Join us for our 2025 spring revival with Dr. Bill and Diane Ury, May 18-21. This is our annual event where we set time apart as the body of Christ to allow the Holy Spirit to refresh, renew, and revive. Bring your family and friends for this exciting time of seeking God together as the body of Christ!
About Our Speakers
Bill and Diane Ury have been married since 1984, and have enjoyed a life of ministry together.
Bill is a 1978 graduate of Asbury University. He studied at the Institute for Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem and has an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary. He holds an MPhil and PhD in Systematic and Historical Theology from Drew University. Bill taught Historical and Systematic Theology at Wesley Biblical Seminary for 23 years. His podcast is The Hour of Holiness. Bill has authored several articles and books, including Trinitarian Personhood: Investigating the Implications of a Relational Definition, The Bearer, and Christology as Theology.
Diane is a 1983 graduate of Asbury University with a BA in Sociology, and holds an MA in Theology from Wesley Biblical Seminary. She has written several articles, and is the editor of Holy Love: Essays in Honor of Dr. M. William Ury. Together, Diane and Bill authored Conversations About Holiness. Diane loves theology, is a teacher, preacher, mentor, and a women’s lives advocate.
Both Bill and Diane are ordained elders in the Evangelical Methodist Church, have pastored together, and have spent decades discipling men and women. They are fully committed to the historic bases and contemporary expressions of consensual orthodox Christianity and the Wesleyan Holiness tradition. Their personal desire is to incorporate sound, rigorous Christian theological thinking with pastoral care, spiritual formation, and true compassion.
After over two decades of serving The Salvation Army, in 2017 they joined National Headquarters and accepted the role of National Ambassadors for Holiness. They reside in North Carolina and are soldiers with the Raleigh International Corps. The Urys have four married children, JoAnna, Maddi, Meredith, and Seth. Their ten grandchildren are their constant joy.
Revival Sermons Playlist
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Thirsting: Recoding Holiness
May 18, 2025 • 37:40
Seeing the face of God, being transformed by the Lord’s holiness. Putting aside all idols. The encounter that Moses had with the Lord. Sermon #1 of the EMC’s 2025 Spring Revival. Series: 2025 Spring Revival Speaker: Bill Ury Scripture: Exodus 34:1-7, 29-35
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Why Are We Thirsty?
May 18, 2025 • 44:51
Sermon #2 of the EMC’s 2025 Spring Revival. Series: 2025 Spring Revival Speaker: Diane Ury Scripture: Genesis 1
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Quenching: We Need Blood and Fire
May 19, 2025 • 47:00
Sermon #3 of the EMC’s 2025 Spring Revival. Series: 2025 Spring Revival Speaker: Bill Ury Scripture: I Thess. 5: 12-24
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His Healing Touch
May 20, 2025 • 48:27
Sermon #4 of the EMC’s 2025 Spring Revival. Series: 2025 Spring Revival Speaker: Diane Ury Scripture: Psalm 103
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Overflowing: Releasing Holiness in a Real World
May 21, 2025 • 43:58
Sermon #5 of the EMC’s 2025 Spring Revival. Series: 2025 Spring Revival Speaker: Bill Ury Scripture: Ezek. 47:3-9; John 7:37-39
Schedule of Events
| Sunday, May 18 | |
| 9:00 am | Joint Sunday school in the chapel with Bill and Diane |
| 10:15 am | Revival worship service |
| 5:30 pm | All church potluck. EMC will provide the meat and drinks. Please bring sides and desserts to share. |
| 6:30 pm | Evening revival service |
| Monday, May 19 | |
| 6:30 pm | Evening revival service |
| Tuesday, May 20 | |
| 6:30 pm | Evening revival & healing service in the chapel |
| Wednesday, May 21 | |
| 5:30 pm | All-church meal with (Firehouse or Jersey Mike’s) in the Friendship Suite. $5/person or $15/family max for sub, chips, and tea. |
| 6:30 pm | Evening revival service |
The scriptures present the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead as a real, unique, and historical event. Nothing in all of human history has impacted and transformed so many billions of lives, yet the original eyewitness accounts reveal just how truly unexpected and unbelievable it was.
The season of Lent is a forty-day period of fasting and prayer that begins on Ash Wednesday and prepares for the feast of Easter. Originally lasting only a week, it became a forty-day season during the 7th century to coincide with the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness. While fasting and penitential works do not save a person, they find their value in drawing believers closer to God.
Oftentimes, the commands of God come to us as a complete mystery. The book of Hosea details one such time in the history of Israel as God commands his prophet to marry a prostitute. What on earth could he have in mind with such a command? What could he be up to?
“Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father.” (James 1:17, NLT)
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