The Wake-Up Call

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,...

- - - - - - - P.S. Are You Coming to the New Room Conference? I’d love to see you at the New Room Conference, coming up next month on Sept 30–Oct 2 in Montgomery, Alabama, at Frazer Church. New Room is always an inspiring, refreshing gathering where we get to connect with fellow sowers. It is a meeting with Jesus, where we are equipped, empowered, and sent out to sow for a great awakening.  Today,...

- - - - - - - P. S. ❗️ Are You Coming to the New Room Conference? I’d love to see you at the New Room Conference, coming up next month on Sept 30–Oct 2 in Montgomery, Alabama, at Frazer Church. New Room is always an inspiring, refreshing gathering where we get to connect with fellow sowers. It is a meeting with Jesus, where we are equipped, empowered, and sent out to sow for a great awakening.  T...

This episode tells the story of Cheryl Willoughby, a church volunteer in rural Georgia who helps serve a monthly free community lunch. One day, she met a young woman living with stage four cervical cancer who opened up immediately about her diagnosis and her fear of death. Cheryl prayed with her, but left the encounter feeling burdened that she had not asked more about her faith. When the woman re...

P.S. Are You Coming to the New Room Conference? I’d love to see you at the New Room Conference, coming up next month on Sept 30–Oct 2 in Montgomery, AL, at Frazer Church. New Room is always an inspiring and refreshing gathering where we get to connect with fellow sowers. It is a meeting with Jesus, where we are equipped, empowered, and sent out to sow for a great awakening.  Today, the Wake-Up Cal...

Join Matt LeRoy as he takes listeners through this controversial story involving Jesus and a Canaanite woman. Our story today appears to show Jesus insulting an outsider and comparing her to a dog. What did Jesus mean? Are readers supposed to assume that there are outsiders in God's kingdom, like the original Christians believed? Matt LeRoy gives a thoughtful alternative theory to what is really g...

Will you answer the call when Jesus asks you to lay everything down to follow him? Join Matt LeRoy as he gives a thoughtful explanation on the response Jesus gives that, at first glance, appears cold, but upon further explanation gives the clearest explanation of the commitment we must make as followers of Jesus: to surrender all. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sing along with us! ► https:/...

This episode centers on Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, with a focus on the Beatitudes and the call to be salt and light in the world. Matt LeRoy presents the sermon as a revolutionary vision of kingdom life—one that upends worldly power, challenges status quo thinking, and invites listeners into a countercultural way of living marked by humility, mercy, purity, peacemaking, and courage...

Matthew 4, where Jesus calls Peter, Andrew, James, and John to leave their nets and follow him. He connects that passage to a story from his own life about a friend whose repeated “not yet” became a public yes through baptism, using it to show how surrender can become faith in action. The main message is that discipleship is not just believing ideas about Jesus, but reorienting your whole life aro...

This episode centers on a Holy Spirit story from Dan's wife, Anita Wilt, who describes feeling prompted to respond to an older man selling a newspaper for homeless neighbors at a parking lot red light. Instead of staying in the car and dismissing the inconvenience, she turned around, parked, walked over, bought the paper, and gave him extra money. What stood out most to her was not just the act of...

P. S. Remember Luann Riley and James. . . . ??? ❗️ I know! I'm hearing from so many. When can we have Luann Riley back on the Wake-Up Call? I'm working on it. Meanwhile have I got a deal for you. We really want to see her James Bible Study for Women land in as many groups as possible. To the end, we have a special offer. Order a minimum four books and use the code WOMEN and we will give you 50% o...

This episode is centered on a short teaching about prayer as “speaking like God speaks,” beginning with Genesis 1 and the phrase “let there be.” J.D. Walt argues that prayer is not only asking God for help, but also joining God’s creative speech over dark, empty, or difficult situations. He encourages listeners to pray with simple, faith-filled words like “let there be light,” “let there be peace,...

This episode is a prayer-centered reflection on Genesis 1:1–3 and the idea that prayer begins with faith in God’s creative action, not with rehearsing problems. J.D. argues that people often magnify what is “formless, empty, darkness, deep,” while Scripture starts with God’s ordering presence and the Spirit hovering over chaos. From that foundation, he presents prayer as “world-making speech”—spea...

