Here Am I
February 15, 2016
II Chronicles 7:14 “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin. I will heal their land.”
My friend, John Cunningham, Jr., an active member of Frazer, wrote this piece on Facebook, and I think it is a good word for us to ponder today: “Yale University 1789: Its students took pride in being sinners and infidels. Yale University 1795: Timothy Dwight becomes the President of Yale and fires all of its ungodly professors. He begins to carefully rebut the philosophical arguments the students had against Christianity, which they had taken from the philosophers of the French Revolution. Yale University 1802: In its chapel services Dwight preached the Bible in a scholarly manner and point by point rebutted the French Revolution’s philosophers.” This sparked a revival on the campus and led to about one-third of the student body becoming born again Christians. This was but one phase of what became known as America’s Second Great Awakening. America 2016: From no matter how low our society has sunk, God can always raise up men and women of God like Timothy Dwight and use them to bring our country back to Him. Why He might even raise us up to do it, if we make ourselves available.
– Dr. Tim Thompson, Senior Pastor
My friend, John Cunningham, Jr., an active member of Frazer, wrote this piece on Facebook, and I think it is a good word for us to ponder today: “Yale University 1789: Its students took pride in being sinners and infidels. Yale University 1795: Timothy Dwight becomes the President of Yale and fires all of its ungodly professors. He begins to carefully rebut the philosophical arguments the students had against Christianity, which they had taken from the philosophers of the French Revolution. Yale University 1802: In its chapel services Dwight preached the Bible in a scholarly manner and point by point rebutted the French Revolution’s philosophers.” This sparked a revival on the campus and led to about one-third of the student body becoming born again Christians. This was but one phase of what became known as America’s Second Great Awakening. America 2016: From no matter how low our society has sunk, God can always raise up men and women of God like Timothy Dwight and use them to bring our country back to Him. Why He might even raise us up to do it, if we make ourselves available.
– Dr. Tim Thompson, Senior Pastor