A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Author: Charles Parham
Publisher: Christian Pentecostal Book
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1475070713

A man that would not let any denomination decide for him what to believe; Charles Fox Parham was drawn by God at a young age. He began to read God's Word with no preconceived knowledge of doctrines or creeds. He maintained that childlike faith into his adult years. In 1900, he helped open a Bible school with the only textbook being the Bible. There was also no tuition charged, and the only requirement was the desire to be obedient to Jesus Christ. On a January night in 1901, the school was gathered in an upper room. They were praying and seeking God with one accord, when suddenly, God poured out the Holy Spirit. They began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave the ability. Read the story of how God transcended denominational lines giving birth to the modern Pentecostal movement. As well as many other teachings and beliefs of Charles Parham- A voice crying in the wilderness. Reprinted and Edited.

Charles Fox Parham

Charles Fox Parham
Author: Larry Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781641238014

Charles Fox Parham is an absorbing and perhaps controversial biography of the founder of modern Pentecostalism. Parham was a deeply flawed individual who nevertheless was used by God to initiate and establish one of the greatest spiritual movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, helping to restore the power of Pentecost to the church and being a catalyst for numerous healings and conversions. Author Dr. Larry Martin is a lifelong Pentecostal with decades of ministry as a pastor, educator, and evangelist. He researched the life of this complicated and contradictory figure for over twenty-five years before writing this book--with a certain degree of hesitancy. By disclosing the whole truth about Parham's life--which has never fully been done before--would it give excessive ammunition to the critics of the Pentecostal and charismatic movements? Martin uncompromisingly exposes Parham's weaknesses, faulty thinking, and transgressions while disassociating his behavior from the movement as a whole, writing with an inside understanding of Pentecostalism and a thoughtful analysis of Parham's life that goes beyond the acknowledgment of human frailty to reveal the work of a sovereign God. If we don't confront the faults of our spiritual fathers, Martin says, we will fail to address the truth in the way the Bible lays bare the faults of some of our greatest biblical heroes of the faith. We must recognize and learn from the weaknesses of others, as well as their achievements. The author of several books on the Asuza Street Revival, the history of early Pentecostals, and the Pentecostal Church of God, Martin presents a much-needed exploration of the life of one of the most influential religious figures of the twentieth century, whose impact is still widely felt today. Includes photos of Parham's life and ministry.

Fields White Unto Harvest

Fields White Unto Harvest
Author: James Goff
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1988-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610751493

With fifty-one million people worldwide actively worshiping in Pentecostal circles, Pentecostalism is not only the single largest movement in Protestantism, but is arguably the single most important religious movement in modern times. But where did these Pentecostals come from? And how did a movement that began obscurely in turn-of-the-century Kansas come to have so much meaning for so many millions of people? This biographical study of Charles Fox Parham offers a fascinating account of this movement’s origins in the American Midwest and of the one man most responsible for giving that movement its identity. An inspired itinerant preacher from the Kansas prairies, Parham pieced together the unique Pentecostal theology and dedicated his short life to spreading his message of divine hope—a message that was to strike a responsive chord in the hearts of a hard-working people discouraged by frequent economic depression. His story is one of both triumph and defeat, the saga of a sickly farm boy who by the age of thirty-three had converted almost ten thousand followers and yet, less than five years later, had fallen into obscurity, his name besmirched by scandal and his leadership repudiated by the very movement he had struggled so tirelessly to inspire. Exhaustively researched, Fields White Unto Harvest is an in-depth study of the sociological significance of the Pentecostal movement, its roots in the evangelical thought of the late nineteenth century, and the several directions of its growth in the twentieth. Through Parham’s story, woven into a fascinating narrative by James Goff, we achieve a new understanding of the man behind the movement that would eventually alter the landscape of American religious history.

The Everlasting Gospel

The Everlasting Gospel
Author: Charles Parham
Publisher: Christian Pentecostal Book
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1480011657

Charles F. Parham was one of the founders of Bethel Healing Home and a new type of Bible school in Topeka, Kansas. He was among some of the first recorded people in the United States to receive the Pentecostal outpouring as described in the Book of Acts. He took the message of baptism of the Holy Spirit wherever he went, proclaiming the true power of God that still manifests itself among believers today. This "Everlasting Gospel" and many other prophetic teachings of Charles Parham are recorded in this book. Originally written and published in 1911.

