Revived Thoughts

In the heart of China in the middle of the 19th century if you did not go to Church on Sunday, you would be executed. Peasants were learning the Ten Commandments and being led by a man who destroyed every Buddhist and Confucian temple he could find. His goal was to create a "Heavenly Kingdom" for Christians in China, and millions came under his control.

Some have said it is the second bloodiest event in human history, behind World War 2. The Taiping Rebellion is a story hardly anyone knows in the West.

Learn the story of Hong Xiuquan, and the Rebellion he caused that changed the world. Part 2 is currently available only to our Patreon.

Cotton Mather is one of New England's most famous colonial ministers. In this episode he is counseling and working directly with four pirates who are condemned to die. This is sermon he gives as they are before the executioners block. Hear the story of the pirates and their responses to Mather's counsel!

Special thanks to Pastor Ed Backell for reading this sermon. Pastor Ed Backell is a Washington state native, and has taught for 30+ years in churches in Oregon, Washington and Nebraska, currently in Warden, WA. He has been serving Warden Community Church since May, 2010

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Henry Whipple is a little known minister to Minnesota at a time when it was rural wilderness. Through blizzards and tough terrain, he helped bring the Gospel to the Dakota and the men living on the frontier.

Special thanks to Jason Stanley for reading this sermon.

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Author of pilgrim's progress, listen to what John Bunyan thinks about how we should live life from day to day.

Huge thanks to Timothy Fierens for reading todays sermon. You can see his youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@oldtimepreaching

John Wesley is one of the main voices of the Great Awakening. Listen to some of the amazing stories from his life and his sermon, "Justification by Faith."

Special thanks to Guthrie Musser for reading this episode of Revived Thoughts.

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Robert Breckenridge was a famous pastor who stood against slavery in the early 19th century. He was also the grandfather of a famous theologian we have featured on the show multiple times.

Special thanks to Nathaniel Owen for reading this episode of Revived Thoughts.

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Joseph Lathrop was a minister in the late 18th century and early 19th century. During his time as a minister there was a solar eclipse and he gives his response to it.

Special thanks to Adam Parker of the Bold Apologia Podcast for reading this sermon.

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Joel and Troy discuss the fact that Revived Thoughts is officially five years.

What have we learned? Plans for the future? What annoys Joel and Troy about each other?

We answer these questions and more!

Troy goes through the French Revolution and tells the often never discussed upon religious side of the French Revolution. The story of why they hated the church, what they did to the church, and how they replaced the church is one worth knowing today.