The Bulgarian Pentecostal movement is rooted in the Azusa Street Holiness Revival, which began in April of 1906. As a result of the revival, which followed throughout the United States less than a decade later, denominations such as the Church of God (1896) and Assemblies of God (1914) were established and sent missionaries to […]

I’m not one for the forwarded “storied” emails that continually travel the web. Like you, my inbox is filled with them, and the funny part is most of the stories just simply aren’t true. For instance the story of Billy Graham leading a parade on Bourbo…

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Pastors who served as agents of the secret police during the Communist Regime in Bulgaria are being revealed this week through special legal provision of the Bulgarian Constitution, which […]

Rev. James E. Shelton, a retired exhorter from Knoxville, Tenn., passed away on March 24, 2023.
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David Roebuck interprets the history of the COG in a progressive sanctification lens. “As long as something is not contrary to the New Testament, Christians should give one another “equal rights and privileges to read, believe and practice for themselves in all matters of religion . . ..” “In the 1940s deep division arose between […]

It has always seemed to me that lay people can do what most ministers do at headquarters. I believe that preachers, called by God Almighty, should be out somewhere proclaiming the good news of Jesus to a lost and dying world. I realize there is a prestige in being at headquarters, but are we really […]