Old Magazine Articles

Recently I had the strangest experience while driving my parents to their 56th anniversary dinner. In full-time ministry since 1962, my mom’s question from the backseat created a flashback to when the roles were reversed and I asked, “What’s happening in our world? What’s going on?” For the most part, those who called themselves Christians

We’re living in a day of what I call the “get by” mentality. What does that mean? It means we are all just trying to get by! We’re not really living because we’ve made up our minds that surviving is enough. We have become much like Gideon’s army in Judges 8:4, where they were fainting

Today’s young Pentecostal and charismatic leaders have a vision for a world that knows Jesus, and they are spreading His fame worldwide. Via television, the Internet, speaking tours, evangelistic events, concerts, trips abroad and touching people in their own backyards, this group of under-40 leaders are putting hands and feet to the gospel. Evangelists such

Many Christians today have given up on America. They feed on a steady diet of doomsday books and negative headlines—both from CNN and Fox News—so it’s no wonder they’ve lost hope. As far as they are concerned, this country and the world can go to hell as long as the rapture happens soon. I’m not

Anyone aware of the modern charismatic movement is familiar with Jack Hayford. Even the venerated evangelical magazine Christianity Today called him the “Pentecostal Gold Standard.” He is the founding pastor of The Church on the Way; chancellor of The King’s University, author of more than 50 books, composer of hundreds of songs, including “Majesty,” and

As Charisma reflects on its 40th anniversary, we decided to focus this special issue not on the magazine or our organization but on those who we believe the Holy Spirit used to radically change our world. For the past four years we have used that tag line: “Inspiring people to radically change their world through

Editor’s note: How the Holy Spirit guided Charisma from a magazine to a media company is an amazing story of God’s grace and blessing. This article appeared in the anniversary issue August 2015. For the entire month of August we are having an anniversary celebration on charismamag.com with giveaways each week day, pages from our past, and more.

Note: This story originally appeared in the August 2008 issue of Charisma and on charismamag.com. It is the second in a series of six. It is no secret that religious gays and lesbians are on a relentless quest to establish theological credibility for same-sex relationships in the black church today. It’s also no secret that

It’s Black History Month 2015. This is a time of remembering the many great contributions of African-Americans in the history of our great nation. We have experienced many advances made possible from contributions from members of the African-American community. Beyond the familiar names that we hear every year, advances have been made by countless African-American

Note: This story originally appeared in the August 2008 issue of Charisma and on charismamag.com. It is the first in a series of six. The black church has a rich history. It stoked a covert revival on plantations across the South, inspiring slaves with visions of freedom and a passion to pray for better days.