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  What Did Smith Wigglesworth Teach About Faith and Prayer?

  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.

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  What Was Jack Coe’s Herald of Healing? How a Revival Magazine Reached Readers

  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.

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  What Do A. A. Allen’s Revival Recordings Show About Healing Evangelism?

  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.

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  Why Did Maria Woodworth-Etter’s Meetings Become Known for Trances?

  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.

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  How Did Aimee Semple McPherson Use KFSG Radio to Preach?

  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.

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  What Did Kathryn Kuhlman Emphasize About the Holy Spirit?

  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.

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  What Did John Alexander Dowie Teach About Divine Healing?

  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.

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  Why Did Oral Roberts Found Oral Roberts University? Whole-Person Education Explained

  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.

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  What Is William Branham’s Message? How to Read His Sermons With Discernment

  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.

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  How Did Kenneth E. Hagin Read Mark 11:23–24? Faith, Prayer, and Confession

  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.

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  Who Was John Wycliffe? The English Bible Before the Printing Press

  John Wycliffe was a medieval Oxford theologian whose followers produced a complete Middle English Bible from the Latin Vulgate. His work belongs to the fourteenth century, generations before the Protestant Reformation and the first printed English New Testament.

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  Who Was Jan Hus? The Prague Preacher Before the Reformation

  Jan Hus was a Czech preacher and theologian who called for church reform in early fifteenth-century Bohemia. He preached at Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, drew on some of John Wycliffe’s ideas, and was executed after condemnation at the Council of Constance in 1415.

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  Why Did Martin Luther Write the Ninety-Five Theses?

  Martin Luther wrote the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 to dispute the preaching and sale of indulgences. The document circulated in print and helped set the Protestant Reformation in motion. Its original form was an invitation to debate.

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  How Did William Tyndale Shape the English Bible?

  William Tyndale translated the New Testament from Greek into English and saw it printed in 1526. He also translated portions of the Old Testament from Hebrew. His language helped shape later English Bibles, including the King James Version.

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  Who Was John Calvin? Geneva, the Institutes, and the Reformed Tradition

  John Calvin was a French Reformation theologian and pastor whose Institutes of the Christian Religion helped define the Reformed tradition. His ministry in Geneva connected writing and preaching with the practical task of organizing a church.

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  Who Was John Knox? From Geneva to the Scottish Reformation

  John Knox was a Scottish preacher and a leading figure in Scotland’s Protestant Reformation. His years in exile included ministry in Geneva. He returned to Scotland and helped shape the movement associated with the Scots Confession of 1560.

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  Who Was Heinrich Bullinger? The Reformer Who Succeeded Zwingli

  Heinrich Bullinger succeeded Huldrych Zwingli as leader of the Zurich church in 1531. Through preaching, correspondence, and the Second Helvetic Confession, he helped give the Swiss Reformation continuity and influence beyond Zurich.

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  Who Was Charles Grandison Finney? Revival Preaching and the Second Great Awakening

  Charles Grandison Finney was a nineteenth-century American revivalist and later president of Oberlin College. His evangelistic work, including meetings in Rochester, New York, belongs to the Second Great Awakening.

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  Who Was George Whitefield? Open-Air Preaching and the First Great Awakening

  George Whitefield was an Anglican evangelist whose traveling and open-air preaching helped spread the First Great Awakening. His colonial tour of 1739–41 brought his emphasis on conversion and the new birth to audiences across British America.

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  Who Was Jonathan Edwards? What He Looked For in a Revival

  Jonathan Edwards was a New England pastor and theologian who recorded the Northampton awakening of 1734–35. His writings on religious affections asked how Christians could weigh claims of spiritual awakening over time.

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  What Is the Difference Between Revival and Reformation?

  Revival describes renewed spiritual life, often expressed in repentance, prayer, and a fresh response to the Gospel. Reformation describes lasting changes in teaching, practice, or institutions. They can overlap when people respond to Scripture and then change the habits that shape their community.

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  What Was the First Great Awakening? A Bible Study on Revival

  The First Great Awakening was a wave of eighteenth-century Christian revivals that spread through Britain's American colonies. Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield emphasized conversion and the new birth. Acts 2 gives Christians a Biblical starting point for weighing what spiritual awakening produces.