David Wilkerson shares about what I have learned to be “soul travail.” No one talks about it these days, but I’ve read about it from the Puritans and those whom God used in history to bring revival and renewal to God’s people.
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Anguish
September 29, 2011Interview with Collin Hansen, Part Two
April 9, 2008Picking up where we left off with part one of my interview with Collin Hansen, I ask the following questions in part two: 1. I am going to name off a list of words that begin with the letter “r”, and I want you to tell me which one you believe best describes this phenomenon. [...]
Interview with Collin Hansen, Part One
April 7, 2008Collin Hansen and I took some time last week to discuss his new book, Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (Crossway Books), which was just released last week. I have broken the interview down into three sections (podcasts), approximately 25 minutes for each section. I hope that this discussion will be [...]
Finney the Controversialist
December 3, 2007“Mr. Finney does not pretend to teach a slightly modified form of old doctrine. He is far from claiming substantial agreement with the wise and good among the orthodox of the past and present generation. On the contrary, there is a very peculiar self-isolation about him. Through all his writings there is found an ill-concealed [...]
Remember for your rich encouragement, the doctrine of sovereign grace.
November 14, 2007In his lecture, “Divine Agency in Revivals,” W.B. Sprague concludes with these words: “Go and do your duty to each other and to the world; go and instruct the ignorant and guide in the inquiring and put forth every effort you can to bring souls to Jesus; but remember after all, and remember for your [...]
New “New Measures”
October 23, 2007I’ve been reading some Finney lately, especially his Lectures on Revivals in which he defends his use of “new measures,” viz. the “anxious meeting,” “protracted meeting,” and the “anxious seat.” Finney believed that revival came through the right use of means which a preacher makes effectual the same way a sinner makes conversion effectual (“make [...]
Lloyd-Jones to Church Members: Read Jonathan Edwards.
October 19, 2007In his book, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote about “Jonathan Edwards and the Crucial Importance of Revival.” Needless to say, the church in the 21st century is in need of revival. The answer many churches are resorting to is the path of Charles Finney with protracted meetings (revival meetings) and [...]
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