Book Excerpts

During my final exams, reports, essays, and rehearsals, of all things imaginable, I succumbed to measles and had to be quarantined in a blacked-out room for several days. Finally, when graduation day arrived, I was certified safe and remained composed

The Azusa Street Revival was a sovereign move of God—a God moment that birthed the modern full-gospel explosion that had positive changing effects across North America and around the world. Was that move of God only a historical landmark to

We preached and sang through the small towns of Northern Saskatchewan. As I wrote to my family while on that trip, I mentioned that I was in Love. Quickly a hurried reply came from Ireland telling me not to act

Students came from everywhere. We all became settled, and for me, it was exactly the right fit. One evening as we all sat in the men’s lounge chatting, someone spoke of this being their year of college. I had never

Armed with that special envelope of endorsement, I embarked on a life-changing journey. Air flights in those days were prohibitively expensive, so I traveled by boat. The Belfast Ferry took me to Liverpool, where I left on the Cunard’s Saxonia

Maria Woodworth-Etter had been active in ministry for some time, but 1885 appears to be the beginning of her ministry in a Pentecostal dimension. In America her ministry was marked with outstanding healings, the Baptism of the Spirit with the

Sometime later after a crusade meeting, Tom Gilchrist and I rode our bicycles from where the taxi dropped us off to his little church. As we arrived very late, from the foyer I heard the pastor say, “Now I have

One evening two boys came from school. One was tall for his age and the other one shorter. At the altar call time, the shorter one stood to be saved, but the taller one pulled him down by his coat.

Before the era of television, sometimes I was allowed to listen to the radio, but not for very long because the acid-filled battery didn’t last long in the days before electricity came to our district. One evening, I found a

At first I couldn’t speak. Then I was able only to speak in an indecipherable stutter. Minutes later, with both parents crouching beside me and with a measure of composure, I sobbed, “If I die in sin, I will go