Earnest Prayer
Brian Edwards hammers home the vital nature of prayer in revival: “In the first month of the first year of his reign, [Hezekiah] opened the doors of the temple of the LORD and repaired them (2 Chronicles 29:3). That is…
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God has come
“In 1858 John Girardeau was leading an evening service at this church in Charleston, North Carolina, when ‘He received a sensation as if a bolt of electricity had struck his head and diffused itself through his whole body. For a…
Yet in God new vigour
‘In that day I will gather the halting…’ These words are from John Calvin’s commentary translation of Micah 4:6 (though strictly speaking it is John Owen translating Calvin’s Latin). A week ago I headed up to the gym where I…
Gospel detonated
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15). ‘You’re not crazy!’ is the name of a podcast on The Gospel Coalition site which Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry…
The Day of the Lord
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done…