Posts from August 2018

Posts from August 2018

Revival #2

Revival.  I ache for it.  I know, I said that last week…but it is still true and so I had to say it again. If you read last week’s blog you might think I was depressed, frustrated, or aggravated.  You might think that I think that the church is fatally flawed and everyone inside is out of touch.  I certainly don’t think that.  The church is God’s idea, Jesus loves the church, he died for the church, and it is…

Revival

  Psalm 85:6, “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” Revival.  What comes to your mind when you hear the word? The Reformation under Martin Luther in 1517? The First and Second Great Awakenings of the 1700’s and early 1800’s? The 1904 Revival that began in Wales? Not a student of history?  Then maybe it is… Week long visits to church when you were younger to hear a visiting minister? Traveling tent meetings on…