A passionate believer of racial integration, William Seymour led the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906, credited for launching the American Pentecostal Movement and several denominations. In this biography, Borlase captures his intriguing story.

Serving as the “catalyst” of the Pentecostal movement in the twentieth century, William J. Seymour turned a tiny former horse stable in Los Angeles into an international center of revival. Baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues, was a major part of the meetings held there, and Seymour led the first organized movement that promoted this experience. At Azusa, blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Europeans all met and worshiped together, crossing formerly impossible cultural lines. “There is no Jew or Gentile, bond or free, in the Azusa Mission,” Seymour said. “No instrument that God can use is rejected on account of color or dress or lack of education. This is why God has built up the work.” Compiled by Roberts Liardon, author of the bestselling God’s Generals series, The Great Azusa Street Revival features historic accounts, eyewitness testimonies to the power of God, and photos capturing the multicultural, worldwide appeal of Seymour and his ministry. Included are many of Seymour’s stirring sermons and writings, which are still relevant to believers today. Although the revival was short-lived, it produced and exploded the Pentecostal movement around the world. Today, many denominations attribute their founding to the participants of the Azusa Street church, and countless others are linked to this revival.

In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870–1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gastón Espinosa provides new insight into the life and ministry of Seymour, the Azusa Street revival, and Seymour's influence on global Pentecostal origins. After defining key terms and concepts, he surveys the changing interpretations of Seymour over the past 100 years, critically engages them in a biography, and then provides an unparalleled collection of primary sources, all in a single volume. He pays particular attention to race relations, Seymour's paradigmatic global influence from 1906 to 1912, and the break between Seymour and Charles Parham, another founder of Pentecostalism. Espinosa's fragmentation thesis argues that the Pentecostal propensity to invoke direct unmediated experiences with the Holy Spirit empowers ordinary people to break the bottle of denominationalism and to rapidly indigenize and spread their message. The 104 primary sources include all of Seymour's extant writings in full and without alteration and some of Parham's theological, social, and racial writings, which help explain why the two parted company. To capture the revival's diversity and global influence, this book includes Black, Latino, Swedish, and Irish testimonies, along with those of missionaries and leaders who spread Seymour's vision of Pentecostalism globally.

Are you searching for a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit? Are you looking to experience a baptism in fire like the one the apostles did in the Book of Acts? William J. Seymour, father of the 1906 Azusa Street Revival, knows a little bit about that. This book, William J Seymour & His Azusa Street Sermons, contains the 18 sermons preached by Bro. Seymour at 312 Azusa Street as recorded in the Apolistic Faith from 1906 onwards. About the Azusa Street Revival: The Azusa Street revival began in 1906 when a group of Christians led by William Seymour began praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Within days of the revival beginning, the group would outgrow their premises, moving to the Azusa Street Mission centre at 312 Azusa Street. From this humble premises God would light a spark that would fuel one of the biggest and most powerful revivals of the last two millennia. Through William J Seymour, thousands would be baptized in the Holy Spirit with many receiving the gift of tongues as well as divine healing and freedom from demonic possession. "No instruments of music are used. None are needed. No choir- the angels have been heard by some in the spirit. No collections are taken. No bills have been posted to advertise the meetings. No church organization is back of it. All who are in touch with God realize as soon as they enter the meetings that the Holy Ghost is the leader." - Observer at the Azusa Street Church "Proud, well-dressed preachers came to 'investigate'. Soon their high looks were replaced with wonder, then conviction comes, and very often you will find them in a short time wallowing on the dirty floor, asking God to forgive them and make them as little children" - Apostolic Faith, Issue #1 The following sermons (all of which are contained within this book) are recorded as having been preached by William Seymour: - The Precious Atonement - The Way into the Holiest - River of Living Water - In Money Matters - Counterfeits - Behold the Bridegroom Cometh - Receive Ye the Holy Ghost - Gifts of the Spirit - Rebecca; Type of the Bride of Christ - The Baptism with the Holy Ghost - The Holy Spirit Bishop of the Church - The Marriage Tie - Letter to one seeking the Holy Ghost - Christ's Messages to the Church - "To the Married" - Sanctified by the Cross - The Baptism of the Holy Ghost - The Holy Ghost and the Bride

He is the meekest man I ever met. He walks and talks with God. His power is in his weakness. He seems to maintain a helpless dependence on God and is simple-hearted as a little child, and at the same time is so filled with God that you feel the love and power every time you get near him. Here are just some of the descriptions from Azusa Street...

From the pen of John Bartleman, an early leader of the Pentecostal movement, we have an eyewitness account of the "latter rain" when Pentecost moved from California to Maine and back.