Today is a great day for our family. Kathy and I held our new grandson minutes after he was born… how amazing it is to hold a brand new life in your hands!

Everything’s a blur of activity here at World Revival Church as we gear up for the live simulcast with Daystar tonight. This is a complicated broadcast from a technical perspective and both Daystar’s team in Texas and our media department in Kansas City are working overtime to make sure everything flows smoothly!
 

Another night of global revival last Friday night at World Revival Church, airing live to over 200 nations through the “umph” of Daystar’s satellites, plus our live streaming from Kansas City that goes out to the world. How can I describe the feeling of coming from being a small-town pastor (532 people) to a position of speaking to millions? It’s mind-boggling at the very least, and extremely humbling at the most.
 

I was in college during the Vietnam War.  The draft came up, and I barely squeaked by having my number called.  My birthdate was the next one on the list in my county, but fortunately they filled their quota with young soldiers born just the day before I was. I knew some guys who didn’t want to take a chance, so they pretended to be pacifists and snuck over the border to Canada. 
 

Occasionally, a pastor, or just a desperate church person will ask me, “What’s stopping revival in my church?” I think it can have a lot to do with an inaccurate definition of revival.

There are a lot of religious definitions out there that have nothing to do with Biblical revival.

For instance, revival is NOT a twice yearly scheduled event with an out of town speaker brought in to pump up the people. When he leaves town, generally the excitement goes with him and it is back to the religious status quo until his next visit.