By J. Lee Grady
East Monument Street on downtown Baltimore’s east side is not far from the city’s gleaming Inner Harbor district. But the neighborhood I visited on Saturday is no tourist attraction. It is known for drugs, panhandlers and boarded-up apartments.
By Steve Strang
A great revival took place in Wales in 1904. Sadly there is little to show today for the effects of that revival. Two years later the Pentecost revival started at Azusa Street in Los Angeles. The black church where it started actually closed around 1930. But the revival it generated continues to include more than 400 million people around the world today.
By Grant McClung
In 2001 some 45,000 Christians gathered in Cape Town, South Africa for a unified prayer service for the nations. There the vision for the annual “Global Day of Prayer” was born (see www.globaldayofprayer.com).
By J. Lee Grady
In the days of Jesus, rabbis observed a myriad of extra rules that were not in Scripture. Their legalistic code focused on what they could and could not touch. These guys invented the original version of the holier-than-thou religion.
By Grant McClung
Today – May 1 is “Ascension Day,” marking the day when Jesus Christ ascended up into heaven, as recorded in Acts 1.3-11. Unfortunately, many know nothing about the observance of Ascension Day.
By J. Lee Grady
Todd Bentley is not exactly your grandmother’s evangelist, but that didn’t stop grandmothers from lining up to get prayer from the 32-year-old preacher last week when he opened his 14th straight night of revival meetings in Lakeland, Fla.