Restoring the Faith

Restoring the Faith
Author: Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1993
Genre: Pentecostalism
ISBN: 9780252062810

American Pentecostalism began as a culturally isolated sect intent upon announcing the imminence of the world's end. The sect's early millenarian fervor gradually became muted in favor of flag-waving patriotism. At the end of the twentieth century it has become an affluent, worldwide movement thoroughly entrenched in popular culture. Edith Blumhofer uses the Assemblies of God, the largest classical Pentecostal denomination in the world, as a lens through which to view the changing nature of Anglo Pentecostalism in the United States. She illustrates how the original mission to proclaim the end resulted in the development of Bible schools, the rise of the charismatic movement, and the popularity of such figures as Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Fox Parham, and David Du Plessis. Blumhofer also examines the sect's use of radio and television and the creation of a parallel Christian culture

Heaven Below

Heaven Below
Author: Grant WACKER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674044738

In this lively history of the rise of pentecostalism in the United States, Grant Wacker gives an in-depth account of the religious practices of pentecostal churches as well as an engaging picture of the way these beliefs played out in daily life. The core tenets of pentecostal belief--personal salvation, Holy Ghost baptism, divine healing, and anticipation of the Lord's imminent return--took root in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Wacker examines the various aspects of pentecostal culture, including rituals, speaking in tongues, the authority of the Bible, the central role of Jesus in everyday life, the gifts of prophecy and healing, ideas about personal appearance, women's roles, race relations, attitudes toward politics and the government. Tracking the daily lives of pentecostals, and paying close attention to the voices of individual men and women, Wacker is able to identify the reason for the movement's spectacular success: a demonstrated ability to balance idealistic and pragmatic impulses, to adapt distinct religious convictions in order to meet the expectations of modern life. More than twenty million American adults today consider themselves pentecostal. Given the movement's major place in American religious life, the history of its early years--so artfully told here--is of central importance.

God's Generals: Charles F. Parham

God's Generals: Charles F. Parham
Author: Roberts Liardon
Publisher: Whitaker House
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2000-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1603745831

Roberts Liardon chronicles the lives and legacies of men and women who were empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring worldwide revivals.

God's Generals for Kids/Charles Parham

God's Generals for Kids/Charles Parham
Author: Roberts Liardon and Olly Goldenberg
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1458798232

This is the sixth volume in the very popular God's Generals for Kids series by Roberts Liardon and Olly Goldenberg. These books are written for children in the eight - to - twelve age group. This book is about Charles Fox Parham who has been called ''the father of Pentecost.'' Parham was an American preacher and evangelist who worked with William J. Seymour in the spread of Pentecostalism after the Azusa Street Revival. Parham associated speaking in tongues with the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He invited both African - Americans and Mexican - Americans to join his new movement.

William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism

William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism
Author: Gastón Espinosa
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0822376873

In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870–1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gastón Espinosa provides new insight into the life and ministry of Seymour, the Azusa Street revival, and Seymour's influence on global Pentecostal origins. After defining key terms and concepts, he surveys the changing interpretations of Seymour over the past 100 years, critically engages them in a biography, and then provides an unparalleled collection of primary sources, all in a single volume. He pays particular attention to race relations, Seymour's paradigmatic global influence from 1906 to 1912, and the break between Seymour and Charles Parham, another founder of Pentecostalism. Espinosa's fragmentation thesis argues that the Pentecostal propensity to invoke direct unmediated experiences with the Holy Spirit empowers ordinary people to break the bottle of denominationalism and to rapidly indigenize and spread their message. The 104 primary sources include all of Seymour's extant writings in full and without alteration and some of Parham's theological, social, and racial writings, which help explain why the two parted company. To capture the revival's diversity and global influence, this book includes Black, Latino, Swedish, and Irish testimonies, along with those of missionaries and leaders who spread Seymour's vision of Pentecostalism globally.