The Rise & Fall of the Kansas City Prophets | Reviewing Dr. Sam Storms

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4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Dr. Sam Storms has been one of our own. He's served at our conferences, he's connected to us through the Convergence Church Network, and he's been one of the clearest continuationist voices in evangelical Christianity for decades. His new book, The Rise and Fall of the Kansas City Prophets, is the most detailed insider account of the Kansas City prophetic movement ever written — 310 pages covering 1982 to 2000, the era of Bob Jones, Paul Cain, and Mike Bickle's rise to prominence. And people...

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0:17.7	My name is Joshua Lewis, and in this program, we're talking about the rise and fall of the Kansas City Prophets, a book written by Dr. Sam Storm. It's going to be an interesting program. You guys, you guys. Welcome back to the wonderful world of Remnant Radio, guys. We've got a good program for you today. And I'm joined with my co-host Michael Miller over in
0:38.3	Denver Colorado how are you doing over there in Denver Michael uh I'm good man I'm recovering
0:45.8	after being in Peru uh I had just major sickness both in Peru and I had ever since I've
0:53.1	gotten back I had
0:54.4	two of the guys on my team had to fly back early one of them quite literally almost
0:58.7	died it was a pretty scary you know Nick from our our network was just massively
1:05.2	sick dude and so yeah man I'm just glad to be back and on the other side of recovery not quite looking forward
1:13.0	to this episode it was painful to read this book I don't know how did you process Josh as you were
1:19.6	just going through this Sam's newest book I'm still in the anger stage of the grieving process. So I don't know if I move out of it.
1:30.9	I don't know that I felt pain. I just anger. I think that's when lied to over and over and over
1:38.6	by others. And you know, you read these stories and Sam lays out the timeline of when these
1:44.0	events took place.
1:45.6	Yeah, it makes me angry because I think I was duped like many of the others who were close to Bickle.
1:51.7	I don't know that I was close to Bickel, but for the sake of transparency on this program,
1:56.1	Bickle would send me emails, you know, saying, hey, how did that job interview go?
2:00.0	And, hey, what are you doing here with interview go? And hey, what are you doing
2:01.5	here with your future? And he, for a year when I moved to Ada to plant a church, he sent me a
2:07.6	monthly donation. Like he, I don't know, it was like 100 bucks or 150 bucks. It was something.
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