Revival & Holiness

Why the Church is growing everywhere and changing almost nowhere — and what real revival actually looks like.

Series 1 · Article 1

The Church Is Full and the Land Is Still Dark

Series 1 · Article 2

Crowds Are Not Revival

Series 1 · Article 3

Revival Begins With Tears, Not Applause

Series 1 · Article 4

What Comes Before, During and After Real Revival

Series 1 · Article 5

Africa's Forgotten Fires: What the Continent's Revivals Teach Us

Series 1 · Article 6

The Season Nigeria Came Closest: Lessons From the Civil War Revival

Series 1 · Article 7

When Stolen Goods Went Back: Restitution as a Mark of Revival

Series 1 · Article 8

Why God Will Not Pour Out His Spirit on a Satisfied Church

Series 1 · Article 9

Edwards or Finney: Does God Send Revival, or Do We Prepare for It?

Series 1 · Article 10

Where Are Our Prophets?

The comfortable habits, shortcuts and quiet compromises that keep revival from ever starting.

Series 2 · Article 1

The Comfort Trap: When Every Service Must Make You Happy

Series 2 · Article 2

Quick-Quick Christianity: Why Instant Answers Kill Conviction

Series 2 · Article 3

Praying Loud and Praying Wrong

Series 2 · Article 4

The Offering That Became a Transaction

Series 2 · Article 5

Ten Thousand Churches and No One Accountable

Series 2 · Article 6

Oil, Handkerchiefs and Charms

Series 2 · Article 7

Gifts Without Fruit

Series 2 · Article 8

The Grace That Excuses Sin

What biblical holiness actually is — and the popular teachings that have taught believers to expect defeat instead.

Series 3 · Article 1

Holiness Is Beautiful

Series 3 · Article 2

Perfect Does Not Mean Flawless

Series 3 · Article 3

Holiness Is Not a Dress Code

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Holiness Is Not for a Few Special Believers

Series 3 · Article 5

Pardon and Purity: Two Pillars Under One Bridge

Series 3 · Article 6

"We Are All Sinners": Is That What the Bible Calls Believers?

Series 3 · Article 7

The Fiction of Imputed Holiness

Series 3 · Article 8

The Teaching That Taught Us to Expect Defeat

Series 3 · Article 9

Discipline Is Good, But It Cannot Make You Holy

Series 3 · Article 10

God Does Not Command the Impossible

A personal series on the inward work: pride, the mixed heart, falling forward, and what it costs to go all the way with God.

Series 4 · Article 1

Born Again but Unfinished

Series 4 · Article 2

"Search Me, God": The Prayer Most of Us Avoid

Series 4 · Article 3

Filled With the Spirit: What the Fullness Is For

Series 4 · Article 4

Sins and Sin: Two Problems, Two Cures

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After the Honeymoon: Meeting the Ugly Pride Within

Series 4 · Article 6

The Mixed Heart: Why Joy and Anger Live in the Same Person

Series 4 · Article 7

The Hen, the Calf and the Wagon: A Farmer Who Learned His Own Heart

Series 4 · Article 8

Falling Forward: What to Do When You Fail on the Highway

Series 4 · Article 9

Do Not Copy Someone Else's Testimony

Series 4 · Article 10

You Have a Part: God and the Believer Working Together

Series 4 · Article 11

Cleansing First, Then Power

Series 4 · Article 12

The Price Few Will Pay

Where holiness is tested — in money, offense, pride, prayer and the small daily choices no one else sees.

Series 5 · Article 1

Where Pride Hides: A Long List of Hiding Places

Series 5 · Article 2

Offended Again: How Small Slights Show the Heart

Series 5 · Article 3

Serving Under Your Former Student

Series 5 · Article 4

Envy, Selfishness and the Love of Praise: Three Quiet Failures

Series 5 · Article 5

Who Is Your Isaac?

Series 5 · Article 6

Your Money Is Not Your Own

Series 5 · Article 7

It Is Not a Three-Minute Prayer

Series 5 · Article 8

Giving Up the Right to Yourself

Series 5 · Article 9

The Limits We Set on God

Series 5 · Article 10

What Is the Spirit Convicting You About These Days?

What revival asks of leaders, churches and nations — and where it finally leads.

Series 6 · Article 1

Seven Steps Toward the Revival We Need

Series 6 · Article 2

Hot, Cold or Lukewarm? The Honest Answer

Series 6 · Article 3

When Curses and Oil Replace the Gospel: The Return of Old Practices

Series 6 · Article 4

Decreeing and Commanding: When Prayer Stops Asking

Series 6 · Article 5

Reformation Before Revival

Series 6 · Article 6

The Revival That Lasted Fifty Years

Series 6 · Article 7

Gather the People: Why Revival Needs a Sacred Assembly

Series 6 · Article 8

Voices That Mesmerize, Lives That Do Not Match

Series 6 · Article 9

From Revival to the Ends of the Earth

Series 6 · Article 10

The Face That Shines: What Revival Is Finally For

The objections people actually raise about holiness teaching, answered honestly and one at a time.

Series 7 · Article 1

Is Living Without Sin Really Possible?

Series 7 · Article 2

Isn't Romans 7 the Normal Christian Life?

Series 7 · Article 3

Does Feeling Tempted Mean I Have Failed?

Series 7 · Article 4

I Failed Again. Am I a Backslider?

Series 7 · Article 5

Is Deeper Cleansing a Second Salvation?

Series 7 · Article 6

If I Am Forgiven, Why Do I Still Need to Confess?

Series 7 · Article 7

Is This Teaching Salvation by Works?

Series 7 · Article 8

Is This Only for Methodists?

Series 7 · Article 9

Will Holiness Make Me Joyless?

Series 7 · Article 10

Where Do I Start If No One Around Me Lives This?

Ten men and women of holiness and revival whose lives Professor Maxey draws on, and what they still have to teach us.

Series 8 · Article 1

John Wesley: The Man Who Asked for a Clean Heart

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William Booth: A Fire for the Forgotten

Series 8 · Article 3

Samuel Brengle: The Prophet of Holiness

Series 8 · Article 4

Hannah Whitall Smith: The Quaker Who Wrote About Happiness

Series 8 · Article 5

Andrew Murray: A Revival of Holiness

Series 8 · Article 6

Rees Howells: Five Days to Say Yes

Series 8 · Article 7

William Seymour: Fruit Before Tongues

Series 8 · Article 8

Garrick Braide: The Niger Delta's Fire

Series 8 · Article 9

Festo Kivengere: Revival and Forgiveness

Series 8 · Article 10

Leonard Ravenhill: The Man Who Asked for Prophets