J edwin orr biography of william hill
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Westmont Magazine Deepening Your Conversations with God
There were about five hundred college students in the auditorium on that muggy August night at Forest Home Christian Conference in Southern California. I have no idea what the other four hundred and ninety-nine were doing, but I know I was transfixed. An Oxford Ph.D., Dr. J. Edwin Orr, was delivering a lecture on the history of spiritual awakenings in North America and the role students, particularly praying students, had played in them.
Vivid in my memory was the story of the so-called 1806 Haystack Revival at Williams College in Massachusetts. It was so named because the little band of five students who wanted to pray that night were afraid to pray on campus. The hostility toward Christians was so intense that they even kept the minutes of their meetings hidden. So they went off campus to a nearby farm to pray for revival at their school. When a storm broke out, they burrowed under a haystack for protection. But
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Series: On This Day in Christian History – April 22 – By Mike and Sharon Rusten*
In 1536 John Calvin no longer felt safe in his native France, so he left for Strasbourg, a free city situated between France and Germany that had declared itself Protestant. On his way there he stopped for the night in Geneva, Switzerland. Just two months earlier Geneva had given its allegiance to Protestantism as a result of the labors of William Farel, who had been ministering there for three years. That evening Farel met with Calvin and immediately asked him to join in leading the church in Geneva. Calvin declined, saying he wanted to go to Strasbourg to study and write. Farel thundered at him that unless Calvin joined him in Geneva, God would bring down curses upon him. Somewhat intimidated by Farel’s pronouncement, twenty-eight-year-old Calvin agreed to stay, even though his preference was to go to Strasbourg.
Calvin’s initial stay in Geneva, however, was short. In January 1537 Geneva’s Council
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So there is a place for offering some key titles on this subject. Indeed, there are many thousands of books which could be offered here. inom will be much less ambitious, and only present a few select titles. There are of course all sorts of general books about the various great revivals and awakenings which are not included here, nor the biographies of the main players, such as Whitefield or Wesley or Edwards, etc.
What is revival?
Before proceeding, let me offer just a few definitions of revival. Stephen Olford says that revival fryst vatten “the sovereign act of God, in which He restores His own backsliding people to repentance, faith and obedience.” J. inom. Packer says it fryst vatten “God’s quickening visitation of his people, touching their hearts and deepening his work of grace in their lives.”
“Revival,” says Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “above anything else, is a glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It fryst vatten the restoration of him to the centre of the life of the Church.” A