September 7: Rev. John Rowland
Church Doors Were Shut and Barns Were Opened Regrettably is did not take long for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to suffer dissention and schism. Its first Presbytery was…
September 15: The First Great Awakening
It was on this day, September 15, in 1748, that a petition was brought before the Presbytery of Boston, seek to organize a church in Newburyport, Massachusetts, "after the manner…
October 29: Rev. Alexander McDowell
This Day in Presbyterian History: A Pastor in a Period of Deep Anxiety Readers of this historical devotional may remember that there was a schism in American Presbyterianism in 1741 between what…
September 30: George Whitefield
This Day in Presbyterian History: There is None to Replace Him It was so thought by John Wesley, co-founder of Methodism. The person Wesley referred to in the quotation of…
August 30: Rev. Samuel Occom
This Day in Presbyterian History: A Unique Product of the Great Awakening In these devotionals before, we have written several times on the ministry of David Brainerd to the native Americans…