Old Wives' Tales, Twenty-first century lessons from the lives of eighteenth century women Mark Dever “Preaching has been the central

“Preaching has been the central means of grace for churches that look to the Reformation as God’s greatest work of ecclesial renewal and recovery in the past millennium

we must note that Whitefield was a man whose extraordinary evangelistic fervor was marked by remarkable piety and deep theology

He had a gift for speaking the language of the man-in-the street and presenting Christian truth in a way that captured the imagination

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PAUL HELM is a teaching fellow at Regent College

Old Wives' Tales, Twenty-first century lessons from the lives of eighteenth century women Mark Dever “Preaching has been the centralIn the eighteenth century God used men such as John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards to bring spiritual revival to both Britain and America but what about the women in their lives? What was it like to live and work with such dynamic and demanding men? While looking through the lens of history, Clare HeathWhyte draws out lessons for today, via the honest portraits of these seven unique women. From godliness to bitterness,