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The Charlie Kirk Show
Repentance Can Lead to Righteous Action
"Repentance is the posture for revival, right? We are all centers. We all shall fall short of his glory. Rooted in repentance is humility, recognition of the divine, recognition of his perfect order, right? Repentance is what the founding fathers were called to do by Jonathan Edwards, sinners in the hands of an angry God, that led them to create in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world. That's why I love the ninevah example, is that repentance can lead to righteous action.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"The Holy Spirit, the presence of God that used to shake mountains and killed on contact. If that's really in your life now, I want more than just busyness. I want more than just activity. There should be more than just here I read the Bible. I'm going to this and I'm going to that. Are you changing in your character? Are you actually changing in your character? If you're an anxious person, is it clear to everybody around that you have overcome that? If you're an angry person, is it clear to everyone around you that you've overcome that? If you're a fearful person, if you tend to be a self centered person, if you tend to be a self hating person, if you tend to be a self aggrandizing person, is it very clear to the people who know you best that you have radically changed in the very core of your being, there's been a radical regeneration of your character. Or are you just busy? Really busy. With all your religious activities. Look, I'm not, I want you involved, you know? I'm a minister. I want you involved. I want you to why do you think we give you the announcements? But don't miss the forest for the trees. How do you know then? That Jesus character is being reproduced in you. Well, Jonathan Edwards says at the end of his sermon, the paradoxical character of Jesus, the combining of traits that ordinarily you'd never see combined in any one person. Will be reproduced in you. That's how you know that you're not just becoming a nicer person or a more disciplined person or a more moral person, but you're actually having the life of Jesus Christ, reproduced in you. Example, think about it. Temperamentally, you have extroverts you have introverts, right? Go down the Myers Briggs thing, you know? You have thinkers you have feelers, right? You have people who are very decisive to people who are processed people who are just like, you know, let's keep thinking about it. Let's keep talking about it. You've really got people who temperamentally are predisposed to one set of traits or another. And that's all right. And to some degree, you know, because we'll never be completely renewed in the image of Christ until the very end of time, to some degree you expect that. But do you recognize the unique kind of character that Jesus Christ would produce? It's because of the gospel. It's because of the gospel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dr. Jerry Newcombe on 'The Road to Independence'
"A piece of tape here. It is from doctor Newcomb's a film that he helped produce, cut 47, the road to independence. Please play cut 47. The great awakening was a spiritual movement with political consequences. It reached its zenith with George whitfield, but this powerful series of religious revivals all began with a humble calvinist minister named Jonathan Edwards. His life and his preaching helped bring about what's called the first great awakening in America. That led to the Salvation of up to half of the south and one third of the north. The ideas of the awakening as historians say laid the foundations for what became the revolution, the awakening was the sowing the seeds for what became the freedom of the revolution. So I'm a great admirer of whitfield and Americans should appreciate his immense contribution. Anyone who's able to get Oz Guinness in a documentary or a film deserves great credit. Doctor newcombe, how do we watch that film and tell us more about it? Thank you very much. And there are other great guests too also in this whole series. Dennis prager and rabbi Daniel lapin and Janet Ellis and Eric metaxas, and my good friend, Bill Federer. And as well as Bill Peter low back. Yeah, he is, Bill, Bill is one of a kind. In fact, I remember when Bill and I first started to get to know each other in the early 2000s. And I said to him one time, we were walking on the streets of St. Louis. That's where he used to live. And I said, you know, Bill, the more you study, America's true history, the more you realize how the Christian faith, the Bible, played such an incredible pivotal role.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"You can get in touch with the spiritual. You can get in touch with a Supernatural. You can get in touch with a sacred. You can have mystical and spiritual experiences. And this usually they say, and it has nothing to do with religion. So you say fine. And then you move on and generally what they mean is we're not dealing with God per se. We're dealing with energy or dealing with the sacred, we're dealing with the soul. And when it comes right down to it, it is utterly impersonal. There's no, there's no spiritual person out there. You're getting in touch with? There's no God who smiles or frowns or who can ever contradict you. Have you ever been in a relationship? Of any intimacy in which the other person can't contradict you, can't fight with you. And yet in all these books, there's never a God who's that personal that he can ever tell you, stop this. Never happens. It's not personal. And because God can never say stop this, God can never say come to me. Let me hug you. Let me kiss you. Let me let me embrace you. It's utterly impersonal. The only reason I can tell that these books are selling like hotcakes is because if you read them after you've read how the experience of the great men and women of God, you realize how incredibly tepid it is. You read Jonathan Edwards, and you're looking at an ocean. And you read the books off the shelf and you're looking at a mud puddle. And yet it's possible to be so dying of thirst, spiritually speaking, that these things look like oceans. Now, the Bible, the Bible offers something far more far greater than anything that you're going to find on those shelves. Far crater. But I've left the theology for last. Because in this chapter, what we're going to do for the next 6 weeks, I think it's sick, maybe 7, but I think it's 6. For 6 weeks, we're going to go verse by verse. We're going to go through Romans chapter 8. Why? Because Roman's chapter 8 is the heaviest, it's the profoundest, it's the most theological. In some ways, it's the most difficult. Passage in the whole Bible on the key to experience of God and that is the Holy Spirit. There's no greater passage in all the Bible on the Holy Spirit. The Romans chapter 8. The Holy Spirit is mentioned continually in all through it. But more than that, if you want to understand the key to real experience of God and sort of the Holy Spirit is the key. The Holy Spirit is the key to experience with God. The Holy Spirit in biblical theology. Holy Spirit, when you become a Christian in 12s you, and then unites you with God. That's the reason. Because of the doctor of the Holy Spirit, Christianity is not basically a matter of the head, and it's not basically a matter of the will. It's basically a matter of the heart and of spiritual union with God. Because the Holy Spirit comes in, you don't have this in the other religions of the world. And second Peter, there's this incredible verse that I always go back to. It's just astounding. In second Peter chapter one verse three and four, he says, we've been made partakers of the divine nature. We've been because the Holy Spirit is God. And the Holy Spirit comes in in dwells us. There's just no other religion that talks like that.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"If the first mark of authentic authentic Christian experience is a kind of sense of God's absence. A desire for God. Not just to know. I mean, there's people out here tonight, probably that say, I know the God's not in my life. That doesn't mean you've got an appetite for it. Just to know it doesn't mean there's a hunger. That's the first mark, but the second mark is that for a Christian, when you study the truth and you think about the truth and you listen to the truth and you read the truth and you meditate on the truth sometimes often more and more we hope the information becomes sensation. The second of the marks of authentic Christian experience is that Christians are capable of a new sense of God. What do I mean? The trouble is, at this point, the Bible itself has to has to use the language of physical sensory experience to describe the new spiritual sensory ability that you get when you become a Christian. What are the physical senses? Seeing hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, okay? Did I leave any out? That was it. Anyway, those are sensory experiences. Now, when the Bible talks about what happens when you become a Christian, it uses sensory language. And it's so, so vivid. And in some ways, it's metaphorical, but what I'm trying to press on you here tonight is to say that in another way, it's not metaphorical at all. For example, the Bible is continually talking about the fact that Jesus blood is like sweet wine. The Bible says that many will come on the last day and sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and eat at the feast of the kingdom. The psalmist is taste and see that the lord is good. Peter says, you're a Christian if you've tasted the grace of God. They always get into sensory language or here's the best example I know, just to show you. The psalmist in psalm one 19 says open my eyes that I might behold wondrous things than thy word. Now you say, what do you mean open my eyes? I mean, we sing that all the time. Open my eyes. You can't see the paper. You open your you open the book. There's the word of God. You're reading it. What do you mean, open my eyes at MIT, wonders things. I'm reading it. I can see the words on the page. I can understand the words on the page. What is he asking for? And that's the second mark of authentic spiritual experience. A sense of God, that there are the truth of God brings a new sense on your heart. Nobody put this better than Jonathan Edwards. It's written a number of things on it. Let me write it to you. Let me read you his approach to it. He says, there's a difference between believing that God is wholly in gracious. And having a new sense on the heart of the loveliness and beauty and holiness and grace of God. There's a difference between believing that God is wholly in gracious and having a new sense of the holiness and grace of God. The difference between believing that God is gracious and tasting the God is gracious, is as different as having a rational belief that honey is sweet. And having the actual sense of that sweetness, a man may have a belief in sweetness without the experience of it, but a man can not have the experience without the belief. Now, what is he talking about?
