by Garris Elkins | Dec 25, 2016 | Hope, Joy, Love, Miracles, Promise, Relationships, Restoration, Thankfulness
Jan and I have experienced 43 Christmas mornings together. After the birth of our two children, we created a Christmas morning family routine that has become a tradition. Jan and I get up early for coffee and Jan’s homemade cinnamon roles, a recipe given to her...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 24, 2016 | Redemption, Restoration
I wonder what the meeting would have been like if Eve, the mother of all humanity, could have met pregnant Mary, the mother of Jesus. I can only imagine the flood of emotion that would overwhelm Eve as she remembered tasting the flavor of forbidden fruit and receiving...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 23, 2016 | Hope, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Trust
I always thought it was strange how I see the year’s calendar in my mind. It resembles a roller coaster. This time of year is that part of the ride when the roller coaster car is slowly ticking its way up through the last few days of December to the apex of the...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 22, 2016 | Death, Deliverance, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare
As a kid growing up in church, I heard the following words repeated over the years, “The finished work of the Cross”. I often wondered what those words meant. I have now come to understand their meaning. Jesus went as far as possible in His obedience as the Second...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 21, 2016 | Dreams, Father, Giving, God, Identity, Joy, Provision
Each year between Thanksgiving and Christmas my father’s rifle, shotgun and binoculars would mysteriously disappear. I wasn’t aware of this annual disappearance until one day when I asked to use my dad’s binoculars. I was told, “There not here just yet.” I was a...
