2020 Did you know that the Assemblies of God owned two passenger planes just after World War II that carried Assemblies of God missionaries overseas? Following World War II, commercial flights were not readily available, […] …
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