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"I want to pause here. What a beautiful testimony to the modernistic work of God in Salvation. Salvation is of the lord. Try as this young woman might. There was nothing she could do to make her heart right to make her heart ready. There was nothing she could do to change her own mind and heart. It is when she stopped trying to do anything. And simply yielded the God and cried out for mercy, like the tax gatherer and that wonderful story about the text about the pharisee and The Tax Collector. The Tax Collector, he couldn't even raise his head, but beating on his chest could only cry out lord forgive me a sinner. Salvation is a monologue work of God. God does all of the work in Salvation. As it was once said, I think it might have been Jonathan Edwards. I'm not sure who it was. But someone once said, the only thing we bring to our Salvation is the sin that makes it necessary. Salvation is not a cooperative effort between man and God. God does all of the work in regeneration. God does all of the work in justification. God does that work. God changes the heart. God takes the heart of stone and gives the person a heart of flesh. And the first fruits of that regeneration, the first fruits of that justification, the first fruits of that will be repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. And we see that beautifully worked out in this story. As this young lady came to the end of herself and simply cried out to God in mercy, and he saved her. Just beautiful. Continuing on now on the story, there are multitudes in our congregation, Spencer writes. Who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. Who have a sort of indefinite hope about the aids of the Holy Spirit, yet to be experienced while they are pursuing the very course to fail of attaining any such aids. They think they must wait. They think wrong. They must work if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience. And there is not likely to be with any sinner, a just sense of his dependence till he earnestly intends and attempts to obey the gospel.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Hello, everyone. Welcome to another edition of the bunion of Brooklyn podcast. I am your host, Tony Milano. Thank you for joining me. In this edition, we're going to read two more sketches, two more stories out of pastor ichabod Spencer's wonderful book, a pastor's sketches. If you're new to the podcast and you're not familiar with pastor acaba Spencer, well, that's part of the reason why the podcast exists to introduce this book and this pastor to a broader Christian audience. Briefly, pastor ichabod Spencer affectionately known as the bunion of Brooklyn, that's how this podcast gets its name. Patrick kebab Spencer pastured a good sized church, a healthy church in Brooklyn, New York in the mid 19th century. And it amongst his many pastoral duties, he often gave time to people one to one to talk about spiritual things and to engage them in apologetic conversation and evangelistic conversation and he took the time to chronicles those stories in his book a pastor's sketches. Now, interesting to note about pastor Rick mob Spencer that his pastorate in Brooklyn, which would be his last pastor, he would pass her there until the lord took him home. Was his second pastor at his first pastoral assignment was in the church that many years prior had as its pastor none other than Jonathan Edwards. Of course, Jonathan Edwards, the lord used him and what is known as the great awakening, a great revival in the United States in the 18th century. Well, pastor ichabod Spencer would also see a wonderful time of revival in when he was pastoring that church as well in the early 19th century. So this podcast is dedicated to reading through this book of pastor's sketches and along the way I will provide some commentary as to what it is that we are reading. Hopefully to add a little bit to the stories that we're reading together and maybe to provide some application for what we're reading in our own in our own lives. All right, with that, let's get started. The first sketch we're going to read today is titled business hindrance. Business hindrance. A member of my congregation, a young man who was an apprentice, became attentive to the subject of religion and, finally, his convictions became very distressing.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"It touches every area that we need to be touched with. Leaves nothing uncovered. Praise your name for that. We thank you this morning that we can laugh at these news items this week about the origin of the universe. And not in derision so much as by your grace, you have bestowed upon us faith to lay hold of a simple genesis one. In the beginning you created the heaven and the earth, you're the one who put the stars in their place. And made these galaxies and this wonderful universe in the world. And we thank you all creator God for that and we thank you that you have taken just a small group of people. The believers of this world and given them the gift of faith that we might be able to understand. That we might be able to understand mysteries that have perplexed the wise men of this world from the beginning of time. We praise your name for that. We pray that these next moments here in this service would be a blessing because the power of the spirit be upon us. In Jesus name, amen. Just because we can produce in our evangelism and in our churches and aura of joy and victory does not mean that that's what's underneath. Oftentimes what you see in the surface, it's like the ocean, the Bible said the wicked are like the troubled sea. Whose water is cast up Meyer and dirt can't rest. And sometimes we're that way on the surface. It looks like things are going well in our churches in our evangelistic efforts. But underneath there can be an uneasiness and a dissatisfaction. I believe there's never been a day in which we've had more missionaries. I know there has. More mission organizations, more churches, and possibly more people attending church. And we have today. And others prayer being made for revival, and we're evaluating things and hoping, and yet we don't see sinners turning to Christ in great numbers. And it's easy and we preachers have a tendency to say, well, it's a day in which we live. We look back and you see Jonathan Edwards day in early New England and whitfield in England and you see the power of God being on those men and on their ministries and great revivals and I read those a lot of times with a real envy. And think, why don't you do that again, lord? And what we have today is a lot of grasping, even as we have in politics when they're trying to fix our budget down in Juno or over in Washington superficial solutions to these problems. And so we come up with solutions like if we all join together, we'll have more power. If God's Bible believing people join together and we merge mission boards
Truth For Life Daily Program
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"What do you think she was saying with her boy complete bedlam in his life going all over the place? Listen to this. Sound familiar? Our young people are growing up at a period when the foundations of the earth are out of course. And when subtle and restless efforts are made to poison their hearts and pervert their ways, nothing therefore can be more important than to fortify them with sound principles. That when withdrawn from the parental wing into a world of temptation, they may be under a divine cover as the children of a special Providence. This is the introduction to a book on proverbs. October 7th, 1846. So a 160 years ago, the fellows writing in the introduction to proverbs and he goes, this is terrible. Our young people are in just in dreadful predicaments if they I can't believe the kind of things that are going on. The books that are out there, they haven't even reached the silent movies yet. Can you imagine what if somebody was dropped down from 1846 just to watch MTV? Could they conceive of such a world? 1846, that decade is interesting. Because it's in that decade that Jonathan Edwards, whose name you may know, and some of his colleagues started to call for what he referred to as a great awakening. Started to ask God to come and visit North America with a dramatic display of his power and of his wisdom. What most of us don't know is that what motivated this call from the heart of Edwards and his friends was the secular thinking being taught at Harvard and Yale. And they were so disappointed as graduates of Yale and how things had gone and what they had been taught. That they asked God to come and speak wisdom again into our land. Now, if you think about this, it is quite fascinating because Harvard was founded in the 17th century. Glasgow university in the 14th century. But anyway, we needed to produce the scholars to bring them over here so you could have a university. But anyway, sorry for that dreadful jingoistic burst couldn't resist it. But anyway, 16th, 1636, Harvard is founded. 1642, the student handbook is published in which every student at Harvard is called to be quotes. Plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well that the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, and therefore to lay hold of Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. That 1642 Harvard student handbook. So if you send your son off to Harvard in the 17th century and he came home with a handbook and you were washing his laundry and you had a little look into the handbook, you would discover that your boy was in a good spot, or your girl was in a good spot. There, they're going to be compelled to consider the fight, that the only found of genuine knowledge and understanding is there in a foundation which can be laid by no one other than Jesus Christ himself. Yale was founded in 1701. And the reason for the founding of Yale was because congregational believers that his believers in the congregational church were disappointed by the growing apostasy at Harvard. And Edwards and his colleagues emerged from Yale and said, we better try another place. And they found it Princeton University as a reaction to Harvard and a Yale. What is the point of declension at every point? It is the departure from wisdom and the embracing of earthly perspectives.
