Revival - Amherst College

Amherst College was founded and was maintained for many years with the aim of educating young men to serve God. The school’s Latin motto, “Terras Irradient,” is an allusion to Isaiah 6:3: “The whole earth is full of His glory.”…

Revival - Yale College

In the 1700s, the First Great Awakening came to an end because of the influx of rationalistic thinking from Europe in the form of literature. Revival waned because books containing the philosophy of the Enlightenment were disbursed on the college…

Revival - Charles G. Finney

“When he opened his mouth he was aiming a gun. When he spoke bombardment began. The effects of his speaking were almost unparalleled in modern history. Over half a million people were converted through his ministry … in an age…

War Cry! - The Salvation Army

While women weep as they do now - I’ll fight! While little children go hungry as they do now - I’ll fight! While men go to prison, in and out, in and out - I’ll fight! I’ll fight to the…

Concerts of Prayer

OVER 200 YEARS AGO, JONATHAN EDWARDS prophesied that the glory of God would come to our nation and that the whole world would be evangelized as ministers and Christians around the world came together in a concerted effort to pray…

World Evangelization: Are we reaching closure?

According to the U.S. Center for World Missions, Christian evangelism in the last 100 years has reached a growth curve which is now increasing exponentially. Comparing the ratio of Christians per unconverted people in the world, the following statistics have…

The Victorious Overcoming Church

“Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up for her; that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the Church in all her glory, having…

The Cross of Jesus Christ

“Just as man is destined to die once and after that to face the judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but…

"Did Adam Have a Navel?"

.. and other questions of deep theological significance.* Often when encountering the objections people have concerning the Bible, I am left duly unimpressed with the quality of thought behind their skepticism. “Did Adam have a navel?” is one such…

A Note on Stephen Jay Gould

He’s been called “America’s most well-known evolutionist” by many; he is also evolution’s leading theoretician and radical thinker. This Harvard zoologist has proposed the idea of punctuated equilibrium as a response to the randomness of natural selection. …