The Wake-Up Call

We're preparing for another year of sowing! Help keep the Wake-Up Call free for everyone by sponsoring a day. https://seedbed.com/springsowing - - - - - - - In this episode, JD Walt reflects on the concept of prayer, emphasizing its depth beyond mere requests for help. He explores the Greek term "proshu komahi," which means to interact with God by exchanging human wishes for divine ideas through f...

Join J. D. Walt as he welcomes Luann Riley, a passionate preacher and author, who shares her transformative journey from rebellion to faith. Discover how Luann turned her life's chaos into a compelling ministry, offering practical insights from the Book of James. This episode is perfect for anyone seeking to deepen their spiritual journey and embrace authentic faith. Tune in for an inspiring conve...

Grace brought the greatest justice through the gravest injustice: the death of Jesus. Peace brought the greatest victory from the gravest loss: the resurrection of Jesus.

Paul shows us the gospel doesn’t advance by strategic plans but by surrendered servants.

Discipleship requires we learn about the full armor of God by putting it on every day.

We are not responsible to defeat Satan. Satan has already lost. Our calling is to put on the full armor of God and then to stand firm.

What if that’s the way—walking onto the battlefield of the Spirit bearing nothing more or nothing less than the image of God? is the story. Slavery is the fiction.

Freedom in Christ is the story. Slavery is the fiction.

We can’t become perfect parents, but we can become parents of extraordinary grace.

Christian marriage serves as a type of everyday temple where Christ reveals himself through the sacrificial love of husband and wife.

The fruit of surrender is splendor.

The Word of God reveals a model of power that centers around the surrender of control and the reversal of hierarchy.

Human beings, created in the image of God, are made to be inhabited by the Holy Spirit.

What if we are all asleep?

This is not about broken rules but broken people, not condemning labels but creative love.

Sexual sin is sin of another order because of the way it breaks down and fragments our core identity and does damage to the image of God in us.

As image-bearers of the triune God, we are meant to live this graced pattern of life together for the sake of each other and the world.

The effectiveness of our mission to the world is in direct proportion to the quality of our relationships with each other.

We grieve the Holy Spirit when we deny the power of God in our everyday lives.

With our words we can bless or curse, build up or tear down, berate or benefit.

To be created in the image of God means many things, but perhaps the most surprising thing it means is to be vulnerable.

In this episode, Dan Wilt and J. D. engage in a profound conversation about spiritual formation and the power of the Holy Spirit. They explore the history and impact of the Vineyard Movement, emphasizing the importance of living out one's faith actively rather than passively. Through personal stories and reflections, they discuss the transformative power of Jesus in everyday life, encouraging list...

This most essential process of transformation, of becoming a human being who lives and loves like God lives and loves, will not happen apart from other people.

A martyr, in the New Testament sense, is not someone who is going to die for Jesus but someone who has already died with him—and been raised from the dead!

We must learn to take off our masks and meet one another in our places of weakness rather than our strength