Evangelism Training Podcast
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Evangelism Training Podcast
"Yeah. Interesting story about that. So a trivia question, what's the most impactful sermon ever preached on American soil? What would you say the first sermon that comes to mind is probably when you expect me to say, Jonathan Edwards centers in the hands of an angel God? Okay, good. All right, you passed the test. Did you know that it became so popular? It was the second time he preached that sermon. I did not know that. The first time he preached that sermon was at his own church. And it actually says that people left the sermon going, hey, I wonder if the weather is going to hold up for us to get to, hey, out of the fields this week. You've probably had that people respond to your servants like that, right? Like that was a response. It was only a couple weeks after that that he went to this little
The Charlie Kirk Show
This Is What Makes the Founding Fathers So Extraordinary
"Natural reality that does not believe that there's an overarching design to our existence. You of course are talking about people that want to be God themselves. It's nothing new. We've seen it. It's somewhat predictable almost. When you see people that get into power, they themselves want to turn into deities. This is one of the reasons why the founding fathers were so extraordinary, founding fathers are worthy of study. There were examination where they perfect of course not. However, the founding fathers were exceptional and they were brilliant. You see the founding fathers after they won the war. Against the British Empire very well could have made the washiton, Hamiltonian, jacksonian monarchy. They could have subdivided America and made every state its own kind of feudal territory because that's all humans knew before them. Before the founding fathers broke away and won against Great Britain. One against king George, the people of America, they wouldn't have known any different. Now there was a grassroots desire for self government thanks to the strong biblical teachings of Wesley and mayhew Jonathan mayhew and Jonathan Edwards and whitfield. Thanks to the colonial preachers that laid the foundation, roger Williams, as well, that started the foundation. For when it ended up being the revival of self government, the breakthrough in time, the 4000 year leap forward. And because of all of that, the founding fathers that decided to go a different way. They might have had many shortcomings. But they didn't have a shortcoming where they thought they were God. I can't say the
WGN Radio
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on WGN Radio
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National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Life as compared to your commitment to me to jesus. It's whoever loses. His life for me will find it. I want to just talk about that for a minute in my own life because part of what came to me very quickly as the holy spirit began to open. This was the truth. The reality that i have lost almost every aspect of my personal life would mean. I've lost people that i love. Because i had to put jesus ahead of them and many of those people didn't like it that i put jesus ahead of them and so they bailed out they didn't want to be a part of my life. They cut me off. Can i be straight. They cut me off. They won't talk to me. They said don't call me. One man even went so far to change phone number to be certain that i could not call him. People get angry when they recognize that. They are secondary in your life as compared to jesus christ my late wife jan. We always said to one another from the very beginning of our friendship and marriage. We always said jesus must stand between us. He has i right on our life. You jan are secondary to me. Jesus is first and likewise she said raymond you are secondary in. Jesus is know when she died. I was very upset until the lord said to me. Didn't you say that. I stood between you and i had. I writes on her life. Yes i did say that. Well i simply claimed what you said was mine and i backed down. Yes he had need of her and so he took her and he had every right to do so. Because i was second in line she was first with jesus well every other aspect of my life when i first began this journey. I was an entrepreneur. I wanted every way possible to make my church. Grow larger and larger. I i learned a great deal about guerrilla marketing about mail and and promotion learned how to speak to my board in my congregation in a way that would rally them to what i wanted to do like i convinced them. Let's do television for christmas one year and so everyone pulled together and we raise the budget of ten thousand dollars so that we could do a special christmas show on channel seven in washington. Dc that was not led by the spirit that was led by my own ego in my own desire to be successful and to build. My church makes me weep today. Most pastors that i know are entrepreneurs their promoters and they're always looking for the next new idea and implementing that new idea in their sermon and using it in such a manner to get the congregation and the board to go along with desires and its wickedness holy spirit. It's human spirit and most churches in america today have been built on human spirit not holy spirit. So part of what. I've had to identify as the fact that my ability to make great plans and implement those plans to build the kingdom of god. I've had to lay those aside. I want what the holy spirit wants to build. Not what my flesh wants to build. And if it's going to be it's up to god it's not up to me. I'm not going to manipulate for money. I'm not going to manipulate to gain a program advantage going to wait upon the lord. Jonathan edwards made his congregation very angry and upset with him because he began spending sixteen to eighteen hours a day in his prayer closet reading the scriptures in crying out for the salvation of his congregation because it was a half converted congregation. They were great in religion but did not want to die out and leave their leaves our lives. They wanted to keep their lives and keep their religion and he preached against that and finally went to them with the sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god and they yawned. It didn't touch them made them angrier and finally when a crisis came up over some unclean behavior on the part of some teens in the church and he dealt with they fired him but the first great awakening began as he preached centers in the hands of an angry god in another church and the spirit of god fell in great power in america was prepared by the preaching of jonathan edwards for the great conflict with england.
