Over ninety years ago, 55,000 people came to hear Billy Sunday preach in Boston. An overflow crowd of 15,000 had to be turned away from the temporary tabernacle that had been erected on Huntington Avenue. During the next ten…
Read moreHow a Boston shoe store clerk became America’s greatest evangelist A native of Northfield, Massachusetts, 17-year-old D.L. Moody was converted to Christ after hearing the Gospel from a member of Tremont Temple. The young man accepted …
Read moreJohn Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of John Adams. He served one term as President. His inaugural address closed with these words: “Knowing that ‘except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh…
Read moreSamuel Adams, cousin of John Adams, is called the “Father of the American Revolution.” He incited the Boston Tea Party, signed the Declaration of Independence and called for the first Continental Congress. A great orator, Samuel Adams once said…
Read moreBorn in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her and treated her as a family member. Rescued from an otherwise hopeless situation…
Read moreGeorge Whitefield first met John Wesley and when they were students at Oxford. Wesley was the leader of the “Holy Club,” a group dedicated to the pursuit of holiness. Wesley’s little band was derided at Oxford; they were ridiculed…
Read moreJonathan Edwards, famous for his classic sermon, “Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God,” is best known for his role in the Great Awakening, which began as a revival in several churches along the Connecticut River Valley. Through…
Read moreAlmost everything we know about Anne Bradstreet comes from her poetry in which she combined the longings of the human heart with a devout Christian faith. Though her poetry was admired by many contemporaries, she was criticized by some…
Read moreLong before becoming the governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop had a deep under-standing of God’s divine purposes for the colony. “We shall be a city set on a hill,” he said of Boston where the church was the center…
Read moreWilliam Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth colony elected to fill the place of the deceased John Carver, was responsible for the infant colony’s success through great hardships. The Pilgrims were part of a strain of Puritanism know…
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Revival, Resistance, Reformation, Revolution, Interposition and Nullification
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Explodes the myths of the liberal critics and the movies, books and television programs that have popularized their views.
