How The Holy Spirit Leads Us

By Larry Ray Hafley False ideas of the Holy Spirit’s work are at the bottom of much that is to be regretted in the spiritual culture and movement of our times. This one-sided supernaturalism of Mr. Moody is the most conspicuous feature in his ministry, and the unquestionable source of the greater part of his remarkable …

TV Ministries and the Plan of Salvation

By Stephen P. Willis (TV Evangelist): “God loves you, He really does I ” – I had a strong temptation to end this article here, leaving an empty page. When I was young, I saw a 400-page book entitled, Scriptural Arguments in Favor of Instrumental Music. The title was on the book’s spine. AD of the …

A Biographical Sketch: Jim and Tammy Bakker

By Daniel W. Petty Bakker was born in 1940, the son of a poor Muskegon, Michigan factory worker. In his autobiography, Move That Mountain (1976, 1985), Bakker tells of suffering from an inferiority complex as a child. He attributes his conversion to a tragic experience in high school at the age of eighteen. While playing hooky …

A Biographical Sketch: Rex Bombard

By Daniel W. Petty Alpha Rex Humbard, born in 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and raised mostly in Hot Springs, grew up in a family of itinerant Pentecostal evangelists. As a child, Rex traveled regularly with the family, singing and playing the guitar in the family’s evangelistic performances. After graduation from high school, Rex joined his …