Roberts Liardon

Roberts Liardon (born 1966, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Pentecostal-Charismatic preacher, author, and church historian. He reported a near-death experience and visit to heaven at age 8 (1974); his account *I Saw Heaven* (1983), written when he was 17, sold over 1.5 million copies and launched his public ministry. He pastored Embassy Christian Center in Irvine, California, in the 1990s, and currently leads Roberts Liardon Ministries based variously in Texas and Florida, with international preaching across Africa and Asia. His major contribution is the *God's Generals* book and DVD series (1996–present), six volumes documenting the lives of Pentecostal-Charismatic revivalists, healing evangelists, missionaries, and reformers. He has published over 60 books overall.

• Fear of the Lord Emphasis — Liardon's "why some failed" framework is itself a fear-of-the-Lord pastoral application — the Spirit's gifts without holiness, accountability, and reverence collapse into ministry shipwreck. The diagnostic is implicit; explicit articulation in fear-of-the-Lord idiom is less load-bearing.
• Cost of Following — Liardon's *God's Generals: The Martyrs* (2015) volume is the explicit treatment; the cost is real and historically documented. His catalog more broadly emphasizes faith-and-anointing patterns more than cost-of-following motifs.
• Cessation — Strong continuationist; the entire *God's Generals* corpus is an extended argument for continuation through historical demonstration.
• Healing in Atonement — Affirmed; healing is the believer's covenant inheritance. Liardon's stream is broadly Hagin-influenced on this point.
• Heaven and Intermediate State — Heaven is real, conscious, embodied (in resurrection-state), and Liardon claims personal experience (*I Saw Heaven*). Bridges to the Burke / Don Piper / Sid Roth NDE stream.
• Prophetic Office Today — The prophetic office continues today; Liardon's catalog documents both genuine and fraudulent operations. Branham is the chief case study in extraordinary prophetic accuracy collapsing into late-life heresy — Liardon is unusually candid about this.