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David Ravenhill (1942–present). Born in 1942 in England, David Ravenhill is a Christian evangelist, author, and teacher, the son of revivalist Leonard Ravenhill. Raised in a devout household, he graduated from Bethany Fellowship Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met and married Nancy in 1963. He worked with David Wilkerson’s Teen Challenge in New York City and served six years with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), including two in Papua New Guinea. From 1973 to 1988, he pastored at New Life Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, a prominent church. Returning to the U.S. in 1988, he joined Kansas City Fellowship under Mike Bickle, then pastored in Gig Harbor, Washington, from 1993 to 1997. Since 1997, he has led an itinerant ministry, teaching globally, including at Brownsville Revival School of Ministry, emphasizing spiritual maturity and devotion to Christ. He authored For God’s Sake Grow Up!, The Jesus Letters, and Blood Bought, urging deeper faith. Now in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, he preaches, stating, “The only way to grow up spiritually is to grow down in humility.”
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In this sermon, the speaker tells a story about a woman who experiences different emotions throughout her life. She starts off feeling content and joyful after getting married and having a baby. However, tragedy strikes when her baby falls ill and she realizes that the child is going to die. The speaker uses this story to illustrate how sin and the enemy can dirty and tear us apart, but God still sees our value. He emphasizes that the Gospel is the answer to our brokenness and that Jesus came to heal and restore us. The sermon concludes with a reference to a Bible verse about having a clean heart and a washed body.
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It's wonderful to be in the presence of God. We have the assurance that we're two or three again that he's here in our midst. We thank you this morning for so great a service. He said he chose this. Maybe one day she was making her way through the marketplace or maybe it was again the sadness of their life which he said if he can do bringing Jesus and his begins when we acknowledge that we're a sinner. Jesus again, here she is totally broken. Then I think those tears possibly turn again to experience maybe you are always compared to a brother that was smarter. There under the turmoil of life, so great an impact.
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David Ravenhill (1942–present). Born in 1942 in England, David Ravenhill is a Christian evangelist, author, and teacher, the son of revivalist Leonard Ravenhill. Raised in a devout household, he graduated from Bethany Fellowship Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met and married Nancy in 1963. He worked with David Wilkerson’s Teen Challenge in New York City and served six years with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), including two in Papua New Guinea. From 1973 to 1988, he pastored at New Life Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, a prominent church. Returning to the U.S. in 1988, he joined Kansas City Fellowship under Mike Bickle, then pastored in Gig Harbor, Washington, from 1993 to 1997. Since 1997, he has led an itinerant ministry, teaching globally, including at Brownsville Revival School of Ministry, emphasizing spiritual maturity and devotion to Christ. He authored For God’s Sake Grow Up!, The Jesus Letters, and Blood Bought, urging deeper faith. Now in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, he preaches, stating, “The only way to grow up spiritually is to grow down in humility.”