Aimee Semple Mcpherson

Author : Daniel Mark Epstein
Publisher : HMH
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547544984

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Sister Aimee by Daniel Mark Epstein Pdf

The true story of America’s first superstar evangelist that “fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism” (The New York Times Book Review). Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to “miracle woman”—the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children—and without a man to fix flat tires. Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets). But this is not just a story of McPherson’s cult of fame. It’s also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her. A “powerhouse biography of perhaps the most charismatic and controversial woman in modern religious history,” Sister Aimee is, above all, the life story of a unique woman, of the power of passion that rejects compromise, and a faith that would not be shaken (Kirkus Reviews). “[Told] with insight, empathy and lyrical power . . . Daniel Mark Epstein sees the facts, and feels the mystery, and he has written a remarkable book.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Chas H. Barfoot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317544203

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926 by Chas H. Barfoot Pdf

Pentecostalism was born at the turn of the twentieth century in a "tumble-down shack" in a rundown semi-industrial area of Los Angeles composed of a tombstone shop, saloons, livery stables and railroad freight yards. One hundred years later Pentecostalism has not only proven to be the most dynamic representative of Christian faith in the past century, but a transnational religious phenomenon as well. In a global context Pentecostalism has attained a membership of 500 million growing at the rate of 20 million new members a year. Aimee Semple McPherson, born on a Canadian farm, was Pentecostalism's first celebrity, its "female Billy Sunday". Arriving in Southern California with her mother, two children and $100.00 in 1920, "Sister Aimee", as she was fondly known, quickly achieved the height of her fame. In 1926, by age 35, "Sister Aimee" would pastor "America's largest 'class A' church", perhaps becoming the country's first mega church pastor. In Los Angeles she quickly became a folk hero and civic institution. Hollywood discovered her when she brilliantly united the sacred with the profane. Anthony Quinn would play in the Temple band and Aimee would baptize Marilyn Monroe, council Jean Harlow and become friends with Charlie Chaplain, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Based on the biographer's first time access to internal church documents and cooperation of Aimee's family and friends, this major biography offers a sympathetic appraisal of her rise to fame, revivals in major cities and influence on American religion and culture in the Jazz Age. The biographer takes the reader behind the scenes of Aimee's fame to the early days of her harsh apprenticeship in revival tents, failed marriages and poverty. Barfoot recreates the career of this "called" and driven woman through oral history, church documents and by a creative use of new source material. Written with warmth and often as dramatic as Aimee, herself, the author successfully captures not only what made Aimee famous but also what transformed Pentecostalism from its meager Azusa Street mission beginnings into a transnational, global religion.

Author : Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802801552

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Aimee Semple McPherson by Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer Pdf

A religious leader who strongly identified with ordinary folk, she attracted hundreds of thousands of loyal followers throughout the United States and Canada.

Author : Matthew Avery Sutton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674027039

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton Pdf

Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.

Author : Aimee Semple McPherson
Publisher : Los Angeles : Echo Park Evangelistic Association
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : California
ISBN : WISC:89065273369

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The Story of My Life by Aimee Semple McPherson Pdf

Author : Aimee Semple McPherson
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781603749817

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Divine Healing Sermons by Aimee Semple McPherson Pdf

Messages delivered during healing meetings In 1915, Aimee Semple McPherson began traveling around the United States, holding tent revivals, with some crowds reaching well over thirty thousand people. The tent revivals of this vivacious and spirited speaker would last weeks in any given city across the country. She used a brass band, choirs, and props of all sorts in her sermons. During McPherson’s ministry, tens of thousands of people were healed when she prayed for them, but she herself took no credit for the healings, instead giving full credit to God. She insisted that divine healing was not found in the emergency room, the world of entertainment, or the scientist’s laboratory; it was a church sacrament, accessible by faith and devotion alone. Divine Healing Sermons is a collection of the messages McPherson preached during her amazing ministry. They remain as powerful and accessible today as they were a century ago.

Author : Aimee Semple McPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : UCAL:$B28834

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This is that by Aimee Semple McPherson Pdf

Author : Lately Thomas
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789120509

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The Vanishing Evangelist by Lately Thomas Pdf

