Transitions
BY LT. COLONEL CINDY-LOU DRUMMOND
Occasionally, I detect a theme to a season in my life. The present is no exception. Over the last six months, the theme of “transition” emerged. I transitioned from one [...]
The Season of Lent
BY COMMISSIONER G. LORRAINE BAMFORD
We are in the midst of the season of Lent. However, Lent is not a season or a holiday or even an observance. In truth, it’s a time [...]
How Come They Got to Experience Revival?
BY MAJOR PHILIP LLOYD
With the recent events surrounding what has become known as the Asbury Revival of 2023 and subsequent events emerging on college campuses [...]
Another Great Awakening?
BY ROBERT MITCHELL
The revival fires of the Second Great Awakening broke out in Kentucky in the early 1800s and another movement of the Holy Spirit began on February 8 [...]
Ministering to the poor
BY ROBERT JEFFERY
Looking back to the origins of The Salvation Army, many people are quick to point out that it wasn’t William Booth’s intention to start a church. This is an overstatement of the truth [...]
Revival: The work of the Spirit intensified
Just like lightning in the sky, revivals appear in this world from time to time. They might burn for only a few months; they might go on for years. They might capture a [...]
A Presidents’ Day Message
BY COLONEL IVAN ROCK
Presidents’ Day, originally billed as a time to celebrate the birth of George Washington, is a day to honor leaders of years past. This day offers us an opportunity to contemplate the type of leadership we need as a society and as a church.
1929: a time for reform
BY WARREN L. MAYE
In the 1920s, the world enjoyed a growing prosperity, levity, and optimism. In the United States, the era became known as the “Roaring Twenties.” A surging economy, [...]
Raising the age of consent
BY WARREN L. MAYE
The law, as it stood in the early 1880s, said that a young woman of 13 was legally competent to consent to her own seduction. Girls under the age [...]
The fundamentals of evangelism
BY ROBERT MITCHELL
Nothing was going to keep Betty Lou and James Hruska from attending this year’s National Seminar on Evangelism (NSE) in Texas, not even when a devastating fire destroyed their [...]