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The message of PENTECOST is still the same…

Pentecost Sunday Full Gospel as Preached by the Early Pentecostals

I keep on repeating this through the years, but the need for the constant repetition comes from the simple fact that among new doctrinal teachings and Hillsong style of worship the True Message of Pentecost remains long forgotten Salvation – That a man must be saved while the hour of grace is still upon us has been that teaching of every protestant evangelical since the Reformation. Why people attend church all their lives without getting saved is beyond me. But I do know that the commitment of the CHURCH to REVIVAL brings people to SALVATION. Sanctification - The Wesleyan teaching ...

Pentecostal articles for Pentecost Sunday

Offering a few recent Pentecostal articles in light of the upcoming Pentecost Sunday celebration: The Forgotten Azusa Street Mission: The Place where the First Pentecostals Met Diamonds in the Rough-N-Ready Pentecostal Series (Complete) 95th anniversary of the Pentecostal movement in Bulgaria Toward a Pentecostal Solution to the Refugee Crises in the European Union Historical and Doctrinal Formation of Holiness Teachings and Praxis among Bulgarian Pentecostals Pacifism as a Social Stand for Holiness among Early Bulgarian Pentecostals The Practice of Corporate Holiness within the Communion Service of Bulgarian Pentecostals Sanctification and Personal Holiness among Early Bulgarian Pentecostals First Pentecostal Missionaries to ...

EU Elections 2019 in Bulgaria

Over 1.9 Million People Voted with Ballot, Nearly 160 Thousand - with a Machine Newly Elected MEPs to Joint Action on the Mobility I Package Names of All 17 New Bulgaria's MEPs Became Clear Late Last Night The names of all 17 new MEPs became clear. The CEC officially announced theresults of Sunday's European elections. Thus, 5 Bulgarian parties and coalitions will have their representatives in the new European Parliament. These are GERB, BSP, DPS (MRF), VMRO (IMRO) and Democratic Bulgaria. Most MEPs - 6, will have the party of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in a SDS (UDF) coalition. Maria Gabriel, Andrey ...

Global Network of Bulgarian Evangelical Churches outside of Bulgaria (2019 Report)

Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in the European  Union (2019) Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Germany Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Spain Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in England Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in France Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Belgium Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Italy Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Cyprus Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Crete Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in America (2019 Report) Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Chicago (2019 Report) Bulgarian Evangelical Churches in Texas (2019 Report) Bulgarian Evangelical Churches - West Coast (2019 Report) Atlanta (active since 1996) Los Angeles (occasional/outreach of the Foursquare Church - Mission Hills, CA) Las Vegas (outreach of the Foursquare Church - http://lasvegaschurch.tv) San Francisco (occasional/inactive since 2012, Berkeley University/Concord, CA) Bulgarian ...

Russian Molokan Immigrants Land at Angel Island

Editor’s note: The earliest group of Russian immigrants to arrive in San Francisco were Molokan peasants from the Kars region of the Transcaucaus in 1905. Religious dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church, they were called “Molokane” or “milk drinker” by the Russian clergy because of their refusal to abstain from drinking milk or eating meat during the Orthodox fast days. The group called themselves “Spiritual Christian Holy Jumpers” and also refused to bear arms. They were persecuted and exiled into the wilds of the Transcaucasian region in 1820 and threatened with conscription into the military after 1887. Fearful of their ...