Book Review: The Calvary Road

THECALVARYROAD

Book Review

Can a book 70 years old be the exact message the church needs to hear in 2021? Th at is the question I pondered as I picked up my copy of Roy Hession’s 70 page book “Calvary Road.” What I quickly discovered was a concise treasure trove of truth that cuts to the heart of the confusion of our generation.

Chapter one reveals that the beginning of revival is our brokenness. Our primary problem is not a pandemic, the failures of our national leaders or any outside force. Our primary problem is our own irritable, envious, resentful, critical and worried selfi sh nature that refuses to take responsibility and bow the knee to God.

Th e book continues to explain what revival is: an overfl ow of the Holy Spirit working in and through our lives. Once we surrender to God and allow Him to break us, there is a room in our hearts and lives for the Holy Spirit to come in and overfl ow to others. Breaking and the fi lling of the Holy Spirit is a perpetual need and ongoing process.

Each chapter builds off the previous, helping the reader to understand that revival is not in the dramatic experience, but in a daily reality of life with Jesus. Roy Hession speaks in a very direct manner that is not diffi cult to understand and makes sense to a heart searching for hope in Jesus.

In a world that pressures us to do something to change our world, Roy Hession reminds us that Jesus calls us to be with him. And that lasting world change begins in me. His book brings us back to the cross, puts us back on our knees as we are lovingly invited to crawl up that road of selfsacrifi ce with Jesus. Th is is our intimate journey of life and victory: the calvary road.

Rev. Nathan Williamson is the senior pastor of Covenant in Morgantown, WV.