Monthly Archives: April 2025

Revival in America

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   Tent meetings. The sinner’s prayer. “Just As I Am.” The altar call. All-night prayer sessions. So many aspects of… Read more »

Serving the Least, the Last, and the Lost

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   By all accounts, William Wilberforce wasn’t much to look at. He had been a small, sickly child, and lacked… Read more »

Going Global

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   “If God wants to save the heathen, he will do so, without your help or mine.” Those were the… Read more »

The French Revolution

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   It was an astonishing sacrilege. On November 10, 1793, the most famous church in France, the Cathedral of Notre… Read more »

The Great Awakening

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   Every schoolchild learns about the Spirit of 1776 – the monumental social and political upheaval that led to the birth… Read more »

The Wesleyan Revolution

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   When he was five years old, John Wesley had a close call. Sometime before midnight on February 9, 1709,… Read more »

The Catholic Comeback

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn.   What do Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Travolta, and Tom Brady have in common? They all had… Read more »