Four Things That Precede Revival
We continue to look at the greatest need facing our nation today. Richard Owen Roberts takes us to the record of the first major revival from the Old Testament as ...
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One Nation - One God - One Solution
What's the greatest need in our nation today, and what can remedy the crushing problems we face? The one solution for a nation that has lost its way is ...
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Preparing for Revival
Do you feel spiritually dry and empty? Today Byron Paulus, Director of Life Action Ministries, unpacks what genuine revival looks like in our daily life. Join us as we explore ...
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The Gospel and Revival: The First Great Awakening
The striking characteristic of preaching during the Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century was that the gospel was urgently preached. From eminent figures such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and John and Charles Wesley, to unheralded and obscure lay preachers both Calvinist and Arminian, all were convinced, as John Wesley put it, that nothing in the Christian faith “is of greater consequence than the doctrine of the Atonement.”[1] Jonathan Edwards Revival touched North America before Britain, and the preeminent figure in the New England awakening was Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758). He was, and remains, one of America’s greatest ...
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Reviving New York
It was not a good time for churches in downtown Manhattan, and the North Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton Street resorted to creative measures, hiring a businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier as a sort of outreach minister. He knocked on doors in the neighborhood and distributed pamphlets and Bibles, but response generally was dismal. "One day as I was walking along the streets," Lanphier wrote in his journal, "the idea was suggested to my mind that an hour of prayer, from twelve to one o'clock, would be beneficial to businessmen." The idea blossomed: a weekly prayer time, open to anyone ...
View Full ArticleWill I Ever Be a Leader of Prayer? 4/5
"It may be put down as a spiritual axiom that in every truly successful ministry, prayer is an evident and controlling force . . . . A ministry may be a very thoughtful ministry without prayer; the preacher may secure fame and popularity without prayer; the whole machinery of the preacher's life and work may run without the oil of prayer or with scarely enough to grease one cog; but no ministry can be a spiritual one, securing holiness in the preacher and his people, without prayer . . . . "The preacher that prays indeed puts God into the work. God does not come into the ...
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