Leading Saints Podcast
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"To ask myself if I have allowed my life experience to limit God's true identity in my mind's eye. All right, so this is an example. Jonathan Edwards was bitter preacher. And had some really skewed perceptions about God and as you really just angry with us and hold us over like a spider over hell. You can see that I would imagine maybe Jonathan Edwards at a difficult time filling up those pews on Sunday. A misunderstanding of doctrine can lead to negative church culture. You see this in, for example, mission culture, right? If there's too much of a push for youth to serve missions, it can suddenly be interpreted as a doctrine that emission is a form of a saving ordinance. It is definitely not. It's just easy to blame it on culture, right? Oh, well that's just mission culture and but when we recognize that there's actually a misunderstanding of doctrine, then we can we can approach this issue a little bit differently and think, oh, I see some people misunderstand the doctrine of missions and see it as some type of saving ordinance. Well, I'm going to make sure that my children know that missions aren't a saving ordinance, but the temple is, and so let's maybe point people towards the temple. Another one is this concept of families can be together forever. On the surface on the superficial primary song level, yeah. Yeah, that's true. Families can be together forever. But then it also perpetuates this idea of what I call the empty chair in heaven fallacy. People assume that their loved ones who may be separate themselves from the church or who don't keep their comments that they live in a far off location with no zoom or cell service. We didn't reality we don't understand the simple nuances of what the afterlife is like. And when we perpetuate this doctrine that families can be together as if it's a doctor based on geography and what neighborhoods people live in, then that can perpetuate very negative church culture because somebody has misunderstood doctorate. And who wants to go to a church where it seems like, oh, you've got to do these things or you won't be able to see your mom in the afterlife. Again, that's not helpful and perpetuating a positive church culture..
Leading Saints Podcast
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on Leading Saints Podcast
"Be done. And that can perpetuate a very negative culture because people are thinking like, why are we doing this? This is an effective, but only reason I get is that it's on this unwritten order of things, right? Another example is dominating church callings. I see this a lot and I get these heartfelt emails from for primary presidents who are saying, I am trying to be a good leader, but I just sit in sacrament meeting as I hear calling from the bishopric about who's serving as primary teachers and I have no say in what's happening in sometimes we have this prevention mindset as leaders or as a bishopric where we think there's so many moving parts in this war, like what am I going to do and what if two people suggest the same person and I'm going to have to make the decision anyways? They have book says it sort of might call what to say or who to put in all these callings. So I'm just going to do it for them. That's a very close mindset because you're removing that opportunity from personal revelation, from these organizational leaders and whatnot. Taking control that can be very close mindset. Sometimes people obsess on the handbook. Of course, we should turn to the handbook. We should follow we should be familiar with it, but sometimes you get to the point where people make suggestions or have ideas that aren't necessarily against the handbook. But they're also not found in the handbook, so therefore, maybe we shouldn't do them because if we should do them then the handbook price says we should do them. To become very handbook obsessed that can create a closed mindset and lead us astray. And lead us towards a negative church culture. All right, so we've talked about the lack of ability and mindsets. Close mindsets lead to or fixed mindsets can lead to negative church culture. The third one of reasons why negative church culture happens is misunderstanding doctrine. Now I'm not a doctoral scholar, and you probably aren't either. I'm sure I have certain beliefs in the gospel that I've learned or come to my own conclusions that are probably wrong, right? I don't claim to have it all figured out. But I do my best and I let people know that I don't know it all. And so maybe I'm wrong some places. But there is this sometimes a perpetuation of certain doctrines that are faults, and when we sort of embrace them as true, it can lead to negative church culture. And let me give you an example of this. I'm actually in the process of finishing off a manuscript, and I share this story in the manuscript. So let me read from that manuscript. The story about Sarah Edwards, and you can kind of see how false doctrine can lead to negative church culture. Sarah Edwards was the wife of a bitter puritan preacher in the mid 1700s named Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards was not known as an encouraging preacher full of hope and grace. He tended to scare people into the belief by articulating the.
National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"jonathan edwards" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"The first shots of that war were fired by a baptist pastor in his elders he had come to church that morning in the uniform of the continental army and he invited his elders in the farmers to join him and they went to prevent the compass of firearms. It was the preaching of jonathan edwards. That turned a nation toward the lord in such a way that the lord could bless america and give it success against the british. That was a war. We should not have won. But by the merciful hand of almighty god. We overcame we need another great awakening because today we are filled with every vile wickedness. We have a situation where our our moral values have been. Utterly destroyed in. America are ethical. Values have been eviscerated. They have all vanished into thin air and have been replaced by lies. Deceit and the golden calf. And god's judgments are about to fall upon this nation with fire and indignation. He is angry with america. And so i'm going to read for you. Most of centers in the hands of an angry. god. I don't have time to read the entirety of it but i will do as much as i can. His scripture was found in deuteronomy thirty to thirty two verse. Thirty five foot shell slide in due time. Let's pray lord of masking. That as i read this powerful message out of the past from seventeen forty one. I asked the same mighty holy spirit who fell upon the congregation as they listen to. This message will fall upon this radio congregation in this internet congregation. Masking that out of this. You will ignite another great awakening. Lord i trust you. I will only receive from your hand. What you choose to give me..
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"jonathan edwards" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"The following program is sponsored by the national prayer chapel dry. He heart hard. Didn't know i read to saw y liz you use wash me. The and why a dry is my hough friends cold. I be too candy for an old mind. The great struggle. The great struggle of jonathan edwards day is still the struggle today pastor stoddard. His grandpa brought into the church half converted. Meaning those those people who are second generation who never had had a real conversion experience wanted their children to be baptized into the church. They wanted funerals that were christian and they wanted christian marriages. They wanted a pastor to oversee their wedding day. Jonathan edwards was totally opposed to the half converted. And i agree with him in this message that i'm going to share with you today. Centers in the hands of an angry god. One of his.
