Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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, […] …
That sentiment came to mind when I read this comment on my posting of the Word of God album All of Your People: I was worship leader in an Antioch CA prayer group and an Assemblies of God mission for 5 years in the '90's where I used these songs. I first heard them at …
One of the hardest parts of getting older is seeing loved ones, friends and colleagues pass away. It's not often that I do a tribute to one of them, in part because a) my audience is very diverse, most people aren't known to a wide range and b) if I did it I would pretty …
Last post I quoted a missionary to the Middle East who was having good ministry in spite of the social distancing restrictions. In a place like that, not being able to gather en masse isn't as big of a change as it is here. But not having live services has spared me a conflict that …
I saw this in a recent newsletters from missionaries in the Middle East. Although they're not Americans, they were in the U.S. for medical treatment unrelated to COVID-19. They dodged the chaos of cancelled flights and quarantines to get back to the field and report this: We thank God that he protected us and gave …
