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church history

Taking Risks – Shaping Destiny

Five hundred years ago, on October 31, 1517, Brother Martin, a monk and a scholar, approached the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper that would shake the world and send it in another direction. He had struggled for years with the teachings of his beloved church. He had been particularly disturbed by an unprecedented sale of indulgences, the selling of forgiveness by the church for past, present and future sins. But why October 31? November…

The Greatest Miracle of Azusa

The Azusa Street Revival that began on April 9, 1906 is considered by most church historians to be the genesis of the modern-day Pentecostal movement. Life magazine and the USA Today have listed the Azusa Street Revival as being one of the top 100 nation impacting events of the 20th century. The Azusa Street Revival unleashed Christianity’s “next wave” growing to over 500 million adherents world-wide. What happened at Azusa Street during the first three years was to change the…