Bible studies
Browse page 15 of Vince Baker Ministries’ Bible studies, quote studies, and revival history archive.
Revival history
A. A. Allen (1911–1970), whose full name was Asa Alonso Allen, was an American healing evangelist. Miracle Valley, Arizona, became a base for his ministry and appears throughout the films and printed material his organization produced.
Read: Who Was A. A. Allen? Miracle Valley and His Arizona Revival Ministry
Revival history
Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924) was an American evangelist whose public meetings began before the Azusa Street Revival. She preached in tents and halls, and later Pentecostal readers recognized parallels between her ministry and their own experiences of the Holy Spirit.
Read: Who Was Maria Woodworth-Etter? A Woman Evangelist Before Azusa Street
Revival history
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) was a Canadian-born evangelist who founded the Foursquare Church and opened Angelus Temple in Los Angeles in 1923. Her ministry brought together public preaching, congregational life, broadcasting, and practical service.
Read: Who Was Aimee Semple McPherson? Angelus Temple and the Foursquare Church
Revival history
Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976) was an American healing evangelist known for services in Pittsburgh and a syndicated broadcast ministry. Her meetings often included prayer, worship, and testimony from people who said they had experienced healing.
Read: Who Was Kathryn Kuhlman? Pittsburgh Miracle Services and Her Healing Ministry
Revival history
John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907) was a Scottish-born minister who preached Divine healing, built a following in Chicago, and founded Zion City in Illinois in 1901. His project brought a religious movement into the everyday life of a planned community.
Read: Who Was John Alexander Dowie? Divine Healing and the Founding of Zion, Illinois
Revival history
Oral Roberts (1918–2009) was an American Pentecostal evangelist who took healing ministry from traveling meetings to radio and television. In 1947 he left a pastorate in Enid, Oklahoma, to begin an independent healing ministry.
Read: Who Was Oral Roberts? Healing Tent Meetings, Radio, and Television
Revival history
William Branham (1909–1965) was an American preacher whose campaigns helped draw attention to the postwar Pentecostal healing revival. Gordon Lindsay’s work with Branham and The Voice of Healing helped circulate news of the campaigns among readers beyond the meeting venues.
Read: Who Was William Branham? The Postwar Healing Revival and The Voice of Healing
Revival history
Kenneth E. Hagin (1917–2003), born Kenneth Erwin Hagin, was an American Bible teacher and a central figure in the Word of Faith movement. Rhema Bible Training College extended his ministry through a formal program for students.
Read: Who Was Kenneth E. Hagin? Rhema Bible Training College and Word of Faith
Revival history
Smith Wigglesworth taught that Christians should trust God’s Word and respond to it in prayer and obedience. His 1924 collection Ever Increasing Faith is a useful starting point for studying that teaching in its original sermon form.
Read: What Did Smith Wigglesworth Teach About Faith and Prayer?
Revival history
The Herald of Healing was a magazine Jack Coe began in 1950 to document his healing evangelism. Digitized issues show how a traveling ministry used print to reach readers beyond the cities where it held meetings.
Read: What Was Jack Coe’s Herald of Healing? How a Revival Magazine Reached Readers
Revival history
A. A. Allen’s surviving films and recordings show how a midcentury revival ministry presented preaching, prayer, and testimony to audiences outside the meeting. Asbury Theological Seminary’s digital collection includes documentaries and raw footage that can be compared as different kinds of source.
Read: What Do A. A. Allen’s Revival Recordings Show About Healing Evangelism?
Revival history
Accounts of Maria Woodworth-Etter’s revival meetings sometimes describe participants becoming still or unresponsive in experiences contemporaries called trances. Such reports helped make her services a subject of public interest and debate.
Read: Why Did Maria Woodworth-Etter’s Meetings Become Known for Trances?
Revival history
Aimee Semple McPherson used KFSG, the radio station associated with Angelus Temple, to carry preaching beyond the temple’s Los Angeles congregation. Foursquare’s history dates this phase of her work to February 1924.
Read: How Did Aimee Semple McPherson Use KFSG Radio to Preach?
Revival history
Kathryn Kuhlman’s public ministry put attention on the Holy Spirit through worship, preaching, and healing testimony. Her meetings drew people from different church traditions, making her ministry a useful case study in the wider charismatic renewal.
Read: What Did Kathryn Kuhlman Emphasize About the Holy Spirit?
Revival history
John Alexander Dowie promoted prayer for healing through the Divine Healing Association and the religious movement that later centered on Zion, Illinois. His teaching and organizing are documented in early records, including a federal census account and surviving issues of Leaves of Healing.
Read: What Did John Alexander Dowie Teach About Divine Healing?
Revival history
Oral Roberts founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1963. The school received its first class in 1965 and developed an educational mission that gives attention to intellectual, physical, and spiritual growth.
Read: Why Did Oral Roberts Found Oral Roberts University? Whole-Person Education Explained
Revival history
The Message is a name used by followers for the teachings associated with William Branham. Sermon recordings helped preserve his voice and circulate his teaching after his death in 1965. His legacy includes both his earlier healing campaigns and a later body of teaching that readers should examine in context.
Read: What Is William Branham’s Message? How to Read His Sermons With Discernment
Revival history
Kenneth E. Hagin’s Word of Faith teaching often returned to Mark 11:23–24. He emphasized the relationship between trusting God, speaking in faith, and believing in prayer. Reading Jesus’ full conversation with the disciples gives that emphasis its Biblical context.
Read: How Did Kenneth E. Hagin Read Mark 11:23–24? Faith, Prayer, and Confession
Faith
Biblical faith is trusting God and acting on what He says before you can see the outcome.
Read: What Is Biblical Faith? Hebrews 11 Explained
Faith
Romans 10:17 connects faith with hearing the message of Christ.
Read: How Does Faith Come by Hearing? Romans 10:17
Faith
James 1 teaches that tested faith produces endurance, and 1 Peter 1 compares proven faith to gold refined by fire.
Read: Why Is Faith Tested in the Bible?
Faith
Jesus uses the mustard seed to show that seemingly small faith can accomplish what appears impossible when it depends on God.
Read: What Does Faith Like a Mustard Seed Mean?
Faith
In Mark 11:22–25, Jesus uses the image of speaking to a mountain to teach bold faith in God and believing prayer.
Read: What Does It Mean to Speak to the Mountain in Mark 11?
Prayer
The prayer of faith in James 5 is prayer offered in trust in the Lord.
Read: What Is the Prayer of Faith in James 5?Live online every Saturday
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