‘Healing Pioneers’ series During his lifetime, Oral Roberts was the most famous Christian evangelist, next to Billy Graham. In the 1980s, he was so well-known that he was recognized by 84 percent of Americans. His rallies were really two parallel crusades on the same evening. Like his hero Billy Graham, Roberts would spend the first half of his Crusades preaching the gospel … [Read more...] about Oral Roberts: Two Folded Healing Hands
Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird
Books by Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird include God's Firestarters; Blue Sky, a novel; and For Better, For Worse: Discovering the keys to a Lasting Relationship. Dr Ed’s newest award-winning book The Elisha Code is co-authored with Rev. David Kitz. Earlier books by Dr. Ed include the award-winning Battle for the Soul of Canada, and Restoring Health: Body, Mind, & Spirit.
Dawson Trotman: Navigating Life
Without his good friend Dawson Trotman, Billy Graham would not have had such a lasting impact on millions of people. Trotman, the founder of Navigators, was known as the apostle of follow-up. He was an inventive genius. So many thousands were giving their lives to Christ at Billy Graham’s rallies that he became deeply troubled about the lack of follow-up. Worried about the … [Read more...] about Dawson Trotman: Navigating Life
Bill Wilson and Rev. Sam Shoemaker: 12-Step Pioneers
From 1917 until 1919, Sam Shoemaker served as a YMCA missionary in China. In January 1918, Sam met a fellow missionary to China, Frank Buchman, founder of the Oxford Group where he experienced a profound spiritual renewal through the "Four Absolutes" of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love. Absolute Purity means to find some all-consuming and high faith and purpose which … [Read more...] about Bill Wilson and Rev. Sam Shoemaker: 12-Step Pioneers
John & Paula Sandford: Healing the Family
Many people are fascinated with science fiction, the battlefield worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek. John and Paula Sandford, as healing theologians, knew that the great arena of battle is inner space, rather than outer space. With their Elijah House ministry, their passion was to evangelize the unbelieving areas of the believer’s heart. They felt called to "restore the hearts … [Read more...] about John & Paula Sandford: Healing the Family
Benjamin Franklin and Jesus
I remember as a young child being taught Benjamin Franklin’s proverb: ‘Early to bed, early to rise, makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.’ As my father and I were both early to bed, early to rise, I have a lot of happy memories of time spent together around the breakfast table together at 6 am. Benjamin Franklin had the common touch. As a brilliant philosopher, he … [Read more...] about Benjamin Franklin and Jesus