Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson written by Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A religious leader who strongly identified with ordinary folk, she attracted hundreds of thousands of loyal followers throughout the United States and Canada.
Download or read book Sister Aimee The Aimee Semple Mcpherson Story written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It s hard to determine where fact or fiction begins with Aimee Semple McPherson one of the most famous and influential female evangelists in the world. Using her theatrical talent she acted out her sermons making the gospel more accessible to the public. Church became entertainment and Aimee became a celebrity. Just like today s Hollywood celebrities Aimee was married three times widowed once and divorced twice. The press captured her every move publicizing her battles with her mother and daughter over the control of her church. There were even publicized rumors that she had plastic surgery. But what truly made her a public sensation was her mysterious disappearance after a day at the beach. Had Aimee been kidnapped as she claimed or had she just pulled off one of the most successful scams in history?
Download or read book Sister Aimee written by Daniel Mark Epstein and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the evangelist's youth, her ministry, and the scandals that nearly destroyed her
Download or read book Sister Aimee written by Richard A. Rossi, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story" A Screenplay by Richard Rossi The front page headlines, tabloids and gossip-mongers had a field day in the Roaring Twenties, shouting: "SISTER AIMEE Sex SISTER AIMEE Sin SISTER AIMEE Salvation ..." According to Christianity Today writer-filmmaker Richard Rossi "probes deeper" than any other book or film on Sister Aimee. Videohound Golden Retriever Movieguide says what sets his work on Sister Aimee apart is "Rossi takes a compassionate and sympathetic look" at the total story. Both of Rossi's award-winning films are available on DVD on Amazon under the title "Richard Rossi 5th Anniversary of Sister Aimee." REVIEWS: "Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story" is as provocative as it is touching and explores the human side of one of America's towering spiritual icons. You'll find a sensitive script, ample acting, and a story that portrays the Pentecostal woman, who like the rest of us, lived in a skin of real flesh...If you can believe that Christian legends still wear a skin that longs to be touched, THIS MOVIE IS A MUST-SEE!" (Charisma Magazine, Ed Donnally) "In spite of being a devout atheist (an oxymoron I imagine), I've always found the people involved with any religion to be fascinating. Director Rossi wants us to know the evangelist who became a sensation touring around the world and preaching her Christian beliefs...Rossi doesn't gloss over her indiscretions. He paints a lovelorn woman...not a deified woman. Mimi Michaels (as Aimee) is a force of passion and conviction..." (Filmthreat ) In this book, considered the best of the books about Sister Aimee by the International Communion of Charismatic Churches, Academy Award-considered filmmaker Richard Rossi shares what he learned about the Miracle Woman by making two movies about Sister Aimee ("Saving Sister Aimee," the Oscar-considered documentary in which he interviewed primary witnesses like Aimee's daughter, leading man, co-pastor, and secretary and his feature dramatic film "Sister Aimee") Due to popular and worldwide demand to have his screenplay in book form, Rossi's screenplay and introduction are presented here as he tells Aimee's story in his critically acclaimed award-winning script from the Aimee biopic voted the greatest guerrilla film of all time.
Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson written by Silvia Sheafer and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a devastating missionary trip to China on which her husband died, Aimee Semple McPherson refused to give up her dream of winning new souls to Christianity.
Download or read book Sister Aimee written by Daniel Mark Epstein and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1993 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Aimee was a scamp in school, a young widow in China, and a neurotic housewife in Rhode Island, but when the Lord spoke to her, she accepted her ministry and began preaching. This book " fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" (New York Times Book Review). Photographs.
Download or read book Least of All Saints written by Robert Bahr and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1979 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vanishing Evangelist written by Lately Thomas and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Sister Aimee written by Daniel Mark Epstein and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America written by Matthew Avery Sutton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book This is that written by Aimee Semple McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are tears in my eyes and a holy awe in my heart, as I look back over the past fifteen years of ministry and consider the loving kindness and the tender mercies of the Lord Jesus Christ unto this, his unworthy handmaiden. ... As I thought of His great goodness to me and lived the meetings over again, I would write a while and cry a while; and write a while and smile a while. I pray this testimony may be as great a blessing to those who read as to the one who wrote. ... The first edition and the second edition met such a great demand on the American continent, in Europe and in the islands of the sea that they were soon exhausted. This third edition has been enlarged in personal testimony, having added the story of two and ahalf yehars of the best revival campaigns which we have ever been privileged to conduct. In order not to enlrage the size or the price of the book, some other writings have been removed and may be found under separate cover by those who desire. As this book, containing personal testimony and writings, goes forth to the world, we are continuing the Lord's work in the great Angelus Temple at Echo Park, Los Angeles, California."--From the preface.
Download or read book Sister Aimee written by Nancy Barr Mavity and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson written by Douglas Haig Rudd and published by Belleville, Ont. : Guardian Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read of Aimee Semple McPherson's amazing evangelistic meetings and her founding of the 5,300-seat Angelus Temple, a church still vibrant today. Dr. Robert Schuller of the Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California. Late one night, Dr. Schuller landed at LA International, picked up his car and began the drive home. On the radio he heard a woman preaching. So taken was he with the message that he exclaimed, I want to get that woman to preach at my church. When the program went off the air, he realized that it had been the voice of Aimee Semple McPherson, recorded years before. (Raymond Cox p.242) Dr. Jack Hayford, president of the Foursquare Church International. There are very few people who have done more to magnify the person of Jesus and win souls to Him, yet who have suffered more unfairness and criticism for doing so. (Jack Hayford, The Legacy of Sister Aimee: Tarnished but Triumphant, Charisma and Christian Life (March 1993), p.16)
Download or read book In the Service of the King written by Aimee Semple McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 - September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American, Los Angeles-based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Gospel Church. McPherson has been noted as a pioneer in the use of modern media. Her radio broadcasts reached millions throughout North America, and she incorporated other performing art forms into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple. In her time she was the most publicized Christian evangelist in America, surpassing Billy Sunday and her other predecessors. She conducted public faith-healing demonstrations before large crowds; testimonies conveyed tens of thousands of people healed. McPherson's articulation of the United States as a nation founded and sustained by divine inspiration continues to be echoed by many pastors in churches today. Sister Aimee's road to fame was filled with harrowing challenges as well as triumphs. Shortly after their marriage, AIMEE SEMPLE and her first husband Robert left for China as missionaries. In a brief period all of their intended work would end when Aimee became pregnant with her daughter Roberta, and her husband Robert was hospitalized with Malaria in China. Subsequently he died and she and Roberta were stranded without funds in China. She finally was able to return to the United States and begin her ministry. She left for the West Coast and settled in Los Angeles, where, without any backing, she built a 5,090 seat auditorium, opening the doors for the first services debt free on January 1, 1923. After her death in 1943 the denomination continued to prosper for many years under her son Rolf D. McPherson's leadership. The Church's offices are located at the site of the Temple which is very active in outreach to the community. Today, more than 4,000 ministers serve under the INTERNATIONAL FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH denomination around the world. This volume traces her family history.
Download or read book Aimee Semple McPherson and the Foursquare Gospel 1921 1944 written by William Dale Blomgren and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
