601F Summer 2025 Miracle Working God

This class will explore examples where people were commissioned or supernaturally strengthened in order to accomplish tasks by God. In the first class, we will look at the Old and New Testaments to find examples including Moses, Joshua, Sampson, Jesus, Peter, and Paul. In the second class, we will look at examples where whole communities where impacted. This will include the 18th and 19th century First (1726-1750) and Second (1800- 1840) Great Awakenings in America, the Awakening in Wales (1904-06), and the Azuza Street Revival (1906).The third class will look at the God-led, more current work of John G. Lake, Smith Wigglesworth, Bill Johnson, Randy Clark, Heidi Baker, and Leif Hetland. The instructor will discuss some of his experiences on mission trips around the world and when he was healed by God of a frozen rotator cuff, elbow pain, and skin cancer.

Jim Cantwell is chair of the OLLI Philosophy and Religious Studies program planning group and has taught numerous courses at OLLI.