Good article on Jonathan Edward’s life
LeadershipJournal.net – Leader’s Insight: The Resolution Maker
Leader’s Insight: The Resolution Maker The story behind Jonathan Edwards’s long list. by Roll Moll, guest columnist New Year’s Day, as we know it on January 1, wasn’t adopted until in 1752. At that time, Puritans eschewed New Year’s celebrations. Rather, they encouraged their children to meditate on the year past and the one to come. And one Puritan in particular took to making resolutions. Resolutions, and a determined ability to keep them, fashioned the character of the leading pastor and promoter of America’s First Great Awakening. And, according to his biographer George Marsden, his revivalism helped to shape America as an independent country.
