Leonard Ravenhill: Voice in the Wilderness

Biography of Prayer, Power, and Perseverance

By: Michael Yeager

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In 1907, a man walked home from a meeting in Leeds, England, and wept by the fireplace because he had been in the presence of God. His young son watched. And the fire was passed.
Leonard Ravenhill: Voice in the Wilderness traces the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most uncompromising prophetic voices — from a working-class childhood in Yorkshire to the prayer rooms of East Texas, where he spent his final years pouring fire into a new generation.

Drawing on Ravenhill's own recorded sermons, personal interviews, and primary sources, Dr. Michael H. Yeager brings to life the man behind the famous quotes: the teenage convert who walked the aisle at fourteen and never looked back; the Cliff College student mentored by Samuel Chadwick; the wartime evangelist who saw sinners rush the altars in bombed-out English cities; the author who wrote Why Revival Tarries and watched it convict the church for over six decades; the friend and mentor of A.W. Tozer, David Wilkerson, and Keith Green; and the old prophet who, at eighty-seven, burned hotter for God than at any point in his life.

This is not a sanitized tribute. It is the story of a man consumed — consumed by the holiness of God, consumed by grief over a sleeping church, consumed by the conviction that prayer is the only hope for a dying world. It is the story of the men and women who burned alongside him, from Praying Hyde to Duncan Campbell, from John Sung to the sixteen-year-old boy who prayed until the glory fell. And it is an altar call — a direct, unflinching challenge to every reader who has ever wondered whether the fire of God is still available. It is.

The question on Ravenhill's tombstone is still waiting for your answer:
Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?