Revival Preaching: Twelve Lessons from Jonathan Edwards
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
As part of his passion to bring glory to God, Ernie Klassen is particularly interested in the revival of God s people and the awakening of the lost. He believes strongly that God-honoring, Christ-exalting, and Spirit-empowered preaching plays a critical role in revival and awakening. No one models this dynamic better than Jonathan Edwards. He was a pastor who was a protagonist of the First Great Awakening. He thought deeply and critically about religious movements, and his reflections and sermons provide valuable “fodder” for reflection. Revival Preaching extracts the most important lessons of Edwards’s writings and sermons for preaching in today’s world.
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- Extracts the most important lessons for preaching in today’s world.
- Inspires to be fearless in your preaching and passionate in your longing for revival.
- Challenges to pray for revival.
I am very grateful to Klassen and his work on revival preaching. It is a call to bold faith and bold proclamation. Using the backdrop of Jonathan Edwards’s powerful preaching ministry, we are invited into a rich theological journey flavored with real-life experiences... This is a must-read for preachers at any stage. This book will inspire you to be fearless in your preaching and passionate in your longing for revival.
—David Hearn, President of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
Looking at the intersection of revival, preaching, and Edwards, Klassen provides ‘lessons’ that religious leaders can take from Edwards’s experiences and writings as a soul counselor and a ‘scientist’ of conversion... There is much wisdom to be had from his reflections on the nature of conversion, revival, and spirituality, gained from practical experience as a local pastor.
—Kenneth P. Minkema, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
I am so pleased to commend this book to my brothers and sisters in the English-speaking world. Those of us who live in the West stand in great need of God.... We need revival and what Jonathan Edwards called ‘regeneration.’ The book you hold in your hands is full of advice from Edwards himself on earnest preaching for revival.... May God stir your hearts and elevate your minds as you read, redirecting your desires and filling your life with divine things—the only things that really satisfy.
—Doug Sweeney, Second Dean of Beeson Divinity School and world-renowned scholar of Jonathan Edwards