This video looks at the history of the first sermon in America at the Plymouth Colony. The man was Robert Cushman, a deacon, who had come to inspect the investment of the colony. In the end, he preached the first sermon ever in the new colonies.

Thomas Kidd’s Books:

‘The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America’: http://amzn.to/2gF24NB
‘God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution’: http://amzn.to/2hnJuaT
‘American Colonial History: Clashing Cultures and Faiths’: http://amzn.to/2hgvTEM
‘George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father’: http://amzn.to/2hmCZYV
‘Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father’: http://amzn.to/2gFeCVf

Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Twitter:   / ryanmreeves   Instagram:   / ryreeves4  

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