Why Revival Tarries

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Summary: Do Not Preach Until You've Read This Book
Review: Anything written by Leonard Ravenhill is a must for any preacher or lay person. Powerful, compelling and challenging. If you are called to preach this message, you must read this book!!!!

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Summary: a burning message from a burning heart!
Review: I have read many christian books in the past, but this stands out. Bro Leonard did not beat about the bush. The chapters are short enough to be read in about fifteen minutes, but they are so packed that each may take you two solid hours to read. Every chapter is thought-provoking. Since I got the book in 1984, I have read it more than 30 times! And each time, it appears as if I never read it before. If you would read this book, be ready to end up upon your knees!

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Summary: What a powerful book
Review: Leonard Ravenhill pulls no punches in this revival classic. He calls things as they are and challenges the reader to seek God with their whole heart and to deal with their sin in their life. He challenges ministers to be a voice no longer an echo. I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: Holy Praying Prophets
Review: Leonard Ravenhill summons holy praying prophets to rise up in this gem. He calls for a life that is without compromise, being set apart for the Lord. He calls for people to go deep in prayer, and often. He calls for prophets to rise up and speak a message accompanied only with the unction of the Spirit.

Just on a side note, this book is a little old. Communism is still a very real threat at the time of the writing. Also, Ravenhill condemns evangelists of his day for buying "$3 steaks." That tells you how old this book must be :) If somebody knows where I can buy a steak for 3 bucks, drop me a line...shoot, drop me a line if you know where I can go out and eat steak for under 10 bucks :)

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Summary: One of the most convicting books I have ever read.
Review: My husband was given a copy of "Why Revival Tarries" and "Revival Praying" when he joined a men's Bible Institute several years ago at a Baptist Church that we were in at that time. My husband read the book and would read certain passages out loud to me and I couldn't wait to read the books myself. We both have the books well underlined in several places and I have purchased the book since then for several people. A few years before we read these two books, I was listening to a Christian radio station on my way to a friends house. The preacher I heard on the radio was so powerful, that I literally had to pull over to the side of the road. The preacher was Leonard Ravenhill. He was preaching on America and television, etc. and he was so right about what he said about Christianity today. I beleive this is a life changing book and should be read by every Christan. Each time I reread the book, I am convicted again and long to be the Christian he speaks about and would love to see that kind of revival take place in our churces. You will never be the same once you have read what this tremendous man of God has said.

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Summary: A book sure to afflict the comfortable; buy it!
Review: This fascinating book was originally published in 1959 by British evangelist Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994). In it, Rev. Ravenhill launches a fiery attack on the complacency and drowsiness of the modern Protestant Church. He calls for prayer, fervent and unceasing prayer.

This book is not for those who like their Christianity academic and dispassionate. Rev. Ravenhill blazes through this book like the fire-and-brimstone preachers of yesteryear, calling for "hell-shaking prayer." This is a book sure to afflict the comfortable; buy it!