Books on Revival

Here's a list of books I own on revival that I'll be using in one way or another for my current sermon series Revival: Longing for a Surprising Work of God.

I tried to list them in the order of how much I expect to use (or depend on) each one for this series. I'm referencing a number of other things as well (articles, audio, websites) but this list is for books alone.

UPDATE 2.8.11: I added some new books at the bottom, and a few comments in parentheses where I have something to say, so far.

• Revival | Martyn Lloyd-Jones (classic)
• A God-Sized Vision | Collin Hansen & John Woodbridge (so good, fun read)
• Revival Year Sermons | C.H. Spurgeon (great, moving)
• Lectures on Revival | WB Sprague (helpful)
• The Power of Prayer: The New York Revival of 1858 | Samuel Prime
• The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 Vols)
• The Puritans: Their Origins & Successors | D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• Puritan Papers (first 3 vols) | J.I. Packer & M. Lloyd Jones
• Revival & Revivalism | Iain Murray
• Pentecost Today? | Iain Murray (really helpful & corrective on revival mistakes)
• Preparing Your Church for Revival | TM Moore
• Praying for Revival | Eric Hayden (just ok, like a Bible devotional on revival)
• Thoughts on Religious Experience | Archibald Alexander
• Salvation In Full Color | Richard Owen Roberts
• Repentance | Richard Owen Roberts
• Give Him No Rest | Erroll Hulse (lots of great stuff, inspiring truths, quotes)
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life | George Marsden
• A God Entranced Vision of All Things | John Piper & Justin Taylor
• Jonathan Edwards | Stephen J. Nichols
• Revival Praying & Revival God's Way | Leonard Ravenhill
• Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire | Jim Cymbala
• Come Down, Lord! | Roger Ellsworth (I finally located it today!)

Additions as of 1/20/2011...

• The Puritan Hope: Revival & the Interpretation of Prophecy | Iain Murray
• The Revived Puritan: The Spirituality of George Whitefield | Ed. Michael Haykin

Additions as of 2/8/2011...

• Revival | Brian Edwards (highly recommended by others, amazing so far, fav so far)
• Lectures on Revival. By Ministers of the Church of Scotland | Richard Owen Roberts, ed
• Scotland Saw His Glory | Richard Owen Roberts
• The Turn of the Tide | W. Vernon Higham

I'd love to hear your suggestions for other books on revivals or about revival. I also assume as I peruse my personal library I could add a few to this list that I overlooked.

Comments

[Brian Hedges]

Two of my favorites: Revival: A People Saturated with God, Bryan Edwards and Dynamics of Spiritual Life, Richard Lovelace

[Philip Nation]

Great list. I would add:
The Awakening that Must Come by Lewis Drummond
Revive Us Again by Walter Kaiser
Jonathan Edwards, Evangelist by John Gerstner

[Steve McCoy]

Too many good books on revival are out of print, such as Edwards.

[Danny Slavich]

Steve, Great list! Did you happen to take Nettles' Revivals and Revivalism class at SBTS? It was fantastic; we read a lot of the stuff on your list. I've found When God Comes to Church, by Ray Ortlund to be fantastic as well.

-Danny

[Luke]

Any book by Ravenhill is good. Also try J. Edwin Orr "full Surrender". I think this is the link to the pdf of the book. http://www.jedwinorr.com/Full_Surrender.pdf

[Ben Canfield]

John Kitchen wrote a book called "Revival in the Rubble." It is not the most popular of books but helpful nonetheless. He walks through the revival that took place in Nehemiah's day. Also, you might want to check out www.lifeaction.org.

[Bo]

Currently reading Dynamics of Spiritual Life: An Evangelical Theology of Revival by Richard Lovelace. This might be helpful to you.

[Steve McCoy]

It's "Renewal" not "Revival," but yes, Lovelace is great. Thanks Bo.

[Dan]

As well as Brian Edwards book 'Revival' he has written a second one 'Can we pray for revival?'

Both excellent reads.

[Steve Burchett]

Hi Steve:

I'm a little late to the party here, but I would add to the mix a book by John Thornbury - God Sent Revival: The Story of Asahel Nettleton and the Second Great Awakening. It's essentially a bio. of Nettleton.

You can read an article on Nettleton written by Jim Erhard at the following link: http://www.ccwtoday.org/article_view.asp?article_id=17

Thanks bro.,
Steve

[Steve McCoy]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Joshua Harris]

Steve, I'd encourage you to check out Ray Ortlund's book "When God Comes to Church." It's out of print but you can find it used online. Great sermons on revival from the Old Testament.

[Steve McCoy]

Hey Joshua. I actually talked to Ray about whether the book coming back in print. It isn't, and it's not cheap used. I was hoping to find it at a used store a couple of weeks ago, but didn't. Didn't know if it was worth $35. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep looking.