This episode is a devotional teaching on prayer as spiritual battle, centered on Acts 2 and Psalm 110:1. J.D. Walt argues that prayer is not mainly about reciting personal requests, but about joining Jesus in his ongoing intercession and participating in his victory over Satan, evil, sin, death, and darkness. He frames prayer as a way of aligning with the mind of Christ, advancing God’s kingdom, a...

This episode is a prayer-centered devotional that opens a new mini-series focused on living with a deeper awareness of Jesus’s presence. J.D. reads from Acts 1:4–11 and reflects on the ascension of Jesus as the foundation for Christian prayer, emphasizing that prayer is not sending thoughts “out there,” but speaking directly to the risen Christ who is “right here, right now.” He frames the ascensi...

This episode is a warm, prayerful invitation to live with greater awareness of the Holy Spirit in everyday life. Dan Wilt opens with encouragement around the Wake-Up Call community, a coming New Room gathering, and a new women’s Bible study from Luann Riley called Growing Up. He then frames the episode around 1 Peter 2:9 and a Holy Spirit story centered on the idea that God often works through ord...

P.S. Get Your Copy of Growing Up Hey, Sower Nation! In celebration of launch week of Growing Up: Faith Lessons from the Book of James—and with hopes of sowing this good seed in as many places as possible—we are offering a deal for groups doing the study. Use the code WOMEN for 50% off orders of at least four books. And, remember, the videos come included with the books. Order here: https://my.seed...

P.S. Get Your Copy of Growing Up Hey, Sower Nation! In celebration of launch week of Growing Up: Faith Lessons from the Book of James—and with hopes of sowing this good seed in as many places as possible—we are offering a deal for groups doing the study. Use the code WOMEN for 50% off orders of at least four books. And, remember, the videos come included with the books. Order at: https://my.seedbe...

In this episode, the central message is that faith is meant to be lived, not just heard. Drawing from the book of James, the conversation explores how Scripture acts like a mirror, revealing the condition of our hearts and inviting us to respond with real transformation. The episode also reflects on the relationship between guilt, shame, and grace, emphasizing that God's love calls us to change th...

This episode centers on James 1:2–4 and the idea that faith is strengthened through trials, not protected from them. Luann teaches that hardship is not a sign of weak faith or God’s absence, but often the place where perseverance, maturity, and wholeness are formed. She uses memorable imagery—“potato chip faith” versus “beef jerky faith”—to show the difference between a fragile faith that crumbles...

This episode opens with Luann Riley introducing herself and framing the week’s teaching around the book of James. She explains that her new study, Growing Up Faith: Lessons from James, focuses on spiritual maturity not as becoming more impressive, but as becoming more surrendered. Using James 1:1 and 1:22, she emphasizes that real faith is not just listening to God’s word, but living it out throug...

Dan Wilt introduces a Holy Spirit story from pastor John Shaul, who describes an encounter at a veterinary emergency clinic. While waiting with his own dog, John and his wife connected with a worried couple whose cat needed urgent care. Drawing on their shared experience of losing beloved pets, John felt prompted to offer prayer. The couple welcomed it, and John prayed for comfort, peace, and wisd...

This episode closes out the Mark series with a strong focus on the resurrection of Jesus from Mark 16. J.D. walks through the empty tomb, the angel’s message that Jesus has risen, and why the resurrection is the center of the Christian faith. He argues that without the resurrection, Jesus would be just another historical figure, but because he lives, his life, teaching, death, and victory over sin...

This episode centers on Mark 15 and a theological reflection on the crowd’s cry to crucify Jesus. J.D. argues that the real danger of a crowd is shared power without personal responsibility, and uses Barabbas and Pilate to show how injustice can be diffused into everyone and therefore no one. The message then turns personal: salvation by grace through faith begins when a person steps out of the cr...

If you've ever wondered why carrying the cross feels lighter with faith, this episode reveals the divine promise that Jesus’s yoke is easy—and how love, service, and prayer are the keys to carrying it with joy. This episode is a testament to the timeless message: when we embrace the cross with love and service, burdens become blessings and joy becomes contagious. J.D. breaks down the spiritual sig...