Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We are actually

recording at the site of the Ligonier National Conference 2018 and our theme

this year for the Lig International Conference is

awakening. Well this subject of awakening is one that has a rich history

in the Christian Church and especially a rich history in terms of American church.

And one of those key moments in American church history was the Great Awakening.

We know this event, 1740 to 1742.

But I want to talk about some of the moments that led up to that and one

moment in particular just before the Great Awakening there was a smaller

awakening the Great Awakening was a Great Awakening because it was all over the American

colonies and it was transatlantic and it was quite a phenomenon. But before it in the 1735, 1736, there was a revival in the Connecticut River Valley.

Of course, this is the home to Jonathan Edwards, and Jonathan Edwards had something to do with this Connecticut River Valley revival.

It was his sermons, I think, that in many ways laid the groundwork for this revival of the Connecticut River and then it was those

revivals that may very well have been part of the tender that was used then in the

flames of the Great Awakening.

Well, in 1731, Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon.

It was actually his first sermon to get published,

God glorified in man's dependence.

Well, another sermon stresses that.

This is a sermon from 1734, it's simply entitled

A Divine and Supernatural Light.

Well, actually, that's the short title. a divine and supernatural light.

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