5 Ways To Weigh a Preacher’s Words

How many sermons have you heard in your life? How many have you heard in the last year? How many were memorable? How many left an eternal mark inside of you adding to the very makeup of your being? Leonard Ravenhill said to his son, “Be careful when you preach, because if you don’t have a word...

The Lightnings of God: Thinking like John G. Lake

“The lightnings of God went through me…” This is how John G. Lake almost always described the power of God that lived in him, moved through him, and utterly possessed him. “God Almighty can look out of your eyes, and every devil that was ever in hell could not look in the eyes...

Speaking in Tongues — Is it The Initial Evidence of Holy Spirit Baptism?

by Stevie B Recently, Dave Edwards and myself recorded a podcast on this very subject.  This entry will probably post on Fire Press before or around the same time I’ve finished editing and publishing the episode to our podcast feed.   The reason I am posting this is because I’d like to share...

Demonstrating The Gospel

“The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity but a new demonstration.” ~Leonard Ravenhill “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom,...

Are You a Microwave?

A friend of mine recently preached a very thought provoking message on “frequencies”.  It got my attention so much that I decided to do my own investigation and started Googling “the stuff that he was taking about”. Minutes turned into hours, and hours into days, and days into about 1 week.  Since...

Raising the Dead

This is an article I wrote in 2006. I have wanted to post it on Fire On Your Head for some time, but I have failed to do so because of the intensity of its content. I am on a journey to be a revelation of the things to come, even calling souls from death into life. Resurrection is our identity as believers...

The Great Commission: Words and Power

“Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,...

The Dew of Heaven

In worship at church lately God has really been pointing out the theme of Heaven coming to earth. If you follow our blog,you may have noticed that my last several post have been on this. It’s as if the more He shares with me on the the matter, the more I now have of the perspective and capacity to peer...

Don’t Downplay the Power of Pentecost

by J. Lee Grady Pentecost is Sunday, May 23. Here are four reasons we should celebrate the Spirit’s outpouring. I’ve often wondered why we tend to ignore the historic events of Acts 2. We celebrate Christmas for weeks, and we pack as many people as possible into our churches on Easter Sunday. But...

The Spirit and The Word

“For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.” (1 John 5:7-8) “We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.” (John 9:4, ESV) Before proceeding in the direction I’d like to...