Issue 23 Spiritual Awakenings in North America

Introduction to this issue on spiritual awakenings in North America.

Fascinating facts about revivals in North America.

Spiritual awakenings have brought lasting benefits to the Church and the surrounding culture. Have we forgotten our great heritage of renewals?

Spiritual awakenings show similar patterns.

Origins of American Awakenings in New England & the Middle Colonies.

From a Sermon by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, 1712

The first Great Awakening in New England & the Middle Colonies

Snapshot of Jonathan Edwards, America’s greatest theologian.

Snapshot of George Whitefield, extraordinary evangelist of the Great Awakening.

The Awakening not only brought spiritual renewal to God’s people, and new conversions, but salt and light to the society around.

An Overview of 180 Years.

Francis Asbury & the Methodist Circuit Riders—Covering America with Spiritual Awakening

Awakening in the West

One of the greatest frontier preachers.

When Finney opened evangelistic meetings in October 1825, he was beginning seven years of the most intense evangelistic activity that the United States has seen.

Nettleton was a successful evangelist, who saw as many as 30,000 conversions.

The Gospel was meant by God to do more than just get people saved.

During the Third Great Awakening of 1857 to 1859, 10,000 people in New York City alone gathered together daily—even left work—to pray. The same thing was taking place all over the country, in small towns as well as in great cities.

Has the West grown so hardened through humanism and our adoration of material things that we can resist the moving of the Holy Spirit?

The influence of the awakening was felt everywhere in the nation.

Concluding thoughts on our great need to pray.

Where to find more information of spiritual awakenings.