Michael A.G. Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently delivered a series of messages on “Prayer and Revival” at Immanuel Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., during their first ever Immanuel Network Conference. Links to the talks are included here: Eighteenth-Century English Baptists Sweet Sensibility: Andrew Fuller’s Defense of Religious Affections [...]

By Timothy Raymond – With the recent resurgence in confessional Protestant Christianity among younger people (in which I include myself), there’s been a corresponding rediscovery of the phenomenon of revival.  And by revival I’m not talking about that annual week of summer tent meetings led by itinerate evangelist Bro. Daryl.  Defined theologically, revival refers to [...]

By Nathan A. Finn Most evangelical Christians are in favor of revival. This is in part because of the many ways evangelicals in the English-speaking world have been shaped (for better and worse) by the history and theology of spiritual awakenings. Nevertheless, despite a generally pro-revival posture, it seems to me that evangelicals don’t agree [...]