Johnathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell…” stated during one of Jonathan Edwards sermons. Edwards used extreme and harsh words like these to convince the members of his congregation they were completely evil. Edwards' view of people was very short, seeing people as only servers of God and nothing more. He preached each sermon with great conviction, and yet, he remained calm, often taking time to quiet the crowd. Edwards' sermons, a large part of his life, remain famous today.
Preachers no, such as Jonathan Haney have an extremely different approach to preaching. Haney speaks words of experience and teaches life lessons. Edwards only s...