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By: Frank G. Tunstall I have returned home rejoicing at the work of the Holy Spirit in the General Conference in Orlando. My first General Conference was 1961 in Richmond. Emmanuel’s President W. G. Drum sent me on a train as a freshman college student to make a speech representing Emmanuel College. I’ve attended all of them […]
christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2017/may/1000-churches-in-your-lifetime.html Ed Stetzer will be one of the speakers at the upcoming IPHC General Conference. — Pastor Frank By: Ed Stetzer Churches need to be planted and then quickly need to plant other churches. In order to start a movement and plant 1,000 churches in your lifetime, you need to think about church planting through […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall God massively intervened in history in first century Israel in four sovereign acts of divine power that changed the course of history. The first was the incarnation of God’s Son conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary without a sexual union. God “became flesh and blood […]
What do triplets and DNA have to say about the gift of the Holy Spirit? By: Frank G. Tunstall I invite you to release your imagination and picture what Jesus was saying as He began to teach His disciples on the night of the Last Supper about the gift of the Holy Spirit. It was […]
charismamag.com/spirit/supernatural/28155-revivalist-i-went-to-hell-in-a-dream During this night of terror more than 25 years ago, I fell asleep in the old, empty church building and found myself dreaming. By: John Burton 11/25/2016 In my dream, I was lying on my stomach in a one-room building. It was very comfortable inside, although the room was empty. I rested on […]
By: Frank Tunstall When [the Holy Spirit] comes, He will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in Me; 10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall The masterpiece portrait of the “righteous Father” is Jesus Himself, our sinless Savior (John 8:46;17:25). He was impaled on three nails on a splintered cross to save all who repent and accept Him as the Son of God. We so easily look at our sins and justify ourselves, thinking my sins […]
http://www.sermoncentral.com/pastors-preaching-articles/hal-seed-will-more-invitations-result-in-more-salvations-2592.asp? By Hal Seed // PastorMentor.com For a long time I’ve wondered if there is a relationship between the number of salvations a church experiences, and the number of times it offers salvation invitations. We’ll never know for sure, but I’m conducting an experiment this year. For a long time I’ve wondered if there is […]
By: Frank G. Tunstall “It was tough going when I joined the South Carolina Conference in 1916,” Tom Evans told me when I was editor of the Advocate and visited him and Molly in their retirement home in Florence, S.C. in 1979. “There was so much persecution. Our ministers conducted revivals under street lights after […]
By Trevor Grundy Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing movements in world Christendom, with an estimated 500 million followers. “A century ago the face of European Christianity could have been labeled as white, but now it is increasingly becoming multicolored,” said Israel Olofinjana, a Nigerian-born minister in London told the Times. While aging Church of […]