Revival Preaching: Twelve Lessons from Jonathan Edwards

by Ernest Eugene Klassen

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2021

Overview

As part of his passion to bring glory to God, Ernie Klassen is particularly interested in the revival of God s people and the awakening of the lost. He believes strongly that God-honoring, Christ-exalting, and Spirit-empowered preaching plays a critical role in revival and awakening. No one models this dynamic better than Jonathan Edwards. He was a pastor who was a protagonist of the First Great Awakening. He thought deeply and critically about religious movements, and his reflections and sermons provide valuable “fodder” for reflection. Revival Preaching extracts the most important lessons of Edwards’s writings and sermons for preaching in today’s world.

Key Features

• Extracts the most important lessons for preaching in today’s world.
• Inspires to be fearless in your preaching and passionate in your longing for revival.
• Challenges to pray for revival.

Praise for the Print Edition

I am very grateful to Klassen and his work on revival preaching. It is a call to bold faith and bold proclamation. Using the backdrop of Jonathan Edwards’s powerful preaching ministry, we are invited into a rich theological journey flavored with real-life experiences... This is a must-read for preachers at any stage. This book will inspire you to be fearless in your preaching and passionate in your longing for revival.

—David Hearn, President of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada

Looking at the intersection of revival, preaching, and Edwards, Klassen provides ‘lessons’ that religious leaders can take from Edwards’s experiences and writings as a soul counselor and a ‘scientist’ of conversion... There is much wisdom to be had from his reflections on the nature of conversion, revival, and spirituality, gained from practical experience as a local pastor.

—Kenneth P. Minkema, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University

I am so pleased to commend this book to my brothers and sisters in the English-speaking world. Those of us who live in the West stand in great need of God.... We need revival and what Jonathan Edwards called ‘regeneration.’ The book you hold in your hands is full of advice from Edwards himself on earnest preaching for revival.... May God stir your hearts and elevate your minds as you read, redirecting your desires and filling your life with divine things—the only things that really satisfy.

—Doug Sweeney, Second Dean of Beeson Divinity School and world-renowned scholar of Jonathan Edwards

Product Details

• Title: Revival Preaching: Twelve Lessons from Jonathan Edwards
• Author: Ernest Eugene Klassen
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 282
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781666711479, 1666711470
• Resource ID: LLS:RVVLPRCHNGDWRDS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-25T22:55:08Z

About Ernest Eugene Klassen

Ernest Eugene Klassen is a career missionary with The Alliance Canada (Christian and Missionary Alliance) having served as a pastor and educator in Peru (twenty-two years), Mexico (two years), Canada (ten years) and Spain (six years). Most recently he served at Ambrose University and Seminary (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). He has written two works on Edwards in Spanish. He has been married for forty-five years to the love of his life, Marilyn.