Roberts Liardon

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the [...]

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When I was still in my teens, God called me into the ministry. He wasn’t telling me that He wanted me to go into the ministry “someday.” He was telling me that He wanted me to start preaching “right now.” Not everybody was thrilled with the idea of a boy-preacher. I heard comments like, “You’re [...]

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What had happened to the word the Lord had given him that he was to bring the message of God’s healing power to his generation? Most of the people in the churches he served did not believe in or seem to care about the healing power of Christ. Oral recalls, “At this time, I had [...]

Roberts Liardon tells us that from the time of his dramatic conver­sion and healing from tuberculosis at the age of seventeen until he went home to be with the Lord at the age of eighty-three, Lester Sumrall lived a life of obedience. He spent hours seeking the Lord’s will and learned to hear His voice [...]

Roberts Liardon tells us that there was nothing ordinary about these newlyweds. After a brief honeymoon in Niagara Falls, Canada, Lester and Louise planned their first missionary journey together. The rest of the world was still wrapped up in the battles of World War II, so the Sumralls headed back to South America. For Lester [...]

“Mystery! Wonder! Providence! Here I was on my way to Australia to meet and travel around the world with a man I had only met once. How strange.” This excerpt is from Lester’s diary entry on the first day sailing on the R.M.S. Makura for Australia. Lester was reflecting with amazement on how the Lord [...]

Phillips, on the other hand, had grown up in a family that had monetary experience. Among his father’s side of the family was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London, as well as others who had been financiers and businessmen in both Great Britain and South Africa. His father had become a Christian and had [...]

When George was fifteen years old, his life changed radically, as did the life of his brother Stephen. A Spirit-filled young man named Evan Roberts began preaching throughout the Welsh countryside, bringing a powerful move of the Holy Spirit wherever he went.   From the age of thirteen, Roberts had cried out for a visit [...]

F. F. Bosworth was a simple man with a heart to bring the lost to Christ. He believed that physical healing was included in the atonement and that true healings would draw crowds to hear the message of Christ’s salvation, the ultimate goal. He was also a very deliberate man, so he looked for confirmation [...]

F. F. Bosworth was a frontier evangelist, a pioneer Christian radio broadcaster, one of the most successful healing evangelists of the 1920s, and a man who created a bridge to the healing re­vivalists of the 1940s and 1950s. From his visit to Azusa Street and on, Fred Bosworth was a corner­stone of the modern Pentecostal [...]