These are the voices we read on Voices of Awakening. Each one lived for revival. Click a name to see every post from that author.
Charles G. Finney (1792–1875)
American lawyer turned evangelist, converted in 1821 in Adams, New York. He led revivals across New York and the Northeast, most famously at Rochester in 1830–31, and his Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835) became a handbook for revival. He later served as professor and president of Oberlin College.
E.M. Bounds (1835–1913)
Edward McKendree Bounds was a Methodist Episcopal Church, South minister from Missouri who served as a Confederate chaplain during the Civil War. He spent his later years in Washington, Georgia, rising early to pray for hours. Power Through Prayer and most of his other books on prayer were published in the years around and after his death.
Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813–1843)
Scottish minister of St Peter’s Church, Dundee, from 1836. He traveled to Palestine in 1839 on a mission of inquiry to the Jews, and revival broke out in his congregation while he was away. He died of typhus at 29. His friend Andrew Bonar published his Memoir and Remains in 1844.
John Wesley (1703–1791)
Anglican priest and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement. After his heart was “strangely warmed” at Aldersgate Street in London on May 24, 1738, he traveled about 250,000 miles on horseback and preached some 40,000 sermons across Britain and Ireland.
George Whitefield (1714–1770)
English Anglican evangelist and early Methodist leader. Beginning with the Kingswood colliers in 1739, he preached in the open air to crowds in the thousands, and he made seven journeys to the American colonies, where his preaching helped spark the First Great Awakening. He died in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Andrew Murray (1828–1917)
South African Dutch Reformed minister, born in Graaff-Reinet and educated in Scotland and the Netherlands. He was a leader in the 1860 revival in South Africa and wrote more than 240 books, including With Christ in the School of Prayer (1885) and Abide in Christ.
Steve Hill (1954–2014)
American evangelist whose preaching on Father’s Day 1995 at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, began the Brownsville Revival, which drew millions over the next five years. He later founded Heartland World Ministries in Dallas and was Daniel K. Norris’s mentor. He died of cancer in March 2014.
Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994)
English-born evangelist and author, trained at Cliff College, who moved to the United States in the 1950s and later settled in Lindale, Texas. His book Why Revival Tarries (1959) remains a classic call to prayer and holiness. Because his works are still under copyright, we recommend them here but do not reproduce them.
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