Initial Post

Well, I'm jumping into the world of blogging and the first challenge was the name of the blog. General enough to cover a wealth of topics, individual enough to be available, words to focus the blog and point it down a useful path.
So, "Echoes of Ravenhill."
A.W. Tozer said of Leonard Ravenhill that he was one of God's specialists. Equating Ravenhill to the one man a company might employ to spring into action when the equipment went down. Recalling the ministries of Elijah, Jeremiah and Malachi, Tozer said that Ravenhill was the man God used to spring into action when the church 'went down.' Such a description should attach itself to every God-called evangelist in this modern day.
"Those who know Leonard Ravenhill will recognize in him the religious specialist, the man sent from God not to carry on the conventional work of the church, but to beard the priests of Baal on their own mountaintop, to shame the careless priest at the altar, to face the false prophet and warn the people who are being led astray by him." (Tozer, in his introduction to Ravenhill's Why Revival Tarries, p. 12 of the Bethany House 1991 edition)
Leonard Ravenhill was an English-born evangelist who preached hard to the churches of England and America and ended his days in Lindale, Texas. I discovered him through his little book Why Revival Tarries. His boldness came from his unction of the Lord, and it would be my fondest wish to be so filled and so used. My use of his name is with the greatest respect and with the intention that this blog should always have a point to it.
So. My first post.