Charisma Magazine 40 Year Anniversary

Note: This article originally ran in the May 1996 issue of Charisma magazine. The day before the infamous “Blizzard of 1996,” when the New York City air was as bone cold and biting as it gets in January, the crowd outside the Christian Life Centre was already swelling. Men, women and small children awaiting the […]

Some call them “bartenders.” They serve “new wine” to desperately dry Christians who fly in from all over the world just to get refilled. John and Carol Arnott simply encourage them to “take another drink.” Beginning in 1994 when God showed up in power at the Toronto Airport Vineyard Christian Fellowship, the Arnotts have been

Generals of earthly armies rarely think about raising up other generals. For Cindy Jacobs, however, the call is clear: Mobilize a supernatural army and raise up and train generals to lead it. In 1985, she and her husband, Mike, founded an organization now known as Generals International, which works to transform nations through intercessory prayer

Note: This article appeared in the June 1986 issue of Charisma magazine. According to blackpast.org, the Church of God in Christ’s membership has risen to over five million members in the U.S. and it has become one of the world’s largest Pentecostal churches. Many people think the As­semblies of God is the largest Pentecostal de­nomination

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

Note: This article was originally published in the April 1996 issue of Charisma magazine. When 88-year-old Elsie Mason was born, Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States and the American West was still being tamed. Arizona and New Mexico weren’t even states yet. The automobile assembly line had just been invented, but paved roads

“The problem was, in the refocusing on my attention to theology, I had forgotten to keep my focus on God. The mystery, excitement, romance and fun of living in the presence of God and His anointing was replaced with a focus on Scripture.” – John Wimber In this video from 1985, signs and wonders leader

Note: This article ran in the November 1990 issue of Charisma. Where are the prophets? In every quarter of the church today we hear that question ringing. Not only in charismatic and Pentecostal churches, but even in the old mainline denominations, Christians are experiencing prophetic ministry, acknowledging pro­phetic ministers and wondering where the Holy Spirit

Note: This article appeared in the April 1984 issue of Charisma. It’s just as pertinent today as it was when it ran more than 31 years ago. There is definitely a “mystery of iniquity” attached to the four horses in chapter six of Revela­tion. We may not fully under­stand everything that will hap­pen when they

Note: This article originally appeared in the May 1985 issue of Charisma. We read in Ephesians 6:12 that, ” … we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,” or “wicked spirits in the heavenlies,” as one

John Wimber’s story represents the quintessential testimony of a changed life. A beer-drinking professional musician before his 1963 conversion, Wimber went on to lead hundreds to Christ and teach numerous Bible studies. While Wimber formed the house church that became the Anaheim (California) Vineyard, the Association of Vineyard Churches remained a modest handful of congregations

Dr. Bill Hamon has been in prophetic ministry for more than 60 years, touching the lives of countless people across the globe. But what has had the widest-reaching and longest-lasting impact is the famous organization he has built in the last half-century: Christian International. Originally founded in 1967 as the Christian International School of Theology—a