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The Life of David Brainerd: The Documentary - Trailer. 14K views 8 years ago. Featuring interviews with nine different historians, professors, and pastors, this 57-minute documentary...
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
Jun 19, 2024 · Filmed at historical locations throughout the northeastern U.S., David Brainerd: Missionary to the American Indians tells the story of the visionary eighteenth-century missionary whose...
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Jun 19, 2007 · The life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians : chiefly taken from his own diary and other private writings.
- Tremendous Impact
- Constant Struggles
- Lifestyle of Prayer and Fasting
- Ten Diary Entries on Fasting and Prayer
Of Brainerd’s twenty-nine years on this earth, he lived only eight of them as a believer and only four as a missionary. Yet his life has impacted people through the centuries to the present day—people including such spiritual greats as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, William Carey, Robert M’Cheyne, David Livingston, Andrew Murray and Jim Elliot. Jon...
Brainerd struggled with chronic sickness, depression, and loneliness—and as stated, he battled harsh living conditions as a missionary. His life is an undeniable reminder that God uses even the weakest saint upon his knees—the one who trusts in God alone and puts no confidence in the arm of the flesh. It doesn’t matter how sick, how discouraged, ho...
Brainerd was diligent in prayer and fasting. He wrote of spending whole days in prayer. For him, fasting was a lifestyle, as you’ll see in the excerpts below. When Brainerd was dying in Jonathan Edwards’s house, he urged young ministers who came to see him to engage in frequent days of private prayer and fasting because of how useful it was. Jonath...
“Monday, April 19. I set apart this day for fasting, and prayer to God for his grace; especially to prepare me for the work of the ministry, to give me divine aid and direction in my preparations for that great work, and in his own time to send me into his harvest. Accordingly, in the morning, I endeavoured to plead for the divine presence for the ...
The Life and Ministry of David Brainerd. by Ed Reese (1928-2015). Used with permission. Born: April 20, 1718 Haddam, Conn. Died: October 9, 1747 Northampton, Mass. Life Span: 29 years, 5 months, 19 days.
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Oct 24, 2022 · Though a short life, David Brainerd stands in the pantheon of believers mightily used by God. In 1742, fueled by revival zeal, Brainerd was expelled from Yale for his remark that a tutor in the college had no more grace than a chair.
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