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Steve Hill (1954–2014). Born on January 17, 1954, in Ankara, Turkey, to a U.S. military family, Steve Hill grew up in Alabama and spiraled into drug addiction and crime by age nine, facing arrests and near-death from overdoses. Converted on October 28, 1975, at 21 after a Lutheran minister’s prayer, he entered Teen Challenge, mentored by David Wilkerson, and graduated from Wilkerson’s Twin Oaks Academy in Texas, studying under Leonard Ravenhill and Nicky Cruz. Ordained in the Assemblies of God, Hill and his wife, Jeri, whom he met at Twin Oaks, became missionaries in the 1980s, planting churches in Argentina, Spain, and Belarus, where they founded a Teen Challenge center. In 1995, after receiving prayer at Holy Trinity Brompton in London, he sparked the Brownsville Revival at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, on Father’s Day, preaching repentance and drawing over 4 million attendees through 2000, with 150,000 reported conversions. Relocating to Dallas in 2000, he resumed crusades and founded Heartland World Ministries Church in Irving, Texas, in 2003. Hill authored books like Spiritual Avalanche (2013) and Wanted: Extreme Christians (2000). Diagnosed with melanoma in 2007, he died on March 9, 2014, in Orange Beach, Alabama, survived by Jeri and three children, Ryan, Shelby, and Kelsey. He said, “If you’re not winning souls, you’re wasting your time.”
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This sermon addresses the sins of pride, indulgence, neglect of the poor, and abominations committed before God, drawing parallels between the behaviors of Sodom and Gomorrah and the current state of America. The speaker highlights the moral decay and abominable acts witnessed in society, emphasizing the need for repentance and a return to God's ways.
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Ezekiel 16 49 says, look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom. She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, abundance of idleness. Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy. They were haughty and committed abomination before me. Look this way, I know you're viewing from all over the world and you're saying, but brother Steve this doesn't have anything to do with me. I beg your pardon, sir. I've lived all over the world and I've traveled all over the world. I remember walking into Amsterdam and the people saying, don't go past that road right there. And I said, well, what is there? They said, it's the district. And I remember David Wilkerson, who was my spiritual father. He said when he went there to the red light district, to the big circle, to the place where everything goes, anything goes, eat, drink, and be merry. He said when he went through the gates of that area, he started to vomit and he ran as fast as he could the other direction. America, could I speak to you for a minute? Full of pride, lust, stuck on yourself. This is America. And I've been on my knees before and I said, Jesus, when is judgment coming? I remember going to a homosexual rally. Oh, by the way, this is Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodomy. I remember going to a rally and I went there just to view. There must have been a half a million homosexuals. And if you're a homosexual here, I love you. I love everybody. Your sin is an abomination to God. And I remember looking at men sodomizing one another in the grass at the Washington Mall. And then I walked a bit further and two women were embracing one another totally nude. And I went up to the police who were on horseback and I said, sir, that is against the law. And this is what he said, I can't stand it either, but we're just gonna leave them alone and we know they'll go away. I'm not talking about Thailand or Taiwan or another Asian area of the world. I'm talking about America. Abominations. You know what abominations are? Those things that are morally disgusting to God. Sir, let me tell you something. When you lock lips with your gay lover, you are committing an abomination before the Lord. Oh, by the way, I don't need any friends. I asked the pastor the other day, I said, how's it going? He said, fine. I said, what? He said, fine. I said, you mean everything's going great? He said, yeah. I said, what are you preaching? I'm saying that to you, sir, ma'am. What's coming out of your mouth? Jesus said if they hated him, they would hate you. And don't talk to me about crowds. I've seen crowds. I've been in crowds. I've preached in stadiums and arenas. It means nothing. Jesus had the crowds and he said, hey, drink my blood. Eat my flesh. And they said, this is too difficult for us. They basically did this. Stay out of our lives. We enjoy where we're at and what we're doing.
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Steve Hill (1954–2014). Born on January 17, 1954, in Ankara, Turkey, to a U.S. military family, Steve Hill grew up in Alabama and spiraled into drug addiction and crime by age nine, facing arrests and near-death from overdoses. Converted on October 28, 1975, at 21 after a Lutheran minister’s prayer, he entered Teen Challenge, mentored by David Wilkerson, and graduated from Wilkerson’s Twin Oaks Academy in Texas, studying under Leonard Ravenhill and Nicky Cruz. Ordained in the Assemblies of God, Hill and his wife, Jeri, whom he met at Twin Oaks, became missionaries in the 1980s, planting churches in Argentina, Spain, and Belarus, where they founded a Teen Challenge center. In 1995, after receiving prayer at Holy Trinity Brompton in London, he sparked the Brownsville Revival at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, on Father’s Day, preaching repentance and drawing over 4 million attendees through 2000, with 150,000 reported conversions. Relocating to Dallas in 2000, he resumed crusades and founded Heartland World Ministries Church in Irving, Texas, in 2003. Hill authored books like Spiritual Avalanche (2013) and Wanted: Extreme Christians (2000). Diagnosed with melanoma in 2007, he died on March 9, 2014, in Orange Beach, Alabama, survived by Jeri and three children, Ryan, Shelby, and Kelsey. He said, “If you’re not winning souls, you’re wasting your time.”