Lead Pastor from Kentwood Community Church Kyle Ray shares his heart not only for revival but also for how the American church can better handle the issue of diversity in a Christlike fashion.  He also suggests how we can better reach millennials and deal with increased Biblical illiteracy. He expresses his concerns about becoming merely cultural rather than Biblical Christians. Finally, he speak his heart to followers of Christ in our region in the hope of the Gospel and the reality of the living Christ in His followers.

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Dr. Terry Slachter is the Executive Director of Reaching America Ministries (formerly Project Phillip) and is also the lead pastor of Lamont Christian Reformed Church. Terry also is the author of "The Next Great Awakening." He speaks from his extensive knowledge of and heart for revival and spiritual awakening. He knows what it will take to make it happen in our day.

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Dick Hertel was a pastor and yet, by his own admission, not yet born again. He tells that story here and how, after beginning his personal walk with God, he began to diligently share his faith with others. If this can happen to a man with a doctorate of divinity from a fine seminary, you wonder how many men and women who attend church every week are similarly so close to God but not really saved. This story is a classic.

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Bill Elliff is the lead pastor of the Summit Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has long had a heart for revival and tells in this podcast a time when God brought a real taste of revival to his church. I interviewed Bill when I was still part of a national revival ministry called OneCry and Bill was on our advisory board. I have always admired Bill's tender heart for the Lord and people. 

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In this podcast, Pastor Thomas Wilson of the Word of Faith Church in Grand Rapids shares how through prayer and listening to and obeying God's call, his church has been experiencing new life. He also shares how pastors can get burned out and hopeless and what steps they need to take to revive their own hearts. Finally, Pastor Wilson shares his hope for revival to come to our area and nation, but on God's timetable, not ours.

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Marcia Hekman, my wife of 47+ years talks about how true revival needs to start in us, and that the spark for it often comes through a sense of desperation and need. One place that can be felt is in a marriage where relational pain can lead us to find God's love that is miraculous and life-changing.

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"A disciple is someone who moves towards their bankruptcy, towards their poverty, towards their need for God." The words of Pastor Rod Van Solkema. Rod, the lead pastor of Crossroads Bible Church in Grand Rapids, also tells us what his hopes are for revival of The Church of greater Grand Rapids. He mentions Billy Graham's perspectives from years ago about our area as a "sleeping giant." You will find Rod's perspectives refreshingly real and life-giving.

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