by Moody Center | Aug 12, 2020 | Article, News
On New Year’s Eve 1949, a fiery, young southern evangelist named Billy Graham was invited to the Boston area to speak at Park Street Church as the congregation brought in the New Year. The evening’s event would also serve as the kickoff for a weeklong crusade at the...
by James Spencer | Jul 30, 2020 | Article, News
Over the past few years as I’ve been working with Moody Center, based in Dwight L. Moody’s home state of Massachusetts, I’ve had the opportunity to interact with many Christians — including many pastors — in New England. If you are not...
by James Spencer | Jul 26, 2020 | Article
In Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics, Samuel Wells argues that our ability to make ethical choices is seldom a question of having special resolve at the moment of decision. It is a question of preparation, or “moral effort,” through which we develop...
by James Spencer | Jul 21, 2020 | D.L. Moody
In one of his letters to his brother George, Dwight Moody advises him about some tensions that threaten to create disunity in the church. After expressing his concern about the Y.M.C.A., he urges George to do what is needed to preserve peace in the body of Christ with...
by James Spencer | Jul 16, 2020 | Article
“The trouble nowadays is that it doesn’t mean anything to some people to be a Christian. What we must have is a higher type of Christianity in this country. We must have a Christianity that has in it the principle of self-denial. We must deny ourselves. If...
by Moody Center | Jun 25, 2020 | D.L. Moody
The early history of New England is characterized by several distinct periods of renewed religious fervor. Dwight L. Moody, himself from the Massachusetts countryside, is one in a line of evangelists and preachers who are still remembered for their important roles in...
