segunda-feira, 31 de janeiro de 2011

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

This sermon was preached on Sunday, July 17th, 1859, in the Surrey Gardens Music Hall.
The use of this building was necessary in order to accommodate the regular congregations of between 5,000 and 9,000 people. References are made in the sermon to the revivals then being experienced in the United States and Northern Ireland.









"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old." Psalm 44:1.

PERHAPS there are no stories that stick by us so long as those which we hear in our childhood, those tales which are told us by our fathers, and in our nurseries. It is a sad reflection that too many of these stories are idle and vain, so that our minds in early infancy are tinctured with fables, and inoculated with strange and lying narratives.
Among the early Christians and the old believers in the far-off times, nursery tales were far different from what they are now, and the stories with which their children were amused were of a far different class from those which fascinated us in the days of our childhood. No doubt Abraham would talk to young children about the flood, and tell them how the waters overspread the earth, and how Noah alone was saved in the ark. The ancient Israelites, when they dwelt in their own land, would all of them tell their children about the Red Sea, and the plagues which God wrought in Egypt when He brought His people out of the house of bondage.

sexta-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2011

JIMMY SWAGGART (ENGLISH)

A Brief Biography of Jimmy Swaggart


Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15)

Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana. Ministering the Word under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, he preached to stadiums filled with capacity crowds around the world and, pioneered televangelism through his weekly telecast. In the 1980's his television programming transmitted to over 3,000 stations and innumerable cable systems each week. Reverend Swaggart's telecasts were seen by more than 8 million people in the United States and by more than 500 million people worldwide, making it the most widespread mass communication of the Gospel in history!

Reverend Jimmy Swaggart first started his television ministry in 1975 and it continues today, over 33 years later, airing nationally and internationally to a potential viewing audience of over 80 million. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word are seen nationwide and abroad on 78 channels in 104 countries and live over the Internet.












Broadcasting

Television has enabled Jimmy Swaggart Ministries to carry the Good News to people in every part of the world and his messages have been translated into 11 different languages. From the vast slums in Manila to the mission fields of Russia, television is the primary tool this ministry is using to reach countless numbers of lost souls. Reverend Jimmy Swaggart is the President of the SonLife Radio Network which is heard nationwide on over 78 stations and around the world via the internet. Since its launching on June 26 1995,













At the end of 2009 Jimmy Swaggart Ministries launched the SonLife Broadcasting Network.
The Music of Jimmy Swaggart

Young Jimmy Swaggart at Piano
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries has long been known for its anointed music. Reverend Swaggart has recorded over 50 Gospel Albums, with approximately 15 million Recordings sold worldwide. His first album, Some Golden Daybreak, was made primarily to have a record he could give people at his early revivals. Recognizing his gift, Frances Swaggart began encouraging him to contact radio stations. As Jimmy Swaggart's songs began to be aired on radio, the public response was overwhelming. In the spring of 1958 Sam Philips (the producer who discovered Elvis Presley) had sent for the small town, piano-playing, preacher to come to Memphis. He wanted to sign Jimmy Swaggart as the first Gospel artist on the Sun Record Label. However, with a heart to minister the Gospel, the young Swaggart turned him down.


A young Jimmy Swaggart
In 1974 Jimmy Swaggart was voted Favorite Gospel Music Artist for "Singing News". In 1977 "Record World" Magazine honored him as Male Vocalist of the Year. In that same year Jimmy was a Dove Award finalist in three categories: Male Vocalist of the Year, TV Program of the Year, and Instrumentalist of the Year. Again in 1978 Jimmy Swaggart became a Dove Finalist as Instrumentalist of the Year, and in 1980 a Dove Award finalist in four Categories: Children's Album of the Year for "Color Me a Story," Instrumentalist of the Year, Year's best Traditional Album for "Homeward Bound," and Best Gospel Album of the Year for "Worship." The prestigious Grammy Awards nominated Jimmy's "Live from Nashville" for Best Album in 1976, and again in 1980, Jimmy's "Worship" album became a Grammy finalist.









Print Media



Reverend Jimmy Swaggart is the author of several Christian works offered through his ministry as well as the author of the Expositor's Study Bible. The leather bound edition of the Expositor's Study Bible is the fastest selling Study Bible in the world. He has also written 12 Study Guides and 28 Commentaries on the Bible.

The first issue of the monthly magazine, The Evangelist, was four pages and printed in black and white. The present full color glossy edition is distributed online and throughout the world.












Family Worship Center

Jimmy Swaggart Ministering at Family Worship Center
Rev. Swaggart is the Pastor of Family Worship Center, in Baton Rouge Louisiana, a multi-cultural, interdenominational, Full Gospel Church that continues to be the spiritual hub of the ministry. Thousands of lives are touched in the three Campmeeting Services held each year, while the weekly Services continue to grow under a fresh Anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Family Life
Jimmy Swaggart with Grandson Ryder




Reverend Swaggart is married to Frances Swaggart and has one son, Donnie Swaggart. Donnie Swaggart is a dynamic minister inhis own right and not only serves with his father, but travels at home and abroad boldly preaching the unchanging Word of God. Rev. Swaggart's beautiful wife, Frances, is a crucial part of the day to day functioning of the ministry and hosts the popular SonLife Radio program, Frances and Friends.










Reverend Jimmy Swaggart has three grandchildren, Jennifer, Gabriel and Matthew Swaggart. His grandson Gabriel and wife Jill, head Crossfire Youth Ministries an integral and vibrant youth outreach of Family Worship Center. Pastor Gabriel and Jill have two young daughters , Samantha, and Abby. Rev Swaggart's grandson Matthew is also active in the ministry. He is married to JoAnna Swaggart and has a son, Ryder-Presley Swaggart.

Family is important to Reverend Swaggart and he enjoys and cherishes the time he spends with them.






SOURCE:http://www.jsm.org/about_jimmy_swaggart.php