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Wind and Fire: Pentecost and the Great Men and Women God Used

by jesuspod.com

Wind and Fire: Pentecost and the Great Men and Women God Used is a sweeping, story-driven journey from the upper room in Jerusalem to the crowded streets of Los Angeles, from canvas revival tents to open fields under African and Latin American skies. In vivid, cinematic prose, this book brings to life the first Pentecost, when wind and flame turned fearful disciples into fearless witnesses—and then follows that same fire as it ignites the lives of ordinary men and women across the centuries. Meet Peter and the early church; William Seymour in a converted stable on Azusa Street; Maria Woodworth-Etter under a trembling tent; Aimee Semple McPherson turning sermons into theater; Florence Crawford and Ida Robinson quietly building movements; Oral Roberts and Kathryn Kuhlman in the glare of television lights; Reinhard Bonnke and Yiye Ávila crying out to continents for salvation. More than a history of Pentecostalism, Wind and Fire is a tapestry of human stories—full of faith and failure,