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Revival in the Hebrides
This anthology of Duncan Campbell's books and sermons includes The Lewis Awakening, The Hebrides Revival, The Price and Power of Revival, Duncan Campbell's conversion testimony and addresses at Oxford and the Keswick Convention; a collection of testimonies from converts of the Hebrides Revival and rare historic photos. Also includes a rebuttal of Owen Murphy's "When God Stepped Down From Heaven," a book that Duncan Campbell repudiated but which is back in circulation today. Revival in the Hebrides is a book that you may read in a day, but return to again and again
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115 pages, Paperback
Published January 24, 2016
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Duncan C. Campbell
68 books8 followersDuncan Campbell was a British journalist and author who worked particularly on crime issues. He was a senior reporter/correspondent for The Guardian from 1987 until 2010, and authored several books.
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March 26, 2025
"This little anthology is arranged so as to give the reader a bright and inspiring vision of revival. Those unfamiliar with revival history will see that there is a level of Christian experience unknown to our generation; that we are merely paddling around the shore of an infinite ocean of Grace. And those who are praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit will understand the magnitude of what they are praying for!"
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September 29, 2021
In this short work, Campbell convincingly lays out what revival is and what revival is not. I loved reading about how God worked a true revival in the Hebrides Islands off of Scotland in the middle of the 1900s. Reading what he described showed me that we have never seen anything near revival in this country since the 2nd Great Awakening.
Campbell makes it clear that revival did not occur in the Hebrides due to his influence. He happened upon it and was able to be a part of what God was already doing. He describes scenes that are almost hard to believe (it's because we know nothing of this type of God-sent revival today).
One of the eye-opening truths brought out many times throughout the book is that there is a difference between evangelism & revival. Evangelism can see souls saved and reach people and the church added to. However, most of the time, that does NOT result in community change. Revival radically changes and reaches the community. The lost will be drawn to God in large numbers when a true revival hits. Ungodly commerce will shut their doors & never reopen (bars, dance halls, etc). In other words, radical community change.
This book will encourage you to rethink what a true revival is and to long for Heaven-sent revival in our land.
Here are a few excerpts:
"In revival every service is an inquiry room; the road and hill side become sacred spots to many when the winds of God blow. Revival is a going of God among His people, and an awareness of God laying hold of the community."
Campbell lists four items he saw in the revival of the Hebrides Islands:
1. First, they themselves must be rightly related to God.
2. They were possessed of the conviction that God, being a covenant-keeping God, must keep His covenant engagements.
3. They must be prepared for God to work in His own way and not according to their program - God is sovereign and must act according to His sovereign purpose.
4. There must be a manifestation of Gog, demonstrating the reality of the Divine in operation, when men would be forced to say, 'This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.'
"The supernatural working of God the Holy Spirit in revival power is something that no man can fully describe, and it would be folly to attempt it."
"Revival is something altogether different from evangelism on its highest level."
"Revival is a moving of God in the community and suddenly the community becoming God conscious before a word is said by any man representing any man representing any special effort."
"Of course, you understand, we made no appeals - you never need to make an appeal or an altar call in revival."
"You can be God-fearing and know nothing of salvation."
"It has been said that 'the Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.' "
"Never compromise to accommodate the devil."
"Bring me a God of all mercy but not just, bring me a God all love but not righteous, and I will have no scruples in calling Him an idiot of your imagination." A Highland Minister quoted in the book
Rev. Robert Barr, of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa quoted as follows: "This is what our age needs, not an easy-moving message, the sort of thing that makes the hearer feel all nice inside, but a message profoundly disturbing. We have been far too afraid of disturbing people, but the Holy Spirit will have nothing to do with a message or with a minister who is afraid of disturbing. You might as well expect a surgeon to give place to a quack who claims to be able to do the job with some sweet tasting drug, as expect the Holy Spirit to agree that the tragic plight of human souls today can be met by soft and easy words. Calvary was anything but nice to look at, blood-soaked beams of wood, a bruised and bleeding body, not nice to look upon. But then Jesus was not dealing with a nice thing; He was dealing with the sin of the world, and that is what we are called upon to deal with today. Soft and easy words, soft pedaling will never meet the need."
