by Garris Elkins | May 25, 2019 | Apostle, Change, Church, Culture, Discipleship, Five-Fold Ministry, Future, Kingdom of God, Reformation, Revelation, Revival
Recently, I spoke at a gathering of social reformers and cultural influencers. My assignment was to unpack the teaching gift from within the five equipping gifts Paul mentioned in Ephesians 4. In my presentation, I shared there are three expressions of a teaching gift...
by Garris Elkins | May 24, 2019 | Discipleship, Discipline, Dreams, Faith, Favor, Freedom, Grace, Joy, Justice, Obedience, Peace, Provision, Wisdom, Worship
When I was a kid, I grew up in the Silicon Valley of California before the high tech companies arrived. Our valley was a continuous expanse of fruit orchards. My first real job was at age 9 picking prunes. The ease of picking prunes would depend on how the...
by Garris Elkins | May 23, 2019 | Apostle, Discipleship, Gifts, God, Grace, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Reformation, Revival, Supernatural
A few decades ago, a local church that believed in the supernatural works of God self-described itself as Full Gospel. The term noted an on-going belief in the supernatural works of God including the function of all the gifts of the Spirit. They did not believe in a...
by Garris Elkins | May 22, 2019 | Apostle, Five-Fold Ministry, Justice, Kingdom, Leadership, Reformation, Transition, Vision., Wisdom
When John the Baptist was crying out in the wilderness the people of Jerusalem and the surrounding region ventured out to hear his message. In that advancing crowd were people from all spheres of cultural influence. It would not be the innovators of a new product or...
by Garris Elkins | May 21, 2019 | Change, Courage, Deliverance, Discernment, Dreams, Future, Grace, Hope, Humility
We write and speak a lot about open doors of opportunity. What we don’t talk about is the need to pause on the threshold of those open doors to inquire of the Lord to determine if He was the one who opened the door. A life that demands continual forward motion...
