Articles Posted in June 2012

Chapter 15 - Be Filled With The Spirit

Series: Our Fathers Saw His Mighty Works

            As has been recounted in the previous chapters, the Lutheran Evangelistic Movement was one of God’s mighty tools for revival during the post World War II years and a witness to many of His wonderful works.  Yet the LEM was not, of course, without its problems and disappointments.  Strange to say, many of those things seemed to surface especially during the years of revival in the early 1950’s.  In fact, the LEM suffered a sharp decline near the middle of that decade about the same time that revival on the national scene was beginning ...

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Chapter 16 - The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

Series: Our Fathers Saw His Mighty Works

            That God did indeed send revival to the U.S. during the ten or so years post World War II is quite clear.  Dr. J. Edwin Orr, being one of the chief revival historians of all time and having lived during that era himself, referred to it in retrospect as “The Awakening of 1948 Onward,” citing not only the national evidences of revival mentioned earlier in this book but also subsequent movements around the world in such places as Scotland, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, East and West Africa, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Southern India, ...

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