Sermons by Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman

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Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman (May 9, 1907 - February 20, 1976) was an American faith healer and Pentecostal evangelist. She was born in Concordia, Missouri to German parents and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following open-heart surgery.

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Biography

She was born-again at the age of 14 in the Methodist Church of Concordia, and began preaching in the West at the age of sixteen.[citation needed] Kuhlman traveled extensively around the United States and in many other countries holding "healing crusades" between the 1940s and 1970s. She had a weekly TV program in the 1960s and 1970s called I Believe In Miracles that was aired nationally. The foundation was established in 1954, and its Canadian branch in 1970.

Following a 1967 fellowship in Philadelphia, Dr. William A. Nolen conducted a case study of 23 people who claimed to have been cured during her services. Nolen's long term follow-ups concluded there were no cures in those cases. Furthermore, one woman who was said to have been cured of spinal cancer took off her brace and ran across the stage at Kuhlman's command; her spine collapsed the following day and she died four months later.

By 1970 she moved to Los Angeles conducting faith healing for thousands of people each day as an heir to Aimee Semple McPherson. She became well-known despite, as she told reporters, having no theological training. She married Burroughs A. Waltrip of Dallas, in which city he left his wife and two children, to marry Kuhlman in Iowa City, Iowa. She described Waltrip as "the best-looking guy there ever was". They soon divorced, as Kuhlman explained, "because he was divorced I had to choose between him and my work". However, journalists at the time believe the divorce might have occurred because "the sex-and-salvation worship was ... liable to be diminished if the object of adoration is married".

In 1975, Kuhlman was sued by Paul Bartholomew, her personal administrator, who claimed she kept $1 million in jewelry and $1 million in fine art hidden away and sued her for $430,500 for breach of contract. Two former associates accused her in the lawsuit of diverting funds and illegally removing records, which she denied and said the records were not private. According to Kuhlman, the lawsuit was settled prior to trial.

In July 1975 her doctor diagnosed her with a minor heart flareup and she had a relapse in November while in Los Angeles. As a result, she had open heart surgery from which she died in February 1976. Kathryn Kuhlman is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. A plaque in her honor is located in the main city park in Concordia, Missouri, a town located in central Missouri on Interstate Highway 70.

After she died, her will led to controversy. She left $267,500, the bulk of her estate, to three family members and twenty employees. Smaller bequests were given to 19 other employees. According to the Independent Press-Telegram , her employees were disappointed that "she did not leave most of her estate to the foundation as she had done under a previous 1974 will." The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation has continued, but in 1982 it terminated its nationwide radio broadcasting. She influenced faith healer Benny Hinn who has adopted some of her techniques and wrote a book about her.

Healing

Kuhlman's critics assert that she purposely deceived her audience because there is a lack of scientific evidence to prove the validity of faith healing.

Some accounts of healings were published in her books, which were "ghost-written" by author Jamie Buckingham of Florida, including her autobiography, which was dictated at a hotel in Las Vegas. Buckingham also wrote his own Kuhlman biography that presented an unvarnished account of her life.

Sermons by Kathryn Kuhlman

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http://www.imbf.info/mp3/Kathryn-Kuhlman/Gods-Will_03.mp3
http://www.imbf.info/mp3/Mental-Attitude.mp3
http://www.imbf.info/mp3/Salvation-is-Somebody.mp3
http://www.imbf.info/mp3/Kathryn-Kuhlman/Slow-Me-Down.mp3