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"jonathan edwards" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Is jeff. Throw in the place of god. Now i wanna speak about quickly human wisdom it almost always will come seeming as though it is wise and profound and the outcome will be excellent. We have in the church today. A whole and it's been going on now for a number of years out of the church growth people that somehow you have to have a statement of purpose for your church. You have to have goals for your church. I thought the goals for the church were found in the great commission. I don't find separate goals for the church. But it like human wisdom to get that all put together. And then let's have a flow chart of how we're going to achieve all of this and so boards will spend hours hammering out their action plan for the coming year. And it's all based on human wisdom and so pastures day by enlarge. Our ceo's and most american pastors are program managers and they keep themselves very very busy often wit's end because people will say to me it will pass. I know you're very busy. And they're kind of stunned when i say no. I'm not really busy. What do you mean you're not busy. Well i'm spending a lot of time in prayer scripture. Meditation is that business no. That's not busy. Jonathan edwards had to deal with this. I read his account. He takes over his grandpa's church and the people are wanting him to attend many different social events that are held by the families of the church and he turns them down instead he sits in his study some for a long period of time for some eighteen hours a day he would be in his study and he would be weeping before the lord over the loss condition of his church he would be reading the scriptures he would be praying he would seeking he was seeking after god for a great awakening. She saw the wickedness in the church and he was very troubled by it is grandfather had admitted those who were half converted. That is those who were not totally committed to jesus who were still walking known sin and gave them. The privilege of having christian marriages in christian burials and after jonathan edwards had work. This through in the per- closet. He finally said you know what we're going to end this practice. If you're not a totally committed christian if you're not totally given to jesus if you're still walking known sin you cannot be a member of this congregation. Will that did not go over well. And so he wrote a very dry sermon called sinners in the hands of an angry god and he delivered it to his church in dry monotone and they were bored and nothing happened but in neighbouring church heard about the sermon and they invited jonathan edwards to come and deliver that same sermon to their church and so he stood before the congregation and he began to read a dry monotone. This sermon in the hands of an angry god and the power of the holy spirit felon the place. People begin to weep and grown and fall to the floor then began to grab the pillars in the church. They were afraid they felt like it was the whole church was tipping and they were going to fall into the pit of hell. Great conviction sees the people in the great awakening began now. It's interesting that jonathan edwards wife was so stricken with conviction and so filled with joy of the holy spirit that all she could do was lay in bed and sing praises to jesus she even stand she was so filled with the spirit and jonathan edwards had take care of his wife many stories out of this. But i share this with you today to say that it always seems wise and profound to accept human wisdom on the organization of the church. The church has to have a a ceo. It has to have a coach. It has to have programs that has to have this and has to have that it needs air conditioning. In the sanctuary it needs soft cushions on the seat. It has to have beautiful carpet. Has to who says that's not the way churches grow new carpet won't make your church grow one church out by wooster ohio. They were small church. They decided the only way they could grow as to borrow the money and build a a beautiful fellowship hall where there was a floor. Wood floor put in for basketball and a full basketball court so the families could gather for basketball and volleyball and social gatherings and and this is going to make our church grow. We'll guess what it didn't cause the church to grow and they have struggled year after year paying off this foolish mortgage. Human wisdom is utterly foolish. It seems wise. It seems profound number. Two human wisdom seems to always come with with basically good intentions. People have said to me pastor. You just can't do that. I can't jesus told me to will. It's not it's not wise. You're going to end up losing everything you're going to end up having to go off the air pastor because people won't give if you don't ask them to give money for this broadcast you'll go off the air a.
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"jonathan edwards" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Cannot follow the lust of the flesh. I e fallen nature. Now the modern church says you always will fall the fallen nature. And you can't help yourself. But jesus has you covered. He gave you buy imputing to you. His righteousness so when jesus looks at you. He doesn't see you. He sees himself. That's a direct contradiction contradiction of the book of galicians. It's a lie and it will take you to hell. Listen now i say you must walk in the spirit that is in the anointing of the spirit you must absolutely you cannot follow the lust of the flesh or the fallen nature now the flesh las or craves or desires against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. Indeed these things oppose each other so that you may not do these things that you may desire but if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law. Early sunday morning. The lord gave me a very brief vision. I was lying in bed. I was worshiping the lord as i always do. I take a few minutes when i wake up in the morning. To begin to just thank him for a new day task it only his will would be done in my life. You that data dedicate myself utterly to the work of the holy spirit to ask him to. Please bless the worship service that was going to be held at ten that morning and suddenly i was given a vision very brief. I was on the edge of a great abyss a terrifying abyss. I could not see the bottom and as you look down into. the bishop. Feel a little bit dizzy. Like you're going to be pulled over into it and for about two feet. There was a a very slippery edge right on the edge of that abyss. You could not stand on it without sliding in and falling. You could not rescue yourself. If you stood on it you would slide into that abyss. And i as i stood there looking at it. I said lord. Am i looking at an abyss. I remembered the sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god how jonathan edwards described the life of the christians at that day in his congregation. As as right on the edge of the abyss and they were about slide in and be taken into hell. I said lord is that my spiritual condition. Are you showing me in suddenly right beside me. I could see as i looked down at the abyss. I looked my i just to the right and there stood a man. I couldn't see the man. All i could see was from his knees down. And i immediately recognized the big black boots this man was wearing. I had just had a conference with this man and had urged tim to leave his alcoholism and turn to the lord. Jesus yes not done. That urged him not to drop into the abyss. I watched as he lifted one foot with one big black boot and he put it on that slippery service. And then he began to try to lift the other one but his foot slipped and immediately pulled back and then he lifted his other foot and he put up on that slippery slope and he tried to get a foothold. He wanted to stand right at the edge of the abyss as close as he could without falling in several times he tried to stand on that slippery slope and each time he could in each time he pulled this put back and then i was awake out of the vision that began to cry out for this man and say lord. He's like so many christians they keep lifting up one foot and putting it on the slippery slope and expecting to stand but they can't so they pull it back and then they step up with the other foot thinking that it will get a grip but it can't so their life is always feeding the flesh and then doing something in the spirit praying reading the scriptures trying to do something worthwhile but then they go right to the television. They go right back to the to the entertainment of the internet. They go right back to their alcohol. Some wicked practice. They go right back to their lust of the flesh and then they go back and try to go to church. Pay their tithe. Do some things that might please the lord and they go to church and there's no rebuke for their double life rebuked for their abominations seeker sensitive churches. If you're in a secret sensitive church run get out of there. Don't stay it'll take you to hell one day you'll step up and you'll think you've got a footing on that slippery slope.
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"jonathan edwards" Discussed on National Prayer Chapel, Pilgrim's Progress
"Expected their pastor to attend that social gathering and grace it with his with his blessing on their food and his blessing on their wonderful party and jonathan edwards wanted nothing to do with that. He was vitally concerned with their salvation with the condition of their souls. It was vitally concerned with whether they were half converted or fully given over to jesus christ and so eighteen hours a day he would spend in his study printing and weeping crying out to god for his church and for the church that was that was in many other places as well and he saw the eroding of the vitality of the holiness of the church so he read the word and he prayed and cried out to god for police spirit. Anointing the result of all of that time in the prayer closet was he wrote that famous or infamous sermon called sinners in the hands of an angry. God if you have not recently read it. I encourage you to do so jonathan edwards. It was said was not a good preacher. You read from a manuscript in a dry monotone. He was not the excellent preacher. That george whitfield was or or john wesley in later years but he he was given the power in the presence of the holy spirit. He preached in his church sinners in the hands of an angry god and it was oh home. There was virtually no response. The church was basically at war with their pastor. A neighboring church heard about this sermon and they invited jonathan edwards to come and preach sinners in the hands of an angry god in their congregation. Now they all considered themselves to be good christians..
