No reader will be surprised to hear that America’s cultural battle is intensifying. Many want to see biblical values erased…

Note: This A new year invites us to reflect on where we are and where we’re going. I feel the invitation…

Note: This Perspective column ran in the January 2015 issue of Charisma magazine.A new year invites us to reflect on…

Forty years ago today the first 32-page issue of Charisma magazine came off the press. If you read the August…

In our online celebration of Charisma’s 40th anniversary, we are each day publishing two of the leaders we featured in…

Over the years Charisma has celebrated it’s anniversary in various ways.  On our tenth anniversary we had a banquet featuring…

Welcome to the special 40th anniversary celebration of Charisma. Beginning on the first of August and running to the 31st,…

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. Tomorrow the magazine kicks off a 31-day anniversary celebration on charismamag.com

My favorite Scripture is Ephesians 3:20: “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all we can ask or imagine, according to the power that works in us.”

As I look back on the 40-year odyssey of Charisma, this has been true again and again. God has done exceedingly abundantly more than I could have dreamed as a young newspaper journalist who in 1975 wanted to use my talents to do something significant for God. My talent was to write and to network. I’m not a singer or a preacher. I didn’t feel called to be a foreign missionary. What could I devote my life to where my wife could also serve with me?

In hindsight, I can see God’s hand and I want to give Him glory for anything that has been accomplished! But at the time I merely had an opportunity to start a small magazine for my church, Calvary Assembly in Orlando, Florida. On a practical level, it provided a way for me to supplement my meager salary as a beginning reporter. I’m not sure I even had a great vision for a magazine. It was merely the door God opened and I walked through.

At the time there were several well-known, successful Christian magazines, so competition was tough. I had no money personally to start a publication, let alone a business. But God must have had a plan, and it was a good plan. Slowly I was able to learn the publishing business. I learned to network with leaders. And I wrote or published articles on Christian growth, on charismatic teachings and on new ministries that were popping up—like TBN, Kenneth Copeland or Marilyn Hickey.

The August 2015 issue of Charisma just came off the press and we’re excited about it. A new issue has…

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By now everyone has heard the bad news: The U.S. Supreme court in a 5-4 decision has legalized same-sex marriage…