By Larry Ray Hafley By now everyone has heard about the neutered Bible. God is not to be referred to as our “Father.” He is now our heavenly Parent. Jesus is the “child of God,” not the Son of God. (So, we must, I suppose, be baptized in the name of the Parent, the Sibling and …
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A Biographical Sketch: Robert Harold Schuller
By Daniel W. Petty Robert Schuller was born in 1926 in northwestern Iowa, and belonged to the stock of Dutch immigrants who were attracted there in the late nineteenth century by the soil and by the opportunity to practice their Calvinistic faith without state interference. The Schuller family was part of the Reformed Church in America …
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A Biographical Sketch: Oral Roberts
By Steve Wolfgang Second in prominence and influence only to Billy Graham, Oral Roberts has had a major impact upon the American religious scene over the past forty years. At least two factors contributed to Roberts’ prominence. First, he was and is the most recognizable “leading light” among the Pentecostal, neo-Pentecostal, and charismatic movements – numerically …
A Biographical Sketch: Jerry Falwell
By Steve Wolfgang Jerry Falwell is perhaps the quintessential media- made preacher. When he graduated from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, MO in 1956 and returned home to Lynchburg, VA, he was a virtual unknown. He started a little church with 35 people in a rented pop-bottling plant. He proved to be a tireless worker, canvassing …