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James A. Stewart

James A. Stewart (July 13, 1910 – July 11, 1975) was a Scottish-American preacher, missionary, and evangelist whose calling from God ignited revivals across Europe and North America, proclaiming the gospel with fervor for over six decades. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, to John Stewart and Agnes Jamieson, both Irish immigrants who met in Scotland, he was the third of six children in a devout Christian family. Converted at age 14 in 1924 during a Sunday school class that left him trembling under conviction, he began preaching that year on Glasgow’s streets, later refining his ministry through practical experience rather than formal theological education, despite an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Bob Jones University in 1960. Stewart’s calling from God unfolded in 1928 when he founded the Border Movement in England, preaching at age 18 with the London Open-Air Mission, and by 1933, he launched the European Evangelistic Crusades, targeting war-torn nations like Czechoslovakia, Latvia, and Poland. Ordained informally through his early street ministry, he became the first Free World preacher behind the Iron Curtain in 1945, organizing relief and preaching amidst post-war devastation. Settling in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1948, he founded Revival Literature and wrote over 30 books, including The Phenomena of Pentecost (1960) and Evangelism Without Apology, while broadcasting on Radio Luxembourg (1949–1959). His sermons called for repentance and revival, often breaking down in tears. Married to Ruth McCracken in 1936, with three children—Sheila, James, and Sharon—he passed away at age 64 in Asheville.
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In this sermon transcript, the speaker expresses confusion about the purpose of preaching and asks for clarification. They mention a conversation with someone named Donna Stewart, who explains that preaching is meant to encourage Christians to attend church gatherings and participate in revival campaigns. The speaker shares examples of successful revival campaigns in Europe, where attendance was consistently high and believers were passionate about their faith. The speaker concludes that the reason for the lack of revival in some places is due to a lack of belief and hindrance of God's power by unbelief.
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Now, do not forget the book tables as you go out tonight. One on the right of Dr. Lee's literature and the one on the left as you go out of my own literature. And for the sake of the friends who have just come in for the first time tonight, I would like to mention to you that we have just a few copies left of our best-seller, Heaven's Throne Gift, about the work of the Holy Spirit, who He is and what He'll do for you right now, before you're translated home to glory. And then another, quite a number of books like The Glorious Third Person, a Bible study from one eternity to another eternity about the work of the Holy Spirit. And then our last little booklet, an exposition on Acts 2 on the Day of Pentecost and what actually took place on that day, and can I have a personal Pentecost in my life just now. And then we've been talking a little about revivals today, and this is called Dynamite in Europe, and it's the introduction is by my good friend, now in heaven, Dr. Harry Aronside, the pastor of the Moody Memorial Church. And this sister, Miss Eva Stewart Watt, was one of our greatest Christians in Europe. We have a little about after the walk. Two of you shall put glory to God. But I told you, we never write that end, sharing the stage years in a native. And then I said to you, what are you? And I'm cutting right now in the cabin. You all you know is about who was too mysterious, the supernatural, the sacred things of family, the theme, and all the earth is God speaking to biblical cycle. From the day of it, it begins with a super. In other words, you can have a revival. And there was so desperate, they carried on meeting. They're in Scotland. Now, what is revival? Revival is, revival has to do with the church, the unconverted people, John 5, 24. Very rarely I see unto you, hear it, hear it. Only you, my brother, you've lost the joy, and I'm all, I believe when believers have lost the glory, and maybe you've lost it, you remember? And now you've lost that. You read the book, it doesn't, in our French Bible, you know, the humiliation. When you are praying, you must say, she had been very, very, they will have to go. And then the next time, the next, and you have that in Psalm 63, that we shouldn't have all the nice things of life, where the Christians went, and every night, when she would leave. And then the next time revival is, you say unity. And you have it in many Psalms, the spirit of harmony in the church. Many, many believers in the prayer meetings. And you remember there in 1st Kings, 18, and Elijah, she had been praying. Has anybody ever came to you and seen the whole, the church of Jesus Christ? We, we hinder them by our unbelief. You lose the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
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James A. Stewart (July 13, 1910 – July 11, 1975) was a Scottish-American preacher, missionary, and evangelist whose calling from God ignited revivals across Europe and North America, proclaiming the gospel with fervor for over six decades. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, to John Stewart and Agnes Jamieson, both Irish immigrants who met in Scotland, he was the third of six children in a devout Christian family. Converted at age 14 in 1924 during a Sunday school class that left him trembling under conviction, he began preaching that year on Glasgow’s streets, later refining his ministry through practical experience rather than formal theological education, despite an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Bob Jones University in 1960. Stewart’s calling from God unfolded in 1928 when he founded the Border Movement in England, preaching at age 18 with the London Open-Air Mission, and by 1933, he launched the European Evangelistic Crusades, targeting war-torn nations like Czechoslovakia, Latvia, and Poland. Ordained informally through his early street ministry, he became the first Free World preacher behind the Iron Curtain in 1945, organizing relief and preaching amidst post-war devastation. Settling in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1948, he founded Revival Literature and wrote over 30 books, including The Phenomena of Pentecost (1960) and Evangelism Without Apology, while broadcasting on Radio Luxembourg (1949–1959). His sermons called for repentance and revival, often breaking down in tears. Married to Ruth McCracken in 1936, with three children—Sheila, James, and Sharon—he passed away at age 64 in Asheville.