Author Archive
August 8, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Book Reviews
Vinson Synan, Ph.D., Interim Dean, Oral Roberts University, School of Theology and Mission. This is surely the best book I have read on the passion of Jesus Christ.I have known Frank Tunstall for many years. As a student at Emmanuel College he showed unmistakable marks of future leadership. He is also a member of the […]
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August 1, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Church Growth, Pastoral Development, Pentecostal Revival, Prophecy
By: Frank G. Tunstall I have returned home rejoicing at the work of the Holy Spirit in the General Conference in Orlando. My first General Conference was 1961 in Richmond. Emmanuel’s President W. G. Drum sent me on a train as a freshman college student to make a speech representing Emmanuel College. I’ve attended all of them […]
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July 14, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Missions
By: Frank G. Tunstall Robert Hough was the first graduate of Southwestern Christian University to become a missionary. Known as “Bob” to his many friends, he moved his wife, Velda, and his daughters, Robin and Faith, into the boiling cauldron of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1957. Cuba at the time was […]
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June 8, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Church Growth, Events, Pentecostal Revival, Prayer and Intercession, Prophecy, Scriptures
By: Frank G. Tunstall God massively intervened in history in first century Israel in four sovereign acts of divine power that changed the course of history. The first was the incarnation of God’s Son conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary without a sexual union. God “became flesh and blood […]
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May 31, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Pastoral Development, Pentecostal Revival
What do triplets and DNA have to say about the gift of the Holy Spirit? By: Frank G. Tunstall I invite you to release your imagination and picture what Jesus was saying as He began to teach His disciples on the night of the Last Supper about the gift of the Holy Spirit. It was […]
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May 23, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Family Enrichment, Moral issues, Pastoral Development, Scriptures
By: Frank G. Tunstall, D. Min. The institution of marriage offers an excellent illustration of sanctifying grace. When a young couple marries, the union can be successful only if they spiritually, mentally and emotionally forsake all others – all former suitors – so that they are set apart in their hearts from all past courtship […]
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April 10, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Easter, Family Enrichment, Historical Study, Pastoral Development, Scriptures, Uncategorized
By: Frank G. Tunstall A woman, Mary, was the first person to see the resurrected Lord. The Emmaus travelers walked seven miles with Jesus on the day of His resurrection and listen to the Lord’s profound teaching. That same evening Jesus appeared to the ten disciples in their locked room. [Thomas was absent and […]
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April 4, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Easter, Historical Study, Pastoral Development, Prayer and Intercession, Prophecy, Scriptures
By: Frank G. Tunstall I thought about it hundreds of times over the years, I guess, why didn’t the gospel writers tell us more about the raw suffering Jesus experienced leading up to the cross? Then one day I decided to study the key passages in the Greek, and discovered what I was looking for. […]
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March 30, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Easter, Historical Study, Pastoral Development, Prophecy, Uncategorized
By: Frank G. Tunstall “The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!’” (John […]
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February 15, 2017 | by Frank Tunstall | Biblical Study, Middle East, Persecution of Christians, Prophecy
ISRAEL IN PROPHECY I have known Glen Howard for over forty years. He has served the church at Southwestern Christian University and as a missionary with World Missions Ministries in the Philippines and in Budapest, Hungary. He was living in Eastern Europe in the 1980’s when the Soviet Union started to unravel and when Islam began its […]
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