Judi Ault was filled with the spirit during a revival in the basement of a Lancaster church. She was 11 years old. “I started on my knees and from there I was lying down,” said the Bethlehem woman, ...

LOS ANGELES – At Three Crosses Church, Pastor Ken Walters urges his parishioners to join him in song and scripture. The charismatic 58-year-old extends his arms skyward and belts out melodies praising ...

STEELE, Mo. —At the beginning of an evening worship service at the First Assembly of God church, the Rev. Ryan Harris pitted teens against adults in a trivia game called Battle of the Generations.

WASHINGTON _ Speaking in tongues, long a hallmark of Pentecostalism, is not practiced by a significant number of charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, a new 10-country survey shows. The survey, ...

Last week, a Kentucky pastor died after refusing to be treated for a religion-induced snake bite. That practice is only found in Appalachian churches. But speaking in tongues is a Pentecostal ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - While the small Assemblies of God congregation goes through all the traditional trappings of a Pentecostal service, there is one notable absence: speaking in tongues, a defining ...

There is much confusion in the religious world pertaining to the nature of the “gift of tongues” mentioned in the New Testament. Some assert that speaking in tongues involved uttering unintelligible ...

WHILE teaching on prayer last year, we dealt at length with praying in the spirit or simply praying in tongues. Last week we touched the surface of the subject yet again as an introduction. Isn’t it ...

This year, Bethlehem Baptist Church has embraced the theme Tongues of Fire, drawn from Acts 2:3. In this powerful scripture, we see how the Holy Spirit moved among God’s people, filling the apostles ...

Throughout the Easter season, we have heard readings that highlight the role of the Holy Spirit in comforting, sustaining, inspiring and empowering believers in Christ. On Pentecost, as the Holy ...