I picked up a church publication recently and read their welcoming message, “The Bible is not a book of dry doctrines, but it is full of practical instruction for your life, home, etc.” The message is clear. Doctrine and theology are “dry, boring, and irrelevant.” “Give us something that we can take home and apply […]
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Holiness– A Minister of the Gospel’s Greatest Need Revival and Revivalism, Chapter 2 The aftermath of the Great Awakening plus the explosive growth of the American colonies created a desperate need for training ministers of the Gospel. This, the original intent for the founding of Princeton, evoked ardent support for the founding of the […]
Samuel Davies, Part Two of Two RECOGNIZING TRUE WORK OF THE SPIRIT 3) The essential role of the Holy Spirit in revival “The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the great and only remedy for a ruined country—the only effectual preventative of national calamities and desolation, and the only sure cause of a […]
“’The chariot of the gospel never has free course, but the devil tries to be charioteer.’ There is nothing he is so much afraid of as the power of the Holy Ghost. Where he cannot arrest the showers of blessing, it has ever been one of his devices to dilute or poison the streams. […]
