The Story of the First Great Awakening

An Eyewitness Account

De: Jonathan Edwards

Narrado por: Alan Crookham

When the Holy Spirit first poured out in the 1730s and 1740s, Jonathan Edwards was at the forefront. The United States had not yet declared independence from England, and was an ever-changing landscape of immigrants from all over the world. These cultures brought an array of false idols, religions, witchcraft, and more. A spiritual war had begun in the nation as the devil attempted to undermine what God was doing in the land.

Thus, the people of God began to cry out for a move of the Holy Spirit, and a return to Scriptural purity. God answered in a way they never could have imagined.

While there are thousands of supernatural, miraculous stories during that time, one of the most well-known was that fateful Sunday when Jonathan Edwards preached the most famous sermon in American history, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

During that sermon, the congregation had a collective vision where they saw hell itself open up beneath them. They clambered onto the pews, scratched the church walls, and begged for Edwards to stop preaching as the flames of the pit leaped out at them.

From there the revival only blazed hotter. This volume contains Jonathan Edward’s own full, original testimony of the First Great Awakening. It gives us rare insights about the movement that few have ever heard before, as this book has largely been lost in the modern church. Contained here is also his powerful sermon, “Pressing into the Kingdom of God.”

May the Lord set you on fire for Him, and let us cry out together for another Great Awakening in our land!

©2024 Alan Crookham (P)2024 Alan Crookham