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- David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.
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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.
Apr 20, 2018 · Founder & Teacher, Desiring God. His life was short — 29 years, 5 months, and 19 days. And only eight of those years as a Christian. Only four as a missionary. And yet few lives have sent ripples so far and so wide as David Brainerd’s. Why has his life made the impact that it has?
History reveals a panoply of ‘radical’, or dare I say the word, ‘extreme’ men and women who took the things of God seriously. One of these was a young New England missionary called David Brainerd (1718-1747). One of Brainerd’s biographers, Vance Christie, states that, ‘On the whole, his radicalism was of a type worthy of emulation.’.
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David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) cite Brainerd as inspiration.
Jul 28, 2009 · The full title is An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New-Jersey, Who died at Northampton in New-England, Octob. 9th 1747. in the 30th ...
Jan 29, 2014 · David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians in the 1740's, lived only 29 years yet his life continues to impact Christians because of his lifestyle of prayer and fasting.
Oct 5, 2024 · David Brainerd was a Presbyterian missionary to the Seneca and Delaware Indians of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (1744–47). He gained posthumous fame through the publication of his diary by Jonathan Edwards, the Massachusetts religious philosopher.
