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1. The Unwelcome Guest Sitting on Your Table

The turkey is cooked to perfection and trimmed with all the best fixings. Your table setting is so beautiful it could grace the cover of a magazine. Your friends and family have all arrived and the house ...

Created on 20 November 2017

2. Steve Hill's Spiritual Son: The Racists and Bigots of Charlottesville Need Us to Fight on Their Behal

When your city is burning down around you, it's not time to grab a camera, but to bring a hose!  This weekend I grieved as I watched the chaos loosed in our streets. The racism, bigotry and hate that poured ...

Created on 15 August 2017

3. What You Never Knew About Steve Hill and the Brownsville Revival

The revival began on Father's Day when an evangelist named Steve Hill was unexpectedly invited to speak. It was somewhat unusual for a senior pastor, such as John Kilpatrick, to give up his pulpit on such ...

Created on 03 April 2017

4. 4 Revolutionaries Who Saw Revival Change Their Worlds

The Trail of Fire tour has come to Dallas, where in 1912 a historic move of God took place and shook the region. At the center of this revival was a controversial woman who was pioneering a path for many ...

Created on 31 March 2017

5. Why We Don't See Revival Toda

On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. Our nation lost 2,403 Americans in that devastating blow to our Pacific fleet. The following day, President Franklin ...

Created on 17 February 2017

6. We're About to See Revival 500 Years in the Makin

This year we will mark the 500-year anniversary of a date that forever altered the course of world history. It was Oct. 17, 1517 when a priest named Martin Luther came to the doors of the Castle Church ...

Created on 13 February 2017

7. Did God Allow the School Shooting That Slaughtered Children?

I am sitting outside of the elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, as I write this. I came to pray with and for a community that is still grieving the loss of one of its youngest. It was just ...

Created on 28 October 2016

8. How Azusa Street Exposed—and Overturned—Racism in the Church

It was the fall of 1906 when G.B. Cashwell, a holiness preacher from Dunn, North Carolina, boarded a train to make a six-day, cross-country trip to Los Angeles, California. For months he had been reading ...

Created on 11 October 2016

9. Why Spirit-Filled Believers Have No Excuse for Timidity

... Trail of Fire by Daniel K. Norris, copyright 2016, published by Charisma House. If you want to put aside mediocrity and "burn with passion for God's presence" this book is for you. Now is the time to boldly ...

Created on 29 August 2016

10. Holy Spirit Ignites Old-Fashioned Holiness Revival in a Graveyard

Some say holiness is old-fashioned. I disagree. It's God-fashioned! Hebrews 12:14 makes that abundantly clear by compelling the true Christ-follower to pursue holiness, "without which no one will see the ...

Created on 08 July 2016

11. Why the Cane Ridge Revival Holds Prophetic Hope for America's Third Great Awakenin

It had been a long journey through the forest and hills of Kentucky just to make it to the log cabin church in Cane Ridge yet tens of thousands found the outcome to be well worth the effort. Barton Stone, ...

Created on 07 July 2016

12. Could Jonathan Edwards' Peculiar Habit Hold the Key to the Next Great Awakening?

The bright summer sun was casting its long golden beams through a canopy of trees onto a group of children, playing in a nearby park. As they ran through a clearing they happened upon a strange man who ...

Created on 20 June 2016

13. 5 Ways Your Faith Can Get You Fired

Beware! Sharing this could now be considered as an offense worth firing someone over in the United States of America. Last week was yet another wake-up call to anyone who cares about faith and freedom. ...

Created on 02 May 2016

14. For Some, Is There a More Offensive Book Than the Bible?

The best-selling book of all time just made a top 10 list of the most frequently challenged books in America. I'm surprised it wasn't number one.   Every year the American Library Association publishes ...

Created on 29 April 2016

15. What I Learned About True Revival From Steve Hill

There is a story I share in Receptivity: Tuning into God's Voice that illustrates how our position before God affects our receptiveness to God. The story comes from a time when I found myself in the office ...

Created on 07 March 2016

16. A Prophetic Vision of the Elections to Come

"Arise and awaken church for the future of your nation rests within your hands!" Those were the words I heard in my spirit as I prayed this morning. At the same time I saw a large, brass balance scale ...

Created on 22 February 2016

17. Obama Says ISIL Does Not Speak for Islam—Is He Right?

Sunday night in a rare address from the Oval Office, President Obama spoke to the nation about the growing threat of terrorism from ISIL. Just a few months ago the President dismissed the group as a "JV ...

Created on 09 December 2015

18. 3 Things We Should Learn From the Starbucks #RedCups Fiasco

Now that the "brew ha-ha" over the #MerryChristmasStarbucks controversy has cooled, it's worth taking a look back to see what might be learned. In the rare chance you missed it, last week a self-proclaimed ...

Created on 13 November 2015

19. Why Obama Won't Call the Nation to Prayer After #IAmAChristian Massacr

The shooter entered the classroom, lined everyone up and then systematically went one by one asking, "Are you a Christian or not?" If they said, "yes" he shot them in the head, if they said "no" he shot ...

Created on 07 October 2015

20. Is the Church Hypocritical About What Marriage Is?

I was honored to participate in a very precious, and rare marriage ceremony. Rare because not only were the bride and groom both virgins—the two had even gone so far as to save their very first kiss for ...

Created on 23 June 2015