While I was looking for a segue between John Wesley and Charles Finney, I discovered that I’d neglected to look deeply enough into Wesley’s “Holy Club” and his significant association with the Moravians and Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf. This article will examine Zinzendorf’s secret society membership, his heretical doctrines, … Read More
This series was started in response to the supposedly spontaneous “revival” at Asbury University back in February. While I was working on this second part about John Wesley, a friend recently sent me a link to an article in PentecostalTheology.com showing that the event was pre-planned. Why am I not … Read More
“Statements such as ‘I follow Christ, not creeds’ smack of Christian mysticism. Anyone who downplays the role of theology in the church or who speaks of going ‘beyond doctrine’ is following the path of the mystic. Such a person will usually gravitate toward practices such as contemplative prayer or walking … Read More
“It is my earnest conviction that we have dreadfully complicated what Christianity is all about. I’m not saying supplemental materials are without value… But I do wonder what complex, interlocking, systematic theologies were bouncing around in Peter’s mind on the Day of Pentecost and in those fresh, exciting years that … Read More
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING The First Great Awakening has been described as a time when the preaching of the Gospel was accompanied by great power, the revivals credited with giving new life and bringing great numbers to the churches. The first name we find when studying the American revivals is … Read More
“Today’s thinking toward a democratic world state is neither a new trend nor an accidental circumstance; the work of setting up the background of knowledge necessary to the establishing of enlightened democracy among all nations has been carried on for many hundreds of years by secret societies. Secret societies have … Read More
This will be a bit of a “Crash Course” on several topics, but I feel like it’s an important backdrop before we jump into the American Revivals.. In part one we talked about the Asbury revival and its lack of a clear gospel message. We considered the differing definitions of … Read More
I started work on this series a while back when the “revival” at Asbury started making the news. I’d initially intended it to just be one piece, but there’s so much information that I decided to break it up into several parts. In part one, we’ll look at the event … Read More
