In this week's podcast, John Kimball talks about "The Critical Need for Intercessory Prayer in Rural Ministry." This is an excerpt from John's breakout session at the 2014 Renovate National Church Revitalization Conference in Orlando, FL. Click the image to the right to listen to the podcast.  For more information about up-coming Renovate conferences, visit RenovateConference.org

In this edition of the Renovate Church Revitalization Podcast, Rusty Davidson talks about "Utilizing Logos Bible Software for Sermon Preparation." This is an excerpt from Rusty's breakout session at the Renovate National Church Revitalization Conference 2014 in Orlando Florida.  Click the image to the right to listen to the podcast.

In today's podcast, Lenny Luchetti talks about "The Healthy and Growing Preacher" from his break-out session at #Renovate14 in Orlando.  Lenny Luchetti is Associate Professor of Proclamation & Christian Ministries, Wesley Seminary of Indiana Wesleyan University. Click the image on the left or the link below to  listen to the podcast.

Ron Smith, Lead Pastor of First Baptist Church of Altamonte Springs discuss what pastors are the overseers. What does it mean to serve as an overseer, especially when churches don't recognize it. Listen as Ron has great Biblical answers!

Ron Smith, Lead Pastor of First Baptist Church Altamonte Springs will discuss and go over Four Elements of a Successful Revitalization: 1. Supernatural Power - God gave a demonstration of His power - the power He promised. 2.

Are you just trying to survive? A survival mentality is not going to serve you very long. Challenges will come.

Todd Parr, Executive Pastor FB Broken Arrow, Oklahoma & Tom Cheyney. Todd is also on the Church Revitalization Team of their local association. They approach churches with options that can help them not to become plateud and declined.

Scott Gillis, Chief Operations Office, Creation Ministries International & Tom Cheyney. In today's podcast, Scott brings challenges and opportunities for the local church: evolution, etc... A message to that shows people the evidence supports the historical account of the Bible.

Larry Wynn, Georgia Baptist Convention & Tom Cheyney bring great facts on preaching towards revitalization. The pastor is the gate keeper in church revitalization and the pulpit is one of the primary places church revitalization begins. The pastors vision and heart has to come from the word of God.

Eric Ramsey, President of Tom Cox World Ministries & Tom Cheyney discuss important issues on this subject. One of the biggest challenges are: Methodology and issues of contextualization. For a long time, there were evangelism methods that worked in the church that actually became the banner that people gathered around.