The BreakPoint Podcast
Jonathan Edwards and the Call to Prayer
"Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel observed that the opposite of love is not hate it's indifference and hopelessness like so many of us feel right now in the midst of this perfect storm of pandemic and justice political unrest rioting can lead us to indifference after all. What can the typical person do about all this crazy stuff going on but Christians cannot succumb to hopelessness and we're never allowed to retreat into. Indifference to love is the very first and greatest commandment I god and then others we are Peter Rowe born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. We might not feel like that's true. But it is the Great Jonathan Edwards a leading theologian and perhaps America's Greatest Christian? Philosopher served in pastoral ministry in the Eighteenth Century during the height of the enlightenment and an essay he wrote. Entitled a call to United Extraordinary prayer a humble attempt. How's that? For a title Edwards argued that for the Christian to maintain their love for God and for others defined by whole ball avoiding despair regular prayer was essential. However, Edwards was clear that prayer does not bring hope to believers by guaranteeing that God will line up with us in our request. Rather prayer aligns the believers and our request to the Kingdom of. God and it does so in at least three ways first per- teachers are hearts and minds too long for God's Power and glory here's Edwards there is much in what we have seen of the glorious works of God's Power and grace to put us in mind of the yet greater things of this nature that he has spoken of in his word and to excite our longings and our hopes of their approach the. Of His presence that is knowing in believing the one true. God of the Universe is meant to excite us towards greater prayer for the continuance increase and greater extent up such blessings. Second prayers, the principal means by which Christ Kingdom advances again, here's Edwards so it is. God's will through his wonderful grace that the prayers of his saints should be one great and principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ's. Kingdom in the world what an astounding thought. So often we ask but other than pray what can I do as if praying isn't doing something, but it is it's even effectual. Saint James says in his epistle and finally our prayers are not merely that God would save our nation but that he would pour out his spirit on our nation through the church. But that God would appear for his Church Road Edwards. And mercy to miserable men carry on his work in the land and in the world and fulfill the things he spoke of his word that his church has been. So long wishing and hoping and waiting for the restoration that we long for is not for some pass good old days as a country. But rather for a restoration to the purposes of God, We pray for God to heal our nation to revive. The church even as we long for and await the day when the Lord will return restoring his creation and making all things new these words of Edwards describe at least in part by a few thousand of us have been gathering virtually each of the last few weeks every Wednesday morning between now and November the fourth, which is the morning after the twenty twenty election for a time of national
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Shadows and Streams
"May. The. Glory of the Lord dewar forever may the Lord Rejoice in his works? On the Earth trembles who touches the mountains and they smoke. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have being. my meditation be pleasing to him. For I rejoice in the Lord. Some one. Oh Four. Versus thirty one to thirty four. God rejoices in his works of creation. Because they point US beyond themselves to God himself. God means for us to be stunned and awed. By his work of creation. But not for its own sake. He means for us to look at his creation and say. If the mere work of his fingers. Justice Fingers Psalm eight three. So full of wisdom and power and grander, and majesty and beauty. What must this God be like in himself? These are but the back side of his glory as it were darkly seen through a glass. What will it be to see the glory of the Creator himself not just his works A billion galaxies will not satisfy the human soul. God and God alone. Is the souls and Jonathan Edwards expressed like this. The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven. Fully to enjoy God. Is Infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. These are but shadows. But God is the substance. These are but scattered beams. But God is The Sun? These are but streams. But God is the ocean. This is why some one oh, four comes to a close in verses thirty, one to thirty four with a focus on God himself. I will sing praise to my God while I have being for I rejoice in the Lord. In the end, it will not be the seas or the mountains or the canyons or the water spiders or the clouds or the great galaxies that fill our hearts to breaking with wonder and fill our mouths with eternal. Praise. It will be God. himself.
The BreakPoint Podcast
Join Us in Prayer for Our Nation
"To join us for the call center. I'm John. Stonestreet, this is great for. Christians should be among those most deeply concerned about the divided state of our nation left versus right mass. No mass reopened versus stay at home virtual school versus in person raised politics police abortion religious liberty not to mention the remainder of what certain to be brutal presidential campaign. The issues we face range from essential to non-essential on essential matters, we should mourn deception and vowed to fight. For the truth on non essential matters we should mourn and hope to overcome division God's people can neither stay on the sidelines nor run away from the struggle instead knowing there is no hope other than Christ. We must ask onto mercifully powerfully mobilize us is people to advance that which is true and good if Christians are to speak with clarity courage and confidence and to be the. Of Truth and love and a world of Noise Echo Chambers, then we'll need to be prepared but even perfectly crafted arguments cannot replace Shut Colson would say the church being the Church speaking cannot replace being and to be the people that God calls us to be right now, we must rely on prayer. That's why each and every Wednesday morning between all the twelfth of November, the fourth, and that's the morning after the twenty twenty election the Colson center will be hosting a national prayer time the a Webinar we want you to join US each and every week to pray first and foremost for God's mercy. But that he would revive his church that he would bring about a renewal of righteousness that he would empower us to courageously offer protection for the most vulnerable to champion reconciliation across our deepest divides and that he would. Allow us to be instruments in the sustaining of religious freedom and the recovery of the family in our nation. Each prayer time will feature a devotional challenge and a prayer by Christian leaders such as Oz Ganesh Johnny Eric's Totta focus on the family President Jim Daly Woodside Bible Pastor Chris Brooks and watermark pastor Todd Wagner as well as at Stecher from the Billy Graham Center and the Heritage Foundation President Keiko James Now due to the limited capacity of zoom there will be limited live spots each week available to everyone who registers However, each weeks recording will be sent to anyone who registers so come to breakpoint dot org for more details and Fiji's Paul tells us that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood but against the rulers, the authorities, the cosmic powers over this present darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places when people see us their enemies, it's difficult to remember that they aren't our enemies. So what we need to do as Paul Instructs this put on the former of God Faith Truth Righteousness Peace Salvation the word of God. And he says praying at all times in the spirit with all prayer and supplication keeping alert with all perseverance making supplication for all the Saints, and the Book of acts the earliest church activity we read off is prayer thousands of people from completely different backgrounds came together in one mind one art in prayer with one accord. That's what acts chapter one, verse fourteen and Chapter Two versus forty. Two seven says than what happened with the Holy Spirit moved in the world was never the same in fact, every spiritual revolution in history. With some kind of unified persevering prayer the very first outpouring of the holy. Spirit. In acts to the great awakenings, the businessman's revival and the Welsh revival story after story, you read the same thing people prayed God's spirit moved on the other hand every Christian history who was able to persevere and righteousness. Temptation or persecution without seeing revival in their lifetime they also did that through prayer. Our prayer of course cannot force God's hand but are only way forward is to seek his will together are purse can't control God. But we can invite him to change our hearts and minds including our own gods always working in our lives whether we realize it or not. But something powerful and world changing happens when people pray for God's spirit to move. The, Great Jonathan Edwards urged his fellow pastors to quote be much in prayer and fasting both in secret and with one another it is God's will. He said that the prayers of his saints shall be great and the principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ's kingdom in the world. When God has something to accomplish for his church, it is with his will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayer of his people Paul even tells us to pray for all things at all times for sesame chapter five specifically for our leaders both spiritual and secular as what the
