by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Hope, Prayer
As a kid, my dad would take me each month to one of those real old-time barbershops that had a revolving barber pole out front and a barber who smelled like hair cream and had a couple of long thin black combs poking up from within his breast shirt pocket. For the...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Church, Hope, Kingdom of God, Prayer, Restoration
My father has been gone for over 20 years. Tonight, my thoughts linger around the memories I have of the last months of his life. When I was a nine year old boy I cried myself to sleep one night thinking that my father would die some day. I don’t know why I...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Holy Spirit, Hope, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Obedience, Prayer, Restoration
In our family, I grew up hunting and fishing. Each fall we would make a man-trek into the wilds to pursue deer. I loved the coming of fall. The preparation and plans for the annual hunt was something that occupied my boyhood thoughts from the start of hunting season...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Evangelism, Holy Spirit, Obedience, Restoration, Vision.
My grandmother ran a beer and wine bar in San Francisco in the 1930’s. Grandma didn’t get into that business overnight. It was the result of a life of hard-nocks that started many years earlier when my grandfather left the house one day to find work and...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Church, Culture, Hope, Prophetic
There are times when I simply need to “hike it out.” A few times each year I get in one of those mental places where showing up at the office only complicates things. Getting away from everything and everybody and connecting with God in nature helps me hear His voice....
