Adventures In God
As we were coming up one of the highways a Voice said, "Pull onto the left of the road and…
An archive of what God has done
Revival Again
Books, messages, photographs and firsthand history from the outpourings that shaped the church — gathered in one place, free to read and share.
“Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” Psalm 85:6
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Revival History
What happened, where, and who paid the price for it — told plainly, with sources.
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The Library
Books by Wesley, Heflin, Finney, Bounds and others — free to read online or download as PDF.
Why this archive exists
Revival is not a style of meeting and it is not a period of history. It is what happens when God draws near to a people who have gone hungry for Him, and it has happened again and again — in barns, in tents, in coal towns, in stone chapels, in a shoe-crate pulpit on a back street in Los Angeles.
Most of what was written and preached in those seasons is scattered, out of print, or slowly disappearing off the internet. This site gathers what can be gathered: books, sermons, photographs, first-hand accounts and testimonies, kept in one place and given away freely.
Read it as history if you like. But the reason every page here exists is simpler than that: what God did then, He is willing to do now.
O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk 3:2
He has done it before
A timeline of outpouring
Different centuries, different continents, the same God — and almost always the same beginning: somebody prayed until something broke.
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1734–1743
The First Great Awakening
New England & the American Colonies
Preaching on the holiness of God and the danger of a false conversion swept the colonies and reshaped American Christianity.
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1739–1791
The Methodist Revival Under John Wesley
England, Wales & Ireland
A heart strangely warmed in a London meeting became fifty years of field preaching that changed a nation.
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1801
The Cane Ridge Camp Meeting
Bourbon County, Kentucky
Thousands crossed the frontier by wagon for a communion service that lasted days and birthed the camp meeting.
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1904–1905
The Welsh Revival
Wales
A young coal miner asked God to bend him, and within a year roughly a hundred thousand people were converted.
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1906–1909
The Azusa Street Revival
Los Angeles, California
A former livery stable on Azusa Street became the seedbed of worldwide Pentecostalism.
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1949–1952
The Hebrides Revival
Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Two elderly sisters and a group of praying men in a barn saw God visit the villages of Lewis.
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1967–1975
The Jesus Movement
California & across America
A counterculture generation walked out of the drug scene and into the water for baptism.
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1995–2000
The Brownsville Revival
Pensacola, Florida
On Father's Day 1995 something fell on a Pensacola church, and for five years people queued in the heat to get in.
From the library
Books worth reading twice
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Sermons of George Whitefield
Fourthly, walking with God implies our making progress or advances in the divine life. Walking, in the very first idea…
Miscellaneous Writings — 67 pages, a selected-works sampler
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God……
A NARRATIVE OF THE SURPRISING WORK OF GOD
This work of God, as it was carried on, and the number of true saints multiplied, soon made a glorious…
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Messages from the meetings
Preaching that called people to repentance, and worship recorded while it was happening.