This is a very powerful audio message that will stir your spirit for revival! This audio message has clips from powerful preachers and theologians including Ian Paisley, Leonard Ravenhill, Paris Reidhead, Duncan Campbell, A.W. Tozer and T. Austin Sparks.

“The church of Jesus Christ is largely sleeping, like a great bedroom, and you have all the Christians in bed and they’re all sleeping … and they’re saying “Please, don’t wake me up! I want to sleep on!” And of course when God starts to operate a revival people cannot sleep, you can’t sleep in church when the Spirit of God awakes the people. Look at the 1st verse of this 52nd chapter…”Awake! Awake! Put on strength!” Wake up! You’re sleepy Christians! Awake thou that sleepeth, Arise from the dead! Christ will give you life!” - Ian Paisley

This is probably one of the most potent and powerful audio recordings I have heard. You will be changed as you listen to this compilation.  May we all seek to serve our Lord and Savior mightily by His power and for His glory!

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It is no doubt that television is the true American Idol.  One commenter on a blog I frequent said it best: if you were to sit down and tally up the amount of time you watch TV and the amount of time you spend in prayer and Bible reading which would be larger?

May we step back and assess our lives and realize that idols are everywhere and can so quickly become our god.  This video presentation should cause all of us to step back and assess….

In a culture where everything in most churches is man-centered the way that we interpret Scripture is often focused primarily on us.  What we must realize is that all of Scripture points to Christ.  The only way to correctly interpret Scripture is to have a Christ-centered focus on the text - for no other reason than that is exactly what Scripture does - it points to Christ!

Jesus most clearly taught that “you search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.”  (John 5:39-40)

Hendryx comments in his paper that “Jesus never condemned a Pharisee for taking Moses too seriously. They take him far less seriously than they should. For Jesus says, “If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for He write of Me. But if you don’t believe His writings, how will you believe My words. Your accuser is Moses.” (John 5:46). So to understand Moses is to come to know Christ when He is revealed. Likewise, Abraham saw Jesus’ day and was glad, the Bible testifies. And “…foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.” (Gal)”

“The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.” - John Calvin

I ran across an excellent article by John Hendryx entitled “Five Errors that Arise from Christ-Replacements” and it’s a must read.  He outlines five examples of doctrinal errors that arise when Christ is unBiblically removed as the key focus of Scripture (which is so terribly common today).

Take some time to read this excellent article over at monergism.com.

Please watch…  this is so true, and so heartbreaking knowing that this is the problem of American Christianity today….

Paul Washer is probably one of my favorite preachers right along with Piper, Noblit and MacArthur.  In this short clip from a missions conference Paul Washer speaks the truth with such passion.  This is a message that must be heard….