5 Minutes in Church History
Isaac Newton
"On this episode five minutes in Church history. Let's talk about a scientist Sir. Isaac Newton. He was born in sixteen forty three. He died in seventeen twenty seven he was actually born in the exact same year of the death of Galileo. He was born in originally humble circumstances. His father died three months before he was born in sixteen sixty one he went off to Cambridge. He had a grasp of Latin and a very curious mind. He would pass the time sketching clocks and windmills and other kinds of gadgets. Once he got to Cambridge he studied astronomy. This was the era of Copernicus and Kepler and of course he studied the classic Philosophers Aristotle and Plato. He kept his notebooks and in one of them. He wrote amicus Plato. Amicus Aristotle's Maga's Amici Veritas. Plato is my friend. Aristotle is my friend. Truth is my best friend. And he also let Cambridge embarked on studying mathematics. In fact he would come to the way in this field he is credited for inventing the study of Calculus as he called it the calculus of infant hassles and it was also while he was at Cambridge that he studied the motion of the moon and the planets and he recognized this force. That was acting on these planets orbit. He was discovering what would come to be called the law of gravity. He would go on to publish. His books is famous book in Seventeen. O four the book called optics and in There. He puts forth his theory of colors. A very interesting a young student in the colonies at the College of Connecticut. We know it as Yale. University would get a hold of Isaac Newton's book optics and he devoured it. This of course is Jonathan Edwards. And he wrote his own little scientific paper he called of light rays and this was all from. Reading Isaac Newton and Edwards draws this corollary from just being amazed at how the actual physical human eye processes light rays. This is what Edwards had to write hence the infinite art that was exercised in the formation of the eye that has given it such an exquisite sense that it should perceive the touch of those few rays of the least fixed stars which enter the eye which all put together won't amount to the million million million million million to part of the least moat of such an exquisite sense that it should distinctly perceive an image upon the retina that it is not above the eighty million millionth part of an inch wide. That has so nicely polished the retina that it should receive so small a picture upon it when the least pro Tuba Rinse or an evenness would utterly destroy and confound it here's Edwards amazed at the human eye but far more amazed at the God who created the human eye and the God who created the universe and it was Isaac Newton who unlocked this for Edwards and it was Isaac Newton who unlocked this for so many other people as Alexander Pope. The poet has it that nature and nature's laws lay hidden by night. God said let Newton be and then there was light Newton as the father of modern science. Believed that no way would science give us less room for God or somehow make less space for God and understanding of him? In fact it was the exact opposite for Isaac Newton. The more he studied God's universe the more he was led to acknowledge and worship God. Newton once said gravity may very well explained the motion of the planets for the can't explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and God knows all that is or all that can be known. That's the Great Isaac Newton
The Past and the Curious
The Teddy Bear!
"Early in the year of Nineteen O one. The manager of the Bronx Zoo in New York got a very unusual letter. The typewritten note was dated January. Second Gentleman I have a small named Jonathan Edwards and we find we do not have the accommodations to keep him so I should like to present him to the Bronx Zoological Gardens. Can you send someone out here to tend to his shipment then written by hand next to this is a further question? I think it says or shall I ship him myself but it's hard to read the messy scribbled handwriting in any case the letter is signed yours. Truly t roosevelt. Now as you might have guessed that T- Roosevelt is Theodore Roosevelt. A man who would soon unexpectedly find himself as the president of the United States. But that probably wasn't the first thing that jumped out to William Hornets manager of the Bronx Zoo. His thoughts were probably something like bear a bear a pet bear in New York. Of course you don't have any accommodations to keep them. Who Does he's a bear and wait. Did you say his name is Jonathan Edwards? Were kind of name. Is that for a bear name. A bear poo or growly or berry made even snuggles. If he's got the right personality but Jonathan Edwards Kinda Weirdo. Oh right teddy. Roosevelt Theodore you see Theodore. Roosevelt had just finished his duty. As governor of New York State that term ended on December thirty first and on that upcoming March fourth he would be sworn in as vice president of the United States in the time between governing and vice president and it seems teddy him. The idol was trying to take care of some personal matters which included but were not limited to a live bear rather than ask the million questions that were surely. On the zookeepers. Mind William Hornets. Just said yes. It was Teddy Roosevelt after all right right but Hornets did ask where on earth the bear came from soon to be vice president. Roosevelt had already moved on to other matters because his reply was short. And Sweet. My dear Mr Hornets. The back came from West Virginia. Very Truly Theodore Roosevelt's. Let's not a lot of information from a man who could be pretty verbose that means he talked a lot and he also wrote a lot dude wrote thirty five books in his lifetime over one hundred and fifty thousand letters to people so you'd think he could have offered a bit more explanation as to what he was doing with a bear at his house a few months prior he did elaborate a bit more in one of those one hundred and fifty thousand letters that he wrote to a friend. He told his pal that some supporters in West Virginia had presented the bear to him as a gift. And well. You can't say no to a gift especially a Harry. One was sharp teeth honestly. A pet bear wasn't entirely off the Charts the Roosevelt while Jonathan Edwards. The bear would eventually go to live in the Bronx Zoo. It might not have felt that much different. From the Roosevelt home to the creature he would have been more than us to being surrounded by a mess of animals. And I'm not talking about the six Roosevelt kids running around the home. I'm talking about all of their pets. The list of Roosevelt family pets goes on and on there was a lizard named bill and a pig named MoD a badger named Josefa and a blue macaw named Eli Gail Barron. Sprinkle was a hen and Peter was of course a rabbit. There are also a whole bunch of Guinea pigs with names. That don't disappoint. They were called Admiral. Dewey Dr Johnson Bishop Tone Fighting Bob Evans and Father O'Grady. As if that weren't enough there was also a one. Legged Rooster Hyena a pony and my favorite a Green Garter. Snake named Emily Spinach. As you can see the Roosevelt's took their pets and their pet names quite seriously. Animal hijinks and Shenanigans were very common among the six Roosevelt kids once when brother. Archie was sick in bed. His siblings hatched a scheme to cheer him up. They lead their pony up the stairs to his room to surprise him which it certainly did but the pony was more excited to see his reflection in a bedroom mirror so much so that he would not leave and then there was the time that Quinton burst into his father's office at the time. Teddy Theodore Right. Sorry Theodore was in the middle of an important closed-door meeting with senators and other politicians closed doors. Don't always mean much to a kid with animals in his pockets and Quinton didn't think twice about interrupting the meeting. The men kindly obliged pause the meeting while the boy threw his arms around his beloved father who Shirley laughed proudly and started to shoot the boy away but Quinton had a surprise. The boy pulled four snakes out of his pocket and place them on the table in the middle of the room. Apparently these men did not have a similar menagerie of animals in their own households because these powerful yet easily frightened men jumped up like popcorn scrambled to the edge of the room. Faster than Greece geese it was surely a funny moment for the Roosevelt's so as we've said Jonathan Edwards would live his days in the Bronx Zoo but he wasn't the only fateful bear in Teddy's life. Okay he wasn't the only fateful bear in Theodore's life no there was another. Roosevelt was sworn in as vice president and March of nineteen o one and six months later in September. He was president of the United States. It wasn't supposed to happen that way. But President William McKinley was assassinated while attending the world's bear in Buffalo New York. Theodore Roosevelt took his place and made history in many ways. Theatre was an extremely energetic. Man Some say he had a photographic memory because he could do things like perfectly recite poems that he had read and not seen again for decades. He read books nearly every day. Some people saw