"The best advertising campaign any church or any mission can put up is fire in the pulpit and a blaze in the pew."
"A full and complete surrender is the price of blessing, but that is also the price of revival."
"How true it is that despair is often the womb from which real faith is born."
Campbell makes it clear that revival did not occur in the Hebrides due to his influence. He happened upon it and was able to be a part of what God was already doing. He describes scenes that are almost hard to believe (it's because we know nothing of this type of God-sent revival today).
One of the eye-opening truths brought out many times throughout the book is that there is a difference between evangelism & revival. Evangelism can see souls saved and reach people and the church added to. However, most of the time, that does NOT result in community change. Revival radically changes and reaches the community. The lost will be drawn to God in large numbers when a true revival hits. Ungodly commerce will shut their doors & never reopen (bars, dance halls, etc). In other words, radical community change.
This book will encourage you to rethink what a true revival is and to long for Heaven-sent revival in our land.
Here are a few excerpts:
"In revival every service is an inquiry room; the road and hill side become sacred spots to many when the winds of God blow. Revival is a going of God among His people, and an awareness of God laying hold of the community."
Campbell lists four items he saw in the revival of the Hebrides Islands:
1. First, they themselves must be rightly related to God.
2. They were possessed of the conviction that God, being a covenant-keeping God, must keep His covenant engagements.
3. They must be prepared for God to work in His own way and not according to their program - God is sovereign and must act according to His sovereign purpose.
4. There must be a manifestation of Gog, demonstrating the reality of the Divine in operation, when men would be forced to say, 'This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.'
"The supernatural working of God the Holy Spirit in revival power is something that no man can fully describe, and it would be folly to attempt it."
"Revival is something altogether different from evangelism on its highest level."
"Revival is a moving of God in the community and suddenly the community becoming God conscious before a word is said by any man representing any man representing any special effort."
"Of course, you understand, we made no appeals - you never need to make an appeal or an altar call in revival."
"You can be God-fearing and know nothing of salvation."
"It has been said that 'the Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.' "
"Never compromise to accommodate the devil."
"Bring me a God of all mercy but not just, bring me a God all love but not righteous, and I will have no scruples in calling Him an idiot of your imagination." A Highland Minister quoted in the book
Rev. Robert Barr, of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa quoted as follows: "This is what our age needs, not an easy-moving message, the sort of thing that makes the hearer feel all nice inside, but a message profoundly disturbing. We have been far too afraid of disturbing people, but the Holy Spirit will have nothing to do with a message or with a minister who is afraid of disturbing. You might as well expect a surgeon to give place to a quack who claims to be able to do the job with some sweet tasting drug, as expect the Holy Spirit to agree that the tragic plight of human souls today can be met by soft and easy words. Calvary was anything but nice to look at, blood-soaked beams of wood, a bruised and bleeding body, not nice to look upon. But then Jesus was not dealing with a nice thing; He was dealing with the sin of the world, and that is what we are called upon to deal with today. Soft and easy words, soft pedaling will never meet the need."
"The best advertising campaign any church or any mission can put up is fire in the pulpit and a blaze in the pew."
"A full and complete surrender is the price of blessing, but that is also the price of revival."
"How true it is that despair is often the womb from which real faith is born."
October 4, 2018
More of this Lord!
What an encouraging account of revival. May we live with expectation for more of this in our time. These stories are gems for the church.
What an encouraging account of revival. May we live with expectation for more of this in our time. These stories are gems for the church.
July 18, 2024
Literally finished this book as we pulled off the ferry to the Isle of Harris and Lewis. Incredible. Lord, do it again.
October 26, 2016
Convinced of the need for Revival
A stirring account of the events surrounding the revival in the Hebrides. I find it impossible to read this book and fail to be compelled to pray for revival. Theologically it offers a welcomed Calvinistic tension of the sovereignty of God to the Arminian perspective of stepping out in faith.
A stirring account of the events surrounding the revival in the Hebrides. I find it impossible to read this book and fail to be compelled to pray for revival. Theologically it offers a welcomed Calvinistic tension of the sovereignty of God to the Arminian perspective of stepping out in faith.
