Are you searching for spiritual awakening in your daily life but unsure how to start? Are you hungry for more from God but struggling with practical ways […]
I grew up on a farm, homesteaded by my grandfather, Joseph Whitefield Phillips, in northeastern Mississippi. This Primitive Baptist circuit rider with a revivalist middle name […]
Seen as a whole, Burns’ timeless principles offer more than just the “big picture” of spiritual awakening. As you look at each truth, the real discovery […]
Any movement that strikes in one direction creates a reciprocal reaction. Burns’ tenth principle of revival is the Principle of Recoil. If the church is under […]
Burns’ eighth principle of revival is the Principle of Influence. As revival progresses—as the wave action builds, as the movement of God crests—large numbers of people […]
James Burns’ sixth principle of revival is the Principle of Leadership. In any revival, at least one prophet always emerges. Though he or she may be a […]
Look at any spiritual awakening in history, including those that have occurred in our country, and you’ll discover an obvious, common thread: Revival is always preceded […]
Most Christians today are unfamiliar with the big picture principles of revival. In the classic work Revivals, Their Laws and Leaders James Burns identifies 11 laws […]
Revival is happening this very moment in the coal-mining country of West Virginia. Prayer and desperation for God led to a great movement of God. As […]
A fourth potential obstacle to personal and national spiritual awakening is apathy. This disease of disinterest has been a nagging, disruptive gadfly to every revival in […]
A third potential obstacle to personal revival and spiritual awakening is the very real fear of not being accepted (and feeling rejected) by others. Imagine Jesus […]
The second potential obstacle to personal and national spiritual revival is as basic as our desire to know God. It is the need to understand. North […]
The renowned pastor Charles Spurgeon, while giving people a tour of his church prior to his sermons, led them down into the basement. “Here, I want […]
When a nation’s darkness becomes overwhelmingly destructive, only God can supply what people need to be brought back to life. These things include the assurance of […]
If you think our current moral decay, increasing violence, and crumbling ethics are signs of an inevitable, darker, downward spiral, think again. Consider the uneasy twilight […]
God’s greatest desire, as the supreme evangelist, is for people everywhere to know Him personally in and through Jesus. God has chosen to reach the rest […]
At a small downtown community church in Memphis, Tennessee, thirty-five men gathered for a special Saturday morning meeting. They had learned that Bill, a man in […]
God’s constant re-creative nature to rekindle His people, and through them, to light that same fire in others who have known only darkness, is undeniable and […]
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