by Garris Elkins | May 14, 2020 | Discernment, Discipleship, Trust, Truth
Soon, our culture will begin to reassemble. In our reassembling, we will also have to reassemble fragmented relationships that were divided over divergent opinions on what has taken place during the pandemic and how we should have responded to the challenge. As we...
by Garris Elkins | May 13, 2020 | Revelation, Teaching, Truth, Vision., Wisdom, Word
When something crosses our path and challenges our perspective, our first response is many times crafted from a variety of issues like our unresolved fears, pride, past acts of betrayal, or the pain of relational abandonment. These are surface responses that are...
by Garris Elkins | May 12, 2020 | Church, Courage, Culture, Faith, Fear, Future, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Leadership
History has a strange way of repeating itself. 3,000 years ago, Samuel wrote the book of Judges. It was a time of anarchy in the land. One verse, in particular, reveals the attitude of the culture at that moment in history, “In those days Israel had no king; all the...
by Garris Elkins | May 11, 2020 | Hope, Peace, Trust
God is all-powerful. He can change the course of human history by a glance, an upraised hand, or by simply standing up in the middle of what we would consider an impossible situation and bring an abrupt end to what afflicts us. His slightest response without a word...
by Garris Elkins | May 10, 2020 | Family, Identity
I’ve already wished Jan a happy Mother’s Day in a public and personal way. I wanted to take a moment to honor my mother, who has been with the Lord for ten years this month. She came from a life of poverty in the deep South. My mom had only one pair of...
