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The Christian Response to Hunger and Poverty
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008This article, originally published in our November 24, 2002 issue, has been reprinted in several publications since then. With Thanksgiving and World Hunger Day approaching, we offer this reprise of an important topic.
“Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, ‘Go, I wish you well; […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 2000s
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Completing our series covering all the decades of the Pentecostal Evangel.
In 2000, I was privileged to spend 10 days in Alaska. This is my report, published November 26, 2000.
Alaska
10 days in the Last Frontier
By Ken Horn
Alaska — the Last Frontier. The Aleuts called it Alyeska, the Great Land. And great it is — 586,000 […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1990s
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Continuing our series covering all the decades of the Pentecostal Evangel.
When two disturbed high school students in Littleton, Colorado, hatched a devilish plan to kill students and faculty at Columbine High School, 17-year-old Rachel Scott, a hopeful missionary candidate, was one of 13 victims in their sights. This April 1999 tragedy—worse even than shootings […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1980s
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Continuing our series with Straight Talk.
The ’80s saw an explosion of immorality in America. Rather than shy away from topics that might be considered taboo, the Evangel chose to address personal issues of sin from a frank and biblical perspective.
Teenagers need standards, not contraceptives
By Michael P. Horban, May 20, 1984
Their motive may be unassailable, but […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1950s
Monday, September 8th, 20081950s
Revivaltime Network Premiere A Success
When Revivaltime went on the ABC Radio Network, in December 1953, little could anyone predict that it would be on the air for the next 40 years. For 25 of those years C. M. Ward was the radio evangelist. Dan Betzer followed Ward and completed the remaining 15 […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1940s
Tuesday, September 2nd, 20081940s
Our Remarkable Deliverance from Los Banos Internment Camp
Blanche Appleby and Rena Baldwin were two of nine Assemblies of God missionaries, and children who were interned in December 1941 by the Japanese military on Luzon, in the Philippine Islands. The U. S. Army rescued seven of the missionaries and their children on February 3, […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1920s
Monday, August 25th, 2008In the Whitened Harvest Fields
As we view the reasons for the growth of the Assemblies of God in the first two decades of its existence, we must not overlook the evangelist and revival meetings. They opened cities to the Pentecostal message and helped strengthen struggling storefront churches to grow and move from the wrong […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Articles: A Series
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Today’s Pentecostal Evangel is 95 years old, one year older than the Assemblies of God. I will be reprinting a series of past articles here on my blog, one from each prior decade.
The Indispensable Role of the Pentecostal Evangel [from 1919]
The Assemblies of God was organized in 1914, and from the beginning the Pentecostal Evangel […]
