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America's Evangelical Founding Father: A Conversation about George Whitefield with Historian Thomas Kidd

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Importance of the Holy Spirit in Revival

Whitfield believed that his decision to seek ordination as an Anglican minister was confirmed by a very specific revelatory dream. He said he had the dream about a meeting with a bishop who would give him a gift of five gold coins. But it's for a lot of evangelicals today would seem a little exotic. The move of God in the Great Awakening is a world of wonders, unlike anything we've ever been part of. And they're open to the work of the Holy Spirit in ways that they had never been before in their life.

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