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Featuring interviews with nine different historians, professors, and pastors, this 57-minute documentary (available at http://churchworksmedia.com/) explores the most influential book on Christian...
Aug 18, 2015 · Featuring interviews with nine different historians, professors, and pastors, this 57-minute documentary (available at http://churchworksmedia.com/) explores the most influential book on Christian...
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- The Life of David Brainerd
Feb 28, 2019 · David Brainerd was an example of piety and devotion to many Christians. His Life was marked by a longing to spend time with God in prayer, by examination's a...
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Nov 26, 2018 · THE LIFE AND DIARY OF DAVID BRAINERD AS PREFACED BY JONATHAN EDWARDS.
- Childhood and Unspeakable Glory
- Yale College and Awakening
- Missionary to The American Indians
- Impact
Born on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1718, in Haddam, Connecticut, David was one of nine children born to Hezekiah and Dorothy Brainerd. The Brainerd family were descendants of a long line of men and women noteworthy for their religious zeal. It was said that David’s father, Hezekiah, was a man of “great personal dignity and self-restraint . . . and of...
In early September 1739, only two months after his conversion, Brainerd entered Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. During his first year, he contracted measles, which sent him home for several weeks. In his second year, he began to spit up blood, an early warning sign of tuberculosis. The disease would eventually take his life. He first experi...
Unable to complete his formal education, Brainerd sought other opportunities to fulfill his ministerial calling. After receiving a license to preach, he was approved for missionary work on November 25, 1742. He was sent to a small church on Long Island, which served as a doorway to the vast New England wilderness the following spring. From 1743 to ...
After his death, Edwards discovered Brainerd’s diaries and believed they would be of immense value to the broader Christian world. In 1749, with an introduction, Edwards published the journals as The Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Missionaries Henry Martyn, William Carey, and countless others have devoured Brainerd’s diaries as encourag...
Nov 19, 2018 · The Life of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards. Author Brady, Gary. Category Articles. Date November 19, 2018. David Brainerd was an 18th Century American missionary of Reformed beliefs. We say American but Brainerd lived before the Declaration of Independence and so, like his contemporaries, thought of himself chiefly as an Englishman.
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Mar 2, 2010 · Mark Rogers writes about missionary David Brainerd and shares some observations and applications that we can take away from his life and ministry.
