by Garris Elkins | Dec 19, 2016 | Death, Deliverance, Destiny, Discipleship
Whenever a spiritual crash takes place a debris field is left behind containing the evidence of what went wrong. When the crash of an airliner occurs, the NTSB arrives at the scene to collect evidence and find the black box hidden in the wreckage. Pieces of the...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 19, 2016 | Courage, Leadership
Don’t require other people to be courageous if you are not willing to live in the same place of courage you are requiring of them. Step into your place of courage without demanding that others do the same. Once there live in such a way that your life becomes an...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 18, 2016 | Future, Hope, Kingdom of God, Reconciliation, Redemption, Restoration
When things are taken from us by death or through a painful circumstance of life, our first response can be to begin looking for a replacement. We want to fill our place of loss with someone or something. We think by filling the void with a replica we can make the...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 17, 2016 | Courage, Deliverance, Fathers, Love, Sacrifice
As a small boy, I remember the day I asked my father why he had so many scars across his stomach and chest. At the time he gave me an age-appropriate answer. A few years later, I asked again and then he gave me the full story. My grandmother owned a business on Turk...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 16, 2016 | Culture, Deliverance, Freedom, Healing, Promise, Redemption, Restoration, Resurrection
When I was a young cop, I was assigned to a unit with the acronym, OCCIS. The formal name was the Organized Crime and Criminal Information Section. It was a federally funded task force sourced from multiple police agencies in the Silicon Valley of California. We...
