Essay On Wayman

Ed Stetzer, PH.D., leads LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources and LifeWay’s Missiologist in Residence. He also serves as Director of Research and Missiologist-In-Residence for the North American mission Board. He is the author of sixteen books, and is well sought after as a conference and seminar speaker nationally. Stetzer currently serves as Visiting Professor of Research and Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Visiting Research Professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Stetzer education includes a bachelor’s degree at Shorter University, two master’s degrees from Liberty Theological Seminary and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and two doctorates a doctor of Ministry from Samford

Timothy Anglin faced the loss of his young wife while serving as a minister at church in San Diego, California. Overnight he became a single parent and a grieving widow. In this real, honest, and heartfelt book,

In the 1800s a Market Revolution began, changing the way in which America operated and in the midst of all that was a Second Great Awakening, causing people to once again, question their religious beliefs and practices. Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz tell the story of Robert Matthews, or the Prophet Matthias and his followers. Matthias had an unconventional childhood, he became an orphan at a young age and was raised by church elders. He worked under one of the elders to learn the carpenter’s craft. He easily found work but had trouble keeping it because he was always preaching at his fellow workers about their sinful ways. Matthias was eager to make good but continually fell into misfortunes, “which led him on a prolonged and erratic religious journey” (49). The Kingdom of Matthias gained and lost members, had changes in beliefs, and was full of ever changing marriages. Although looking back on it now, Matthias’s messages and beliefs seem almost laughable, but at they time his followers found his message, ministry, and lifestyle very compelling.

In Edith Wharton’s The Other Two, Waythorn, a successful businessman, marries Alice Haskett, a cosmopolitan woman who has married twice before. Having just married Alice, Waythorn initially is ecstatic and excited about the prospect of creating a new, personal relationship with Alice, a woman he feels he understands and knows well. As the story progresses, Waythorn starts to realize that his relationship with Alice is not as clearly defined as he once thought, a revelation largely recognized because of Alice’s two ex-husbands: Varrick and Haskett. Hawthorne, who initially questioned their potentially disruptive role in Alice and his marriage, negates all of the initial doubts he had relating to them and their visits to his residence. However,

A spiritual revival broke out in his parish. There were six sudden conversations in December. By spring, there were at least thirty a week.

WHEREAS, Mother Marilyn C. Jackson professed her hope in Christ by yielding to God’s image shining through her, in every area of her life extending God’s love to those God allowed to cross her life’s path with her infectious and welcoming smile.

After his first graduation, Edwards went on to continue his studies in theology and prepare for a life in ministry. Equally as successful with Edwards’s educational climb was his anointment in his pastoral call. Though he often questioned the sovereignty doctrine of God from an early age, his search for meaning and truth came about during his personal testimony of conversion when, at the age of seventeen he read 1 Timothy 1:17. It was then when he finally connected with the one and only true God that his life changed for the duration. It was this pivotal moment that marked his conversion and led to what would become the fervent, heart-felt preaching style that characterized his sermons and brought conviction to the hearts of the parishioners who heard him.

Currently, the future of his congregation members’ lives is very grim: death in eternal flames, powerless to escape, all due to the wrath and whim of God. However, he informs his audience that all across the colonies Christ is accepting all repentant applicants into Heaven. Once they convert, he promises that his pitiful audience will rejoice, sing, and revel in God’s glory, shed of the burden of eternal damnation.

Patricia Bath is an African American woman who was called to” make the blind see”, a gift and anointing that could only be imparted by God himself. Patricia at a young age had an interest in science. Her mother who took notice of her interest and purchased a chemistry set for her and reinforced the pursuit of education. Her father, who was a newspaper columnist, taught Bath about the importance of exploring the world and new cultures. While developing and obtaining knowledge her craft and her academic career led her to meet professional people and obtain victories that “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (I Corinthians 2:9).

The author Langston Hughes reminisces about when his Aunt took him to church when he was thirteen years old; ‘Every night for weeks there had been much preaching, singing praying, shouting, and some very hard sinners had been brought to Jesus’(1059). At the end of revival the children were asked to approach the ‘mourners’ bench ‘To be saved!’ Langston’s Aunt told him about how when you were saved ‘something happened to you inside.’ (1059) So Mr. Hughes went to the bench with the fellow children in the church, the preacher preached, hymns were sung they keep saying ‘wont’ you come, Young lambs to Jesus?’ One by one the children rose to Jesus. Leaving Langston Hughes and another boy Westley; the boy Westley got tired of sitting on the bench he stood up to be saved. Langston Hughes sat there waiting for Jesus he too grew tired of sitting on the bench and he figured that Jesus didn’t smite Westley for lying; so he stood up.

Chrisleine Temple is an eighteen-year-old student at Williams College from Sierra Leone. Before coming to Williamstown, she participated in Pentecostal services with her family every Sunday morning “unless on her death bed” and attended a Jesuit preparatory school. Asked about the presence of a God in her life, she told this story:

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His father, a farmer, and mother had seven children, and the family lived a life of poverty. The family was devoted Christians who regularly attended church. Freeman remembers feeling the presence of God and knew that he heard God speak to him. At an early age, he knew he was called to preach the Gospel. At age eight, the Lord spoke to him through a vision of a fireball coming from Heaven. He knew he would be called by the Lord to pray for healings after his mother received a miraculous healing. She was dying but was instantly healed when the church rallied around her.

A man name George and his wife Angie Marino have been struggling with their finances for quite some time. They would try to find ways to make ends meet and it became so overwhelming for them. Angie lost her job with their second child and became a stay at home mom; her husband picked up a second job to make up for the lost income. One day the married couple heard God speaking to them about a solution to their problem. They came to a conclusion that they need to give more. They had cut back on other expenses and made giving a priority. Month after month they begin to increase their giving to those in need and to the up building of Gods’ Kingdom. One evening after work George went to his room and prayed for some relief, because they were

One hot summer day while walking in a small park in Minnesota, I came across a tiny stream running out of the bank of a hill. It was no wider than my foot. As I stirred up the sand from the stream bed with my toes, the thought ran through my head as to how far that grain of sand would travel if it never settled. What a surprise to come around the bend and see the answer to my question carved into an ornate wooden sign :”You are standing at the headwater of the mighty Mississippi River.” The potential distance that tiny grain of sand could travel was unfathomable. Jesus also said on one occasion, “If you have faith the size of a grain of mustard seed, you can move a mountain.” (Matt. 17:20ff) In my years, I have witnessed how a word of encouragement backed by simple actions of love and affirmation can stir up a chain of events spurred on by God’s blessing.