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 [...]
The Booth Family Legacy
BY WARREN L. MAYE
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) asserts. But how that outcome manifests can be complex and complicated. Take for example the family of William and Catherine Booth, founders of The Salvation Army. This Methodist couple had [...]