by Garris Elkins | Feb 6, 2017 | Love, Marriage, Mercy, Peace, Promise, Restoration
For the last several weeks, I have felt that we, as the Church, need to take a bath. After a long and brutal election cycle, emotion and opinion ran wild. We watched as words were tossed around like verbal dirt clods striking anyone who was standing in the way. ...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 6, 2017 | Peace, Thankfulness, Worship
I was driving home earlier this week and realized I had been taking inventory of the vehicles coming at me from the other direction. A muscle car went by that reminded me of a 57 Chevy I once owned. Then a sports car zoomed by that stirred memories of a Triumph TR3...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 5, 2017 | Faithfulness, Freedom, Healing, Hope, Joy, Promise, Restoration, Truth
The greatest theft is the theft of our passion for God. Passion is the ignition system God has placed within us that ignites our destiny. It is the flame we use to touch the woodpile of purpose that will cause us to burn for God. ...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 4, 2017 | Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching
Yesterday, I was driving in my car and turned on a Christian radio station. That was unusual for me. I don’t care for a lot of what is out there in the form of Christian media because years ago many of the platforms of faith-based media no longer seemed to resemble...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 3, 2017 | Identity, Restoration, Revelation, Trust
God is asking you to rip off the fake labels others have sewn onto your life in an act of judgment. He is also asking you, through an act of forgiveness, to remove the fake labels you have prematurely and impatiently placed on people and cultures before God was able...