him read two or three pages a minute. He was very proud of his speed reading skills but it wasn't just learning that he engaged in Roosevelt loved the outdoors. In fact as a president he set aside two hundred thirty million acres of land to protect and save so that Americans for many generations could enjoy these forests parks and Animal Sanctuaries Theodore love to spend time in nature himself. He loved to horseback ride and he was also an avid hunter in November of Nineteen. O Two just after his first full year as president. He made a hunting trip to Mississippi on invitation. From the governor of the state there were several other people in the party and before long the president was the only one who had not shot a bear. This was embarrassing for the governor. How could they leave? Teddy out right right right with the feodor so anyway. In an effort to guarantee success for the president's bear hunting trip the guides devised an unfortunate and unkind plan that involved tying a bear to a tree for Roosevelt to shoot when he discovered the creature in such a state. Roosevelt was disgusted and refuse to shoot. What could have been forgotten moment soon? Captured the American imagination and then gave birth to one of the most common items found in kids rooms. All around the world still today. A cartoonist was inspired by the story and sketched an image of Roosevelt refusing to shoot the bear the cartoon ran in the Washington Post which was a major newspaper in it immediately connected Roosevelt to bears in the minds of Americans probably most of whom never even realized that he had a pet bear in New York for a while. One American who saw this was a candy shop owner from Brooklyn New York named Morris Victim. It began with two soft cuddly stuffed toy bears that he and his wife Rose had made. He stuck those bears in the window of his candy shop and called them Teddy bears before long he spent all of his time making those and even started a toy company that would live on for decades. So whether you knew it or not. That teddy bear in your bedroom is named after a president who didn't even like being called Teddy.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Witches & Saints: Mary Baker Eddy
"Parents were devout congregation. List's heavily influenced by Puritan Ideals Mary suffered from serious illness and look to religion to understand her situation she was especially influenced by the Minister Jonathan Edwards who emphasized more experiential enjoy full religious life Mary dealt with more tragedy in her early twenties when in short order her favorite brother died her new husband died after only six months of marriage and then in eighteen forty nine and she lost another fiance and her beloved mother within weeks Mary eventually married a man named Daniel Patterson in eighteen fifty three Oh the marriage broke down quickly and three years later her husband and father conspired to separate her from her twelve year old son who was a product of her first marriage Mary wouldn't see her son again for twenty five years the separation plunged Mary into a deep depression all the tragedy that she experienced insured her continued interest in religion and religious reform like many other young people love her time. Mary rebelled against the stark conception of God helped by her father's calvinism and instead gravitated toward the idea of a more benign loving God preached by Liberal Christian Movements Still Mary struggled to reconcile God of loving kindness with the misery and pain when she experienced herself and saw in the world around her in the eighteen fifties Mary's quest for answers took an unusual turn she lost trust and traditional forms of medicine and became enthralled by homeopathic and other forms of suggestive medicine she came to believe that the houses of disease were not found in the human body but in the mind disease was not God's will but man's own conception condition the Lynn reporter while reading a Gospel Account of healing during her recovery Mary had a strong religious experience that brought on her immediate recovery medicine neurosurgery could beach was the falling apple that led me to the discovery of how to be well myself and how to make others so even to the homeopath physician who attended me I could not then explain the motives of my relief I can only assure him that the divine spirit had wrought the miracle a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with divine law whether he believed that Mary was miraculously healed or not there's no question that she believed she had made a major spiritual and theological discovery the subsequent nine years Mary studied upshur and worked on expanding your ideas into a full doctrine in eighteen seventy five Mary laid out the basic tenets of her church and her most important work side First Church of Christ scientist in Lynn Massachusetts her stated goal was to reinstate primitive Christianity and it's lost element of healing the church moved to Boston eighteen eighty two and from there began to impact American religious life for many the Church of Christ scientists I offered an attractive alternative to the dominant Conservative and Liberal Christian movements at the day the eighties were incredibly busy for Mary in eighteen eighty one Mary founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College where she personally taught her ideas to hundreds of students at the same time the Christian Science Church services which attracted a growing number of disaffected Protestants but Mary success came with a price her growing which published a book of bylaws called the Manual of the Mother Church Mary died in nineteen ten the controversy surrounding her life particularly when it comes to the treatment of minors tune in tomorrow for
5 Minutes in Church History
An Introduction to the Life of Samuel Davies
"On this episode. I'm on location in Virginia and we're here to talk about the missionary or possible to Virginia's he was known Samuel Davies. Samuel Davies was born on November the third seventeen twenty three three as a young man. He was educated at Blair's log college. This is Samuel Blair. This is in Chester County Pennsylvania Blair's log college. It was modeled after the original log college of the tenants over in the shamanic Pennsylvania that of course became Princeton University but this is Blair's log college. When he was finished with his education he was ordained as a minister in seventeen forty seven at the age of twenty four and the presbytery sent him to Hanover County Virginia George Whitfield had gone through Hanover county in seventeen forty five and so are they sent along Samuel Davies to help some of those seeds that had been sown grow. The ten years that Samuel Davies was there from seventeen seventeen forty-seven through the end of seventeen fifty seven those years are known as the years of the Hanover revivals was during that time that Davies I started seven churches and he pastored those seven churches he taught many not only of the whites here in Virginia but also African Americans some slaves freed African Americans he taught Indians he wanted to establish a college log college like he had been trained at but he just wasn't able to all of those seven churches so we had a college on wheels he would carry along in his wagon books and he would just give out books to various students young men who showed promise in the church to be trained as he would go from church to church well in seventeen. I'm fifty three for two years. He took a hiatus from his ministry here in Virginia and joined Gilbert tenant to go to England on a fundraising tour for for the College of New Jersey which would come to be called Princeton. It was a very successful fundraising tour and they were able to raise enough money to build Nassau Hall aw there on the campus of Princeton and when it was built it was the largest building an all of the American colonies and Samuel Davies helped raise the money seventeen fifty nine year before the death of Jonathan Edwards as president of Princeton the trustees of Princeton invite Samuel Davies to come and be the president. He arrives sometime in the fall of seventeen fifty nine. He serves there for about eighteen months and he dies in seventeen eighteen sixty one of consumption as we look at Samuel Davies Life. We can see five things that marked his life. I was his oratory. Sorry he was quite a speaker. Patrick Henry would come in here. Samuel Davies preaches often as he could because he was just so impressed by his rhetorical skill skill and how he could just hold an audience and how he could be so persuasive with the spoken word. Secondly is religious liberty. This was an Anglican colony. He was a dissenter he was illegal here in Virginia and he constantly had to petition for his presence in for or these churches that he had planted to be established he would argue in the capital at Williamsburg based on the sixteen eighty nine act of tolerate that there should be religious freedom here in the colonies. Thomas Jefferson used his arguments to later argue for religious liberty. He was committed education should not only training students here as he pastored these churches but also as president of Princeton. He was a poet he wrote many poems. He wrote a hymn who who is a pardoning. God like the or who has grace so rich and free and finally he was a preacher he preached for the conversion and the salvation of men well that is Samuel Davies the apostle to Virginia born on November third seventeen twenty three died died on February four seventeen sixty one and I'm Steve Nichols. Thanks for listening to