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July 27, 2020I was rather skeptical while reading this because I couldn’t help but believe that the author and others were exaggerating.
Here are a few examples: One of the participants stated that while he and others were walking to catch a bus light shone around them. He continues, “I looked up to see where the light was coming from and I saw the face of Christ.”
Another one said, “[A] man from Lochs saw angels going across the moor toward Point. In fact, he saw them two nights running. During this time there was heavenly singing. I heard it myself the night I was converted...” A little later she wrote or said, “I saw a light at my feet and at last said, ‘What is this light I see on the ground.’ We looked behind us and the light was there.”
Some of the experiences related in this book sound very much like what could be encountered in the superstitious excesses that I’ve read in some Roman Catholic material.
I thought these too spectacular and somewhat miraculous to be believed right away hence the reason for no stars.
Overall, I found what I've read in this book to be symptomatic of today's Christianity which appears to be more interested in experiences than doctrine.
Here are a few examples: One of the participants stated that while he and others were walking to catch a bus light shone around them. He continues, “I looked up to see where the light was coming from and I saw the face of Christ.”
Another one said, “[A] man from Lochs saw angels going across the moor toward Point. In fact, he saw them two nights running. During this time there was heavenly singing. I heard it myself the night I was converted...” A little later she wrote or said, “I saw a light at my feet and at last said, ‘What is this light I see on the ground.’ We looked behind us and the light was there.”
Some of the experiences related in this book sound very much like what could be encountered in the superstitious excesses that I’ve read in some Roman Catholic material.
I thought these too spectacular and somewhat miraculous to be believed right away hence the reason for no stars.
Overall, I found what I've read in this book to be symptomatic of today's Christianity which appears to be more interested in experiences than doctrine.
August 5, 2019
I have been reading about one chapter a week of this book, loaned to me by a friend who also loves Jesus, on my Sabbath days as I've been treasuring my time with the Lord. I finished today, as my summer is coming to an end, and I am genuinely thankful for the ways the Lord has convicted me and provoked me with the testimonies and the prayers in this book. Some parts of the structure or narrative were sometimes confusing, but overall, I'm just glad this account exists, and hope to read and see many others like it as God comes to meet us His people who prevail in prayer.
December 18, 2017
The first chapter was not written well, making it a little tough to follow and difficult to keep reading. However, the content was encouraging and thought provoking. Would recommend to anyone desiring to see the way the Holy Spirit has been at work in the present day and is willing to see past the writing style.
May 21, 2020
Mere words cannot articulate what the pages say
Oh that God would sweep through our nationZ. He is able but are we willing. Are our hands clean? Are our hearts pure? We need revival as the one described on the pages of this writing. Will we humble ourselves? Will we repent and turn from our evil ways. God is listening, he is waiting. Are we?
Oh that God would sweep through our nationZ. He is able but are we willing. Are our hands clean? Are our hearts pure? We need revival as the one described on the pages of this writing. Will we humble ourselves? Will we repent and turn from our evil ways. God is listening, he is waiting. Are we?
June 17, 2025
True Revival
Witnessing the broken and contrite hearts of those who experienced revival, the reader is confronted with their own need to bare their heart before the Lord God Almighty, seek His face, and throw off the dry formulas of church and meetings. May we seek the Lord while there is still time.
Witnessing the broken and contrite hearts of those who experienced revival, the reader is confronted with their own need to bare their heart before the Lord God Almighty, seek His face, and throw off the dry formulas of church and meetings. May we seek the Lord while there is still time.
August 30, 2019
REVIVAL can happen again!
This account of the Hebridean revival contains encouragement and direction for those of us hungry for something similar to meet the even greater need today. I loved it and hope you will too.
This account of the Hebridean revival contains encouragement and direction for those of us hungry for something similar to meet the even greater need today. I loved it and hope you will too.
July 7, 2019
Fascinating!
May 28, 2020
Need to read again Revival is coming And it came to the Hebrides big time
July 7, 2020
Awesome Reading!
For anyone seeking revival! This is a must. We must return to humbly crying out that God would fall on our nation.
For anyone seeking revival! This is a must. We must return to humbly crying out that God would fall on our nation.
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