Schoolteacher Started African Revival

In 1935, Blasio Kugosi, a schoolteacher in Rwanda, Central Africa, was deeply discouraged by the lack of life in the church and the powerlessness of his ...

Hymn-Singing at the Core of 18th-Century Revival

One of the most notable, but least studied, aspects of the 18th-century revivals that led to the rise of modern evangelicalism was the disputed place ...

Why "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Worked

[Eighteenth century pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards'] most famous composition, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)…is ...

"National Geographic" Writer Converted at Alabama Revival

Peter Jenkins began a five-year, 4,500-mile walk across America in October of 1973. First published as two articles in National Geographic, his memoirs ...

When Revival Blossoms

In Christianity Today,Todd Stames writes:

What started as a special presentation by the Pearl River Central High School's Fellowship of Christian Athletes ...

Harm of Radical Individualism

Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life, what sociologist Robert Bellah calls “radical individualism.” ...

Prayer That Pleases God

If our churches don't pray, and if people don't have an appetite for God, what does it matter how many are attending the services? How would that ...

Lost Horizon

We've lost sight of the fact that some things are always right and some things are always wrong. We've lost our reference point. We don't ...

Drought Brings Desert

During times of revival ... prayer flows more easily. Preaching is more powerful. Guidance is more vivid. In contrast at other times we learn the tougher ...

Back When We Needed God

Do you remember the Second World War? It was a time when people started coming to church as they never had before. From the mid-1940s up until 1950, churches ...