The Wake-Up Call

Come hear from Amy at the New Room Conference Sept 30 - Oct 2 In-Person Tickets: https://seedbed.com/newroomconference2026/ Virtual Livestream Tickets: https://seedbed.com/nrc26-livestream/ - - - - - - - This episode is a wide-ranging conversation between JD Walt and Amy Orr-Ewing about public theology, awakening, and the holiness of God. Amy explains her work as a preacher and public theologian,...

- - - - - - - P. S. ❗️ Check Out the Revival Town Podcast Some months back I was graced to be a guest on one of my favorite podcasts—The Revival Town Podcast hosted by Chuck Tate and Andy King. We talked about Romans. As a hat tip, I wore the hat Chuck recently sent me with the number 41. I speak in the podcast today of what that is all about. Anyhow I link the podcast here where you can watch on...

- - - - - - - This episode focuses on Romans 4:13–17 and uses Abraham and Sarah’s story to show that God’s promise comes by faith, not by law or human ability. JD emphasizes that Abraham and Sarah were, in practical terms, beyond hope—old, childless, and “as good as dead”—yet God chose them anyway to demonstrate that He is the God who gives life to the dead and calls things into being. The episode...

- - - - - - - P. S. ❗️ Can't Make it to the New Room Conference? Join Us Online for the New Room Conference! Can’t make the trip in person from Sept 30–Oct 2? You can experience the entire New Room Conference right from home. Join us online for an inspiring time of connection and worship as we are equipped to sow for a great awakening. I’d love to gather with you virtually—register for the livest...

- - - - - - - This episode is a devotional wake-up call centered on Romans 4 and the difference between knowing what we believe and truly knowing who we believe. JD Walt explains the gospel as something far deeper than mental agreement: it is being credited with righteousness we did not earn, like receiving a passing grade, a pardon, or a debt paid in full by someone else. He challenges listeners...

- - - - - - - P. S. ❗️ Can't Make it to the New Room Conference? Join Us Online for the New Room Conference! Can’t make the trip in person from Sept 30–Oct 2? You can experience the entire New Room Conference right from home. Join us online for an inspiring time of connection and worship as we are equipped to sow for a great awakening. I’d love to gather with you virtually—register for the livest...

This episode centers on the theme of grace, using the hymn “Marvelous Grace” as a starting point to reflect on God’s ability to hear, understand, and respond to us even when our prayers or words are imperfect. JD Walt and his father sing together and talk about how Jesus is already with believers, going before them, walking beside them, and cleaning up behind them. The tone is warm, devotional, an...

- - - - - - - P. S. ❗️Have You Downloaded the Jesus Manifesto? Here's the link to the Romans 12 Jesus Manifesto PDF in case you missed it: https://seedbed.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Romans-12-The-Jesus-Manifesto.pdf P.S.S. Are You Coming to the New Room Conference? I’d love to see you at the New Room Conference, coming up on Sept 30–Oct 2 in Montgomery, Alabama, at Frazer Church. New Room is...

- - - - - - - P. S. The Jesus Manifesto PDF  RE-MEMBERIZE ROMANS 12:3: For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.  Here's the link to the Romans 12 Jesus Manifesto PDF in case you missed it: https://seedbed.com/wp-content/...

Most people think the gospel is about fixing bad behavior. Romans 3 says the real problem is much deeper than that—and if you miss it, you miss everything. J. D. Walt breaks open Paul’s hardest-hitting diagnosis of sin and shows why the only honest prayer may be the simplest one: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." What follows is not a self-improvement pep talk, but a wak...

- - - - - - - P. S. ❗️ Can't Make it to the New Room Conference? Join Us Online for the New Room Conference! Can’t make the trip in person from Sept 30–Oct 2? You can experience the entire New Room Conference right from home. Join us online for an inspiring time of connection and worship as we are equipped to sow for a great awakening. I’d love to gather with you virtually—register for the livest...

