What if the urgency of the end times wasn’t meant to frighten you—but to wake you up? That’s the message two young evangelists are sounding loudly in a generation they say is dangerously comfortable.
In a wide-ranging conversation on the Bryce Crawford Podcast, Crawford and evangelist Keenan Clark delivered an unfiltered call to boldness, repentance and consecration that feels less like a sermon and more like a fire alarm.
The Urgency Is Personal, Not Just Prophetic
Clark, a former young adult pastor from San Angelo, Texas, and now a full-time evangelist, opened the conversation by rejecting the idea that end-times language is fear-mongering. For him, it’s simply reality—one that demands a response today, not tomorrow.
“Whether or not you believe we are in the literal last days, you’re in your last days,” Clark said. “You’re not promised tomorrow. You need to treat every day like it’s the last days.”
Crawford agreed, framing urgency not as anxiety but as fuel. “Bold sensing of the end times is good for urgency,” Crawford said, “and not fear.”
The Line Between Burden and Bother
Both men are known for straight-talking preaching, but Clark was quick to distinguish boldness from abrasiveness—a lesson, he said, his wife Beth taught him the hard way.
“She said, ‘It’s not that what you said wasn’t true. It’s that you preached it with more of a bother than a burden,’” Clark recalled. “You need to find a burden and not a bother.”
That distinction, Clark argued, isn’t about softening the message—it’s about the heart behind it. When a preacher carries a genuine burden for people’s eternity, the words hit differently than when he’s simply irritated by their sin.
God Does What You Can’t—Not What You Won’t
One of the conversation’s most striking moments came when Clark addressed the common tendency to spiritualize habitual sin—using Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” as an excuse for pornography, alcohol or other addictions.
Clark recounted a story his father told him: after accidentally leaving his power tools outside overnight, Clark’s father simply raised his hand toward the door and asked God to protect them rather than getting up to retrieve them. The response he heard from the Holy Spirit stopped him cold.
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“God does what we are incapable of, not what we just refuse to do,” Clark said. “If you’re too immature for this, you must be too immature to be free.”
One More Night With the Frogs
Drawing from Exodus 8, Clark pointed to an often-overlooked detail in the plague narrative: when Moses offered to intercede and remove the frogs, Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” He had the opportunity to say “right now” and chose to spend one more night with the plague instead.
“If you keep pushing things off to tomorrow, you are of the spirit of Pharaoh,” Clark said. “This will be the last time. I’ll look at it one more time—instead of saying the last time was the last time.”
Consecrated or Comfortable: A Challenge to the Church
The conversation took a sobering turn when Clark shared a secondhand account of a woman on an airplane who identified herself as a witch. She was fasting—not for revival or spiritual renewal, but to obtain power to curse pastors’ children at an upcoming gathering.
Clark said the account shook him and his wife to action.
“How sad is it that witches and warlocks are out-consecrating us?” Clark said. “They’re willing to push the plate aside. They’re willing to abstain—so they can get power in the spirit to do a nefarious, evil thing. And the church is over here, fat, out of shape, won’t pray, won’t fast.”
Crawford and Clark closed with a call to prayer and fasting—not as religious performance but as warfare.
“If you are being obedient to God, it does not matter who else is interested in what He’s called you to do,” Clark said.
Now the question truly is this: Are you willing to let go of the old to obtain the newness that God has for you?
Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the upcoming book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