During the afternoon of May 18, 1926, and auburn-haired woman whose name was virtually an American household word went for a swim in the Pacific. She was not seen to come out of the water. Thousands of Californians who had thronged to hear the dynamic Aimee Semple McPherson preach at her floodlit Angelos Temple were stunned at the news of her disappearance. Two people died in the attempt to find her body. Services were held for her at the Temple and a memorial fund was collected. Meanwhile, however, letters had begun to come in, demanding $500,000 ransom for the return of Sister Aimee. And five weeks after the vanished, Aimee turned up in a Mexican border town with a circumstantial story of having been kidnapped and then imprisoned in a desert shack, and of having escaped on foot across miles of sandy wastes. The missing shepherd was welcomed back to life with great rejoicing by the Temple flock. But certain skeptics—among them the Los Angeles district attorney—had doubts about her story. Why was no shack to be found that would fit her description? Why was she neither sunburned nor thirsty when she returned? And who was the mysterious “Miss X,” so remarkably like the evangelist, who had occupied, with a “Mr. McIntyre,” a rented honeymoon cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea while Aimee was gone? These questions led to a grand-jury investigation with sensational surprised of its own, and eventually brought the evangelist and certain others into court, where the disclosures made were as startling—and as hilarious—as anything that had preceded... “The whole story is one of the funniest episodes from the harebrained 1920s....It has been told in great and amusing detail....”—GILBERT HIGHET “It’s more fun than a barrel of—well, Holy Rollers.”—LESLIE HANSCOM, New York Telegram and Sun “It is a story far too fantastic for fiction; nobody would believe it if it appeared between the covers of a novel...”—FREDERIC BABCOCK, Chicago Tribune

Author : Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515372391

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The Holy Spirit by Aimee Semple Mcpherson Pdf

The life of Jesus was wrapped up in the Holy Spirit. He was conceived of the Spirit, baptized with the Spirit, led of the Spirit, and performed His works by the power of the Spirit. When He departed this world, He left His disciples to carry on, commanding them do the works that He had done. Would He declare that His own works were done by the power of the Holy Spirit who dwelt within Him, and then tell His disciples do the same work without that same power? No! As Elijah's mantle fell from his shoulders and was donned by the waiting disciple Elisha, so Christ, sent down from the throne of God the Holy Spirit, the life-giving Third Person of the Trinity that He might abide within His disciples. They, too, would preach the gospel with signs and wonders and be able to say as did their Master: "He that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." In a day when the foundations of society are deteriorating, many people are looking to the church for an answer. The true gospel of Christ proclaimed in the fullness of the Holy Spirit provides an answer and a hope. May a divine flame be kindled in your heart as you read The Holy Spirit.

Author : Judith Robinson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552778296

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Working Miracles by Judith Robinson Pdf

Devout and charismatic, Aimee Semple McPherson led millions in prayer. A pioneer in female travelling evangelism, McPherson was believed to possess a healing touch. Great masses of the sick and the burdened gathered from far and wide to hear her sermons and perhaps to be cured by the miracle worker. This is the story of one woman's extraordinary life full of missionary adventures in the Far East, fervent radio preaching, empire building, and spectacular pulpit performances.

Author : Robert Bahr
Publisher : Dissertation.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Evangelists
ISBN : 0595152899

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Least of All Saints by Robert Bahr Pdf

A fascinating woman…a charismatic religious leader! Aimee Semple McPherson captured the imagination of an entire nation, entertained celebrities and royalty, became one of the most powerful and influential women in American history. Founder of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel, known around the world for her Sunday night radio broadcasts and mammoth crusades, she suddenly disappeared with her married radio station manager.

Author : Matthew Avery Sutton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674032538

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton Pdf

Matthew Sutton's definitive study of Aimee Semple McPherson reveals the woman, most often remembered as the hypocritical vamp in Sinclair Lewis's 'Elmer Gantry', as a trail-blazing pioneer.

Author : Aimee Semple McPherson
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629110400

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The Second Coming of Christ by Aimee Semple McPherson Pdf

The Lord will come again; He promised us that. But is His church ready? We know neither the day nor the hour of Christ’s return, but we are instructed to be ready at all times. Aimee Semple McPherson felt the urgency of this call, and she urges the church to be ready for His glorious return. Join “Sister Aimee,” whom Time magazine named one of the most influential people of the twentieth century, in discovering what the second coming of Christ means to the church today. In this book, she answers questions that face many believers: Is Christ coming? How is He coming? When is He coming? For whom is He coming? The harvest is ready, and the Lord will come back to reap a bountiful, mature body of believers. Be prepared to rise up and meet Christ when He appears in the clouds of glory!

Author : Roberts Liardon
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603745871

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God's Generals: Aimee Semple McPherson by Roberts Liardon Pdf

Roberts Liardon chronicles the lives and legacies of men and women who were empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring worldwide revivals.

Author : Gary Krist
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780451496393

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The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist Pdf

From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer, designed the massive aqueduct that would make urban life here possible. D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture, gave L.A. its signature industry. And Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist who founded a religion, cemented the city’s identity as a center for spiritual exploration. All were masters of their craft, but also illusionists, of a kind. The images they conjured up—of a blossoming city in the desert, of a factory of celluloid dreamworks, of a community of seekers finding personal salvation under the California sun—were like mirages liable to evaporate on closer inspection. All three would pay a steep price to realize these dreams, in a crescendo of hubris, scandal, and catastrophic failure of design that threatened to topple each of their personal empires. Yet when the dust settled, the mirage that was LA remained. Spanning the years from 1900 to 1930, The Mirage Factory is the enthralling tale of an improbable city and the people who willed it into existence by pushing the limits of human engineering and imagination.