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Winkie Pratney

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After more than three million miles of global travel and sometimes speaking to more than half-a-million annually, Winkie has wide experience in motivating leaders, ministers, educators and young people. Winkie is a mavin, a researcher and public communicator with ability to take existing ideas, break them down to simpler forms and make them practical and freely available to others. His technical background in organic research chemistry and lifelong involvement with musicians and in the arts, has helped him analyze the bottom line of many key areas as diverse as popular youth culture, music, movies, classic and modern revival history and emerging communication and information technology.

Having spoken in annual leadership training seminars for over four decades, and to young people for at least five, Winkie has worked with many leading international youth movements including, Champions For Christ, Chi Alpha, Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Teen Challenge, Teen Mania, Youth With A Mission, Youth For Christ, Young Life and Youth Alive. A featured speaker at major conferences, conventions, festivals and other gatherings, his "scholarship on fire" approach has impacted multitudes around the globe, and resulted in the creation or formation of new works to effectively reach, encourage and train young people. You can access more materials and resources by Winkie Pratney on his official website.


Winkie Pratney is a youth communicator, Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer from Auckland, New Zealand. With a mostly teenaged audience, Pratney speaks world wide to over 500,000 annually in churches, universities, high-schools, and Christian-oriented festivals.

Pratney's leadership seminars encourage young people to live a Christian lifestyle. He also facilitates training seminars in conjunction with other Christian organizations such as Campus Life, Champions For Christ, Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Youth With A Mission, Young Life, Youth Alive, and Teen Challenge.

Pratney is the author of several books including the most recent Youth Aflame: Manual for Discipleship and Ultimate CORE: Church on the Radical Edge and is the primary contributor of the Revival Study Bible.

      Winkie Pratney is a youth communicator, Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer. He regularly travels America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific speaking to more than 500,000 young people per year. Pratney is known to speak in Churches, but more usually universities, High-schools, and Christian festivals.

      Besides annual leadership training seminars he has for three decades helped challenge and inspire young people to holy and happy living. Winkie is involved with helping and training young people of all ages and works with many leading international youth movements including Campus Life, Champions For Christ, Operation Mobilization, Masters Commission, Youth With A Mission, Young Life, Youth Alive, and Teen Challenge.

      He currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, Fae.

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Winkie Pratney

A SPIRITUAL "CHECK-UP".

Billy Sunday once said - "Some people take so many pills their joints look like ball bearings." It's a sick, sick world. With such a lot of medical problems around, it is always a good idea to get a physical check-up at least a couple of times a year. These physical check-ups cost a little time and ... Read More
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Counterfeit Conversion - Part One

Over one hundred years ago, revival swept America. Thousands of souls entered the Kingdom of God under the searching sermons of a humble servant of Christ, Charles G. Finney. It has been estimated that over half a million were converted to God as a direct result of his ministry, and that by a conser... Read More
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Counterfeit Conversion - Part Three

"For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God" (John 12:43). This verse describes men who refused to confess that Jesus was the Christ because He was extremely unpopular with the scribes and Pharisees, leaders of Jerusalem. These men were, of course, never saved. They chose to respec... Read More
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Counterfeit Conversion - Part Two

Much is said today about the "carnal Christian." Such a one, we are told, has made Jesus "Savior" but not Lord. It appears by this that a man can be saved, but not surrendered to Christ; following Him, but still serving self. And it is easy to see why this idea has arisen. Preachers and personal wor... Read More
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MAN AND THE ORIGIN OF EVIL.

BODY: Flesh - (Covering, building, sensing) Gen. 2:7; Ps. 139:14-16; Ps. 8:4-5; Jn. 24:39. Bones - (Framework, support, protection) Gen. 2:23, Job 1:11 Ps. 22:14, 17: Jn. 19:36. Blood - (Food, air, police and disposal system--life of flesh) Lev. 17:14; Duet. 12:23; Acts. 17:26 SOUL: Emotion - (Sense... Read More
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Me Or Adam?

GOD’S GREATEST PROBLEM God’s greatest problem is summed up in one little word: S-I-N. Heaven is at battle stations today because sin has invaded the human race and the moral Universe. It is high time the Church knew her enemy! Her first enemy is not the Devil, it is not death, it is not despair. Her... Read More
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PEOPLE PLEASERS

What about those old "friends" who stay around to tempt you or drag you down? All friendships made for selfish reasons before your conversion must go on the altar of sacrifice with all other things that belonged to your past life. All future friendships as well as those you keep from the past must b... Read More
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THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN

One hundred years ago revival swept America. Thousands of souls entered the Kingdom of God under the searching sermons of a humble servant of Christ, Charles G. Finney. It has been estimated that over half a million were converted to God as a direct result of his ministry. and that by a conservative... Read More
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The King and His Kingdom

All studies of the Kingdom of Heaven must begin with the King Himself. No kingdom is greater than its king, nor more wise or powerful than the one who is best qualified to rule it. The Bible tells us about this King, the greatest Ruler of all, the King of all Kings. If we study it carefully what doe... Read More
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THE NATURE OF SIN

WHAT WENT WRONG? Adam and Eve awoke in a world of loveliness. Made as a tiny replica of their Heavenly Father, having in finite miniature the abilities and qualities of God, they were given His law of love to live by. The first man and his lovely wife walked and talked with God in the garden paradis... Read More

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