August 6, 1801: Revival hits a Presbyterian camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky (as pictured in sketch below). Within a week, 25,000 were attending the revival services. Cane Ridge became the largest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening. Although the revival at Cane Ridge grew out of a Presbyterian gathering, it [...]
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The Communion of Saints: August in Christian History
Posted in Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Revival on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Toward Palm Sunday
Posted in Prayer, Preaching, Revival, tagged Audio on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry, Waymakers, offers several interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday, which this year is celebrated on March 28. He notes that in the days leading up to the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, Jesus had “instigated a movement of hope throughout the towns and villages of the [...]
Bishop Lindsey Davis: The wind-and-flame faith of Pentecost
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Revival, United Methodist Church, tagged UMC, United Methodist Church on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following reflection on Pentecost was written in 2000 by Bishop G. Lindsey Davis, now episcopal leader of the Kentucky Annual Conference and the Red Bird Missionary Conference. In many of our United Methodist churches, Pentecost Sunday will be observed only casually. For still others, no mention of Pentecost will be made at all. It [...]
The Global Day of Prayer
Posted in Discipleship, Holiness, Missions, Prayer, Revival, tagged Video on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stopping in for a brief visit last week at a United Methodist Church in Indiana, I was pleased to see a poster in the narthex indicating the congregation would be participating in this Sunday’s Global Day of Prayer. This international prayer event represents one of the most remarkable spiritual movements of our time. The Global [...]
An Ash Wednesday prayer
Posted in Church Renewal, Prayer, Revival on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning today and continuing through Palm Sunday on April 5, many Christians throughout the U.S. and around the world are observing a 40-day season of prayer, roughly coinciding with Lent. Here are the areas of prayer focus over the next several weeks, as described in the prayer guide, Seek God for the City. Feb. 25-March [...]
Bishop James King: ‘We are returning to God’
Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Holiness, Laity, Revival, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
South Georgia Bishop James King has a message for men in the Feb. 20 Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences. Professional economists suggest that the stock market has a way of correcting itself when things go to one extreme or the other. It appears that “correction” is a part [...]
A Lenten focus: ‘Prayers of biblical hope’
Posted in Church Renewal, Evangelism, Prayer, Revival on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For many Christians Lent has been transformed from a season focused on self-denial to a season focused on passionate praying for the fulfillment of God’s purposes in the world. The catalyst for that transformation is Seek God for the City, a prayer guide published yearly since 1996 by Waymakers, a ministry based in Austin, Texas. [...]
‘Preparing for revival’
Posted in Camp Meeting, Holiness, Revival, Sermons, tagged Audio on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had the privilege of hearing my District Superintendent preach yesterday at the Poplar Springs Camp Meeting (founded in 1832) in Franklin County, Georgia. The Rev. Dr. Robin Lindsey (he’s a down-to-earth guy who prefers to be called by his first name) is the Superintendent of the Athens-Elberton District in the North Ga. Conference. His [...]
