Sermons & Devotionals by Charles G. Finney
Charles G. Finney
LETTER FROM PROF. FINNEY TO MISS A.E. OF VERMONT
Dear Sister: Your interesting communication is just received and read. I am pressed with many duties and cannot answer so much in detail as I could wish. You suggest that an answer in the Oberlin Evangelist would be acceptable. As I am receiving many letters containing similar inquires, I think it m... Read More
Charles G. Finney
LETTER FROM PROF. FINNEY TO MISS A.E. OF VERMONT--No. 4.
Dear Sister A: Your fourth enquiry relates to public duties. You say, "I am very much tried in relation to duties, particularly public ones; and here, may I ask what you think to be the appropriate public duties for a female who is willing to do the whole will of God. What part should she bear in co... Read More
Charles G. Finney
LETTER FROM PROF. FINNEY TO MISS A.E. OF VERMONT.--No. 2.
Dear Sister A: Your second inquiry relates to the subject of dress. "After having received the blessing of which I have spoken, I was very sensitive in relation to dress--about conforming to the fashion of the world, and felt that I never would change my form of dress. In this too, I have departed, ... Read More
Charles G. Finney
LETTER FROM PROF. FINNEY TO MISS A.E. OF VERMONT.--No. 3.
Dear Sister A: Your third enquiry relates to the subject of wearing mourning apparel. You say, "A brother once remarked in my presence that he felt it was wrong for people to change their dress at the loss of friends, or in other words, to put on mourning apparel." He thought it was conforming to th... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 1.
To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Beloved in the Lord:--Many of you are aware that several years since a series of Lectures on the subject of Revivals was published through the columns of the N. York Evangelist. These Lectures were preached by me to my own... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 12
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: I have yet many things to say on the subject of the appearance of a fanatical spirit, in connexion with revivals. The particular thing to which I would now call the attention of the brethren, is this. There ... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 13.
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: I am rejoiced to perceive that the inquiry is beginning to agitate the Church. --Why are there not more revivals! as well as why is there character so changed? The inquiry is also made, What can be done to p... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 14.
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: I hope my brethren will bear with me, while I further insist on the general delinquency of ministers, especially of late, in regard to revivals. There has been so manifest and so lamentable a falling off fro... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 15.
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: Another cause of the decline of revivals, in my estimation is, that a right course has not been pursued with the churches. In some instances they have been urged to labor and visit, and put forth active effo... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 16.
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: Another thing that has acted very injuriously to the interests of revivals of religion is the false views that have prevailed in relation to the best means of promoting them. And in respect to means, if I ha... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 17.
THE IMPOLICY OF SPASMODIC EFFORTS [continued in No. 18--Ed.] To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: There is another class of Christians than those to whom I referred in my last, that seem to me to have fallen into an error opposed to that of whi... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 18.*
THE IMPOLICY OF SPASMODIC EFFORTS [Continued from No. 17--Ed.] To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Before I proceed farther on the subject of my last letter, I wish to call the attention of the brethren to an evil, which seems to me to have gr... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 19.*
HINDRANCES TO A REVIVAL SPIRIT To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another thing that is working an immense evil in the present day is the growing sectarianism of the church. It seems to me that the leading denominations that have heretofore b... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 20.
OBJECTIONS TO PROTRACTED MEETINGS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: I designed to have prepared a letter for insertion previous to the one which appeared in the last paper, continuing my remarks on the subject of the use of means to promote ... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 21.
HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS. To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: In noticing the hindrances to revivals of religion I must not forget to urge more definitely and strongly than I have hitherto done, the great want of sympathy with Christ in the mini... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 3.
To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: I have already intimated that pains enough have not been taken to search the heart and thoroughly detect and expose the sinner's depravity, so as to make him see the need of the gospel remedy. If I am not mi... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 4.
To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: I said in my last that there seemed to be two extremes toward which different classes of persons are continually verging. Those extremes are Antinomianism on the one hand, and legality on the other--both man... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 5.
To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another error in the promotion of revivals is a want of such discriminations in the instructions given, as thoroughly to develop the true idea of religion in the mind. I have been astonished and greatly pain... Read More
Charles G. Finney
Letters On Revival--No. 6.
To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another error which has prevailed to some extent, I fear, in the promotion of revivals, has been a kind of preaching that has rather puffed up than humbled and subdued the mind. I mean a kind of preaching wh... Read More
Charles G. Finney
LETTERS ON REVIVALS--No. 10.
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Dear Brethren: I beg leave to call the attention of the brethren to the danger of revival preachers themselves introducing the spirit of fanaticism. When they meet with great opposition from the church or the world or the ... Read More
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Charles Finney (1792 - 1875)
Known as one of the leaders in the Second Great Awakening revival in America. He was a revivalist who called for deep introspection of sin and preaching of the law to bring about sin. He was known to preach 30+ nights on sin and than the last night on Christ to have people flee to Him for mercy. Used greatly in the book: "Revivals of Religion" which is a classic on the subject of revival.He preached on the true Baptism of the Holy Spirit and its necessity. In his revivalistic campaigns he was used of the Lord to bring some estimate over 50,000 souls to the Lord which many were sound converts. There has been questions raised surrounding his theology in the later years of his ministry but this does not discredit that God used him powerfully in revival and for God's kingdom.
Charles Finney was born in Connecticut to an ordinary family and life that gave little hint of the great things God had in store for him. He was a schoolteacher and then a lawyer before his conversion at age 29. Finney was filled with the Holy Spirit on the same day he was saved and immediately began witnessing to friends and family members. More than twenty people were saved in the 24 hours following Finney's conversion. Finney's personal evangelism soon became public evangelism as he began to travel and preach in extended revival meetings. He considered revival to be a natural result of following the instructions God had laid out in His Word.
During Finney's fifty years of preaching, more than 500,000 were saved. He wrote many books, the most enduring of which are The Autobiography of Charles Finney and Lectures on Revival of Religion. After ill health forced him to stop traveling in meetings, he accepted the pastorate of a church in New York City. From 1852 until 1866 he served as president of Oberlin College in Ohio. Although some of his theology was lacking, he was a powerful, Spirit-filled soul winner who brought revival to cities and towns across the eastern United States.