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False Holiness Standards by Linda S. Hopper

Very interesting read.

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Just finished "Life after Legalism" by Michael Lee and have started "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan

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Two books on Azusa Street, one a history by Roberts Liardon and the other also, but it's Frank J. Bartleman's journal.

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I really wanna read "Crazy Love"

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A couple of days ago I re-read "My Early Ministry" by Rev. J.E. Douglas. It does not have a copyright date but was published by College Press in Tupelo, Mississippi many years ago. It's a short book --just 22 pages-- and tells of how he got saved as a young man, baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1914,and called to preach in 1915. The book is written based on some of his memories of his ministry over a span of 40 years. He had a heart attack in 1954 and the book was written based on conversations with his sons while he was convalescing. He is one of our old timers, our pioneers, who preached in schools, and tents using gasoline torches for lighting and some times sleeping on the rough boards used for seats in those tents and often traveling by horse and wagon.

On pages 15 and 16 he tells about going to a camp meeting in Jackson, Tennessee held under a large tent. He goes on to say:

"It was during this camp meeting I learned of a new step I was to take. A new truth --water baptism in Jesus' Name, Acts 2:37-40 --was revealed to me. I had previously been baptized in the Trinity doctrine. It was revealed to me that the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is actually Jesus Christ. I then understood that I had not baptized according to the commission in Matthew 28:19. The following Sunday my wife and I were baptized with fifty-five others in the highest name in Heaven and earth --our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Since that day I have been satisfied in my soul concerning water baptism."

The first time I read this book I was just a kid preacher. Somehow I have managed to keep it over the years without it being sold, lent out or lost. In the back of the book is a copy of his obituary which I cut out of the November 1959 Pentecostal Herald and it has been kept in that book all these years. It says he was born January 24, 1888 and that he died September 26, 1959 during a church service. He had sung the song "The Old Gospel Ship" and was resting for a few moments before preaching. He was scheduled to preach that night but died in the church building. What a way to go!

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I have a book written by Edith L. Blumhofer called "Pentecost in my Soul" It talks about the early days of the AOG and the Pentecostal Experience, its one of my most treasured readings.

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I'm reading "A Game of Thrones," by George R.R. Martin

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"The Cause Within You" by Matthew Barnett

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How was "Life After Legalism?"
I guess I need some of that...

I just started American Gods,
fiction, so I was sceptical, but interestingly
it is about the old Gods, Odin, etc.,
"brought over" to the US by immigrants, and abandoned
in favor of new gods, which turn out to be
gods of plastic, electronics, tv, etc.

I'm also reading Larry Wood,
http://www.biblenews1.com/marriage/marriagi.htm
who is a complete freak, very unreligious,
very Christ centered, strange terminology,
but shows Biblical "problem solving devices," etc...
He has some things to say about Pentecostalism
that will test one, but is never unkind.

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