A life worth having

David Brainerd: As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having: but O how vain and unworthy it is, to live for any lower end! HT: CQOD.

3 lessons from Brainerd’s death

From Jesse Johnson: David Brainerd died 265 years ago. Yesterday [Tuesday] was the anniversary of his home going. Brainerd’s life ended when he was only 29 years old. He was not exactly famous when he died; he was expelled from Yale for declaring that an empty chair had more evidence of grace than the seminary […]

Free David Brainerd Biography eBook

From Desiring God: In 1742 Yale College expelled David Brainerd. He had made some prohibited comments about some of the faculty and, though at the top of his class academically, Yale booted him. Add to this that in order to be an established minister in Connecticut you had to be a graduate of Yale, Harvard, […]

Today’s Quote – Godliness (Brainerd)

David Brainerd, Life and Diary: Some signs of godliness. The distinguishing marks of a true Christian, taken from one of my old manuscripts; where I wrote as I felt and experienced, and not from any considerable degree of doctrinal knowledge, or acquaintance with the sentiments of others in this point. He has a true knowledge […]

Today’s Quote – Heaven (Brainerd)

David Brainerd: I viewed the infinite excellency of God and my soul even broke with longings that God should be glorified. I thought of dignity in heaven, but instantly the thought returned, “I do not go to heaven to get honor, but to give all possible glory and praise.” Oh, how I longed that God […]