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The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jonathan Edwards is well known as perhaps the greatest theologian the United States has ever produced. He is equally noted for his preaching and writing. But in this Long Line Profile, Dr. Steven J. Lawson considers the unique focus and commitment with which Edwards sought to live out the Christian faith. Lawson examines Edwards’ life through the lens of the seventy resolutions he penned in his...

to Jesus Christ. He wrote that, while he was contemplating 1 Timothy 1:17, “There came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from anything I ever experienced before.”26 His heart immediately was overjoyed with rapturous thoughts of God. Edwards would later write: I began to have a new kind of apprehensions and ideas of Christ, and the work of redemption, and the glorious ways of salvation by Him. An inward, sweet
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