Pastor Steve Lawson gives a topical sermon on the ministry and life, of the great George Whitefield. He explains why the Lord mightily used Whitefield, as He did. Whitfield is no doubt the greatest evangelist, and the greatest open-air preacher, ever since the days of the men of the Bible. Whitefield said, “My whole world
Next to the Almighty, my main mentor is my pastor. However, George Whitefield has been a great ‘mentor at large.’ Especially regarding open-air preaching. This sermon ‘Satan’s Devices’ was taken from 2 Corinthians 2:11. George Whitefield (Methodist evangelist, 1714-1770)
On March 20th, 1840, James Russell Miller was born into this world, in Frankfort Springs, Pennsylvania. On July 2, 1912, he entered his life of eternity, with his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Miller penned this devotion during in his middle-aged years. Oh how I do appreciate its prolificacy. “Folks, we must repent from our
On Oct 10th, 1858, Charles Spurgeon preached this message in the Royal Surrey Gardens, in Kennington, London. I realize that post-modern emergents, will not appreciate the following two observations. 1) This location was not at a church building. Spurgeon often preached out into the open-air, in public places like these gardens. Some of these open-air
A video description of ‘The infernal dungeon of Hell,’ by John Bunyan, 1660’s This message was preached back in the mid 1600’s. This style of preaching within America is nearly a lost art. Now many ‘churches’ are filled with an unbiblical love, and an emergent gospel. I hope to post more messages from different eras.
Video message “Is this all,?” by John MacDuff, 1856 Back in 1856, John MacDuff preached this sermon. Come back and visit our ‘puritans tag’ archives here.
This message is very old, but is so applicable to the post-modern church today. So many today are mitigating the inerrancy of the infallible Word of God. That is a form of apostasy. Oh how they will be miserably surprised. Notice that the standard of test is all based upon the Word of God. Not
This puritan wrote this newspaper column back in 1848. It’s almost prophetic to hear what he said, as we watch where we are today. He also warned about the many books that some Christians are reading a well. “I don’t want Satan to outwit us. After all, we are not ignorant about Satan’s scheming.” (2
On January 1, 1761, this Puritan devotional was preached at Princeton College. It was written and delivered by Samuel Davies. He died right after preaching this message. Hence, some said ‘He preached his own funeral sermon!’ Oh how we need more Puritans today.