The difference between performing for God and truly belonging to Him changes everything. J. D, Walt unpacks Romans 2 and the stunning phrase "circumcision of the heart by the Spirit"—a picture of surrender, healing, and a new identity that cannot be faked. If you have been trying to hold it all together, prove yourself, or live from the pressure of achievement, this episode speaks straight to that...

This episode is a morning devotional centered on Romans 12 and Romans 2, where JD Walt calls listeners to consecration, mind renewal, and surrender to Jesus before moving into a strong warning against self-righteousness. He emphasizes that the law is meant to reveal our need for God, not to fuel moral superiority, and he contrasts true transformation with image management, hypocrisy, and religious...

The episode centers on the tension between law, legalism, and true spiritual transformation. JD argues that focusing on endless rules and behavior management misses the heart of the gospel: the capital-L law of love, which calls people to love God and neighbor rather than merely manage sin. He opens with a consecration prayer, reads from Romans 2, and uses the passage to show that hearing the law...

JD Walt reflects on “Sin Swamp” through Romans 2, arguing that sin is deeper than bad behavior or breaking rules. He frames it as a failure to love God, ourselves, and others—a relational breakdown that damages people, creation, and our connection with God. In this view, God’s wrath is not vindictive anger, but righteous opposition to whatever destroys the love and life he created. He then turns t...

This episode centers on Romans 2:1–4 and the idea that God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience are what lead people to repentance. Rather than treating repentance as mere behavior management or “trying harder,” the message reframes it as a change of mind and a turning of the heart toward Jesus. J.D. uses the story behind Chris Tomlin’s song “Kindness” to illustrate how surprising and transformat...

This episode centers on a devotional reading of Romans 1:24–32, where J.D. Walt draws a strong distinction between “sins” and “sin.” He argues that the passage is not just a list of individual moral failures, but a diagnosis of a deeper condition: humanity’s exchange of the truth about God for lies and created things. From there, he frames the gospel as beginning with God, not with sin, and says t...

This episode is a wake-up call from Romans 1:18–23, contrasting the “burning house” of sin with the “burning bush” of God’s presence and the power of the gospel. J. D. Walt emphasizes that while sin is real and destructive, Christians should not let it dominate their attention; instead, the true focus must remain on Jesus, whose salvation is comprehensive and life-renovating. Through prayer, Scrip...

This episode centers on a warm, devotional gathering built around Romans 1:16–17 and the hymn “Amazing Grace.” J.D. Walt opens by welcoming family and guests, framing the day as a “red letter” morning of worship rather than a performance. He emphasizes that the gospel is not about being a “good” person, but about the deeper reality of being dead and made alive, broken and restored, lost and found....

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What does it look like when ordinary people actually live as witnesses of Jesus? Dan Wilt closes out Holy Spirit Story Summer with a commissioning message that turns everyday moments - coffee shops, hospital rooms, roadside prayers, grocery stores, and senior living hallways - into evidence that the Holy Spirit is still moving powerfully through normal lives. Dan reflects on more than 100 stories...

This special edition of the Wake-Up Call presents a direct invitation to follow Jesus. It frames the gospel through John 3:16 and retells Jesus’s life, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension, and the birth of the church. The message emphasizes that the central human problems are sin and death—and that Jesus offers forgiveness, restored relationship with God, and eternal life. J.D. invites listen...

J.D. Walt introduces a three-day on-ramp to the upcoming thirteen-week journey through Romans. Centering on Romans 12, he frames the Christian life as a daily movement of consecration—offering ourselves to God, transformation—renewing our minds through Christ and Scripture, and demonstration—living God’s love out in the world. He calls Romans 12 “the Jesus Manifesto,” describing it as a picture of...

Romans is not just a book to study. It is a letter meant to awaken a people. J.D. Walt opens the doorway to a thirteen-week journey through Paul’s most consequential writing and shows why reading Romans as relationship, not just theology, changes everything. As the Wake-Up Call shifts into a new season, J.D. invites listeners to see the church in Rome not as a tiny house-church in a massive city,...