by Garris Elkins | Jun 2, 2009 | Culture, Holy Spirit, Vision.
As I write this article I am inside a warm cabin in Central Oregon. It is raining outside and a fire is crackling in the fireplace. Even though it is early June, the fire feels good. Like most cabins used by lots of people throughout the year, the accumulative effect...
by Garris Elkins | May 19, 2009 | Leadership, Vision.
Early one morning an experienced pilot took off on a flight from a small Montana airport with two friends on board to fly across the Rocky Mountains. This ill-fated flight disappeared from the radar screen about ten minutes after departure. The remains of the crash...
by Garris Elkins | May 17, 2009 | Hope, Leadership, Restoration
Recently, I was driving home from my office to pack for a leader’s conference my wife and I planned to attend in California. On the commute home my route takes me through some beautiful farm land and rolling hills. On one long section of road I noticed ahead of...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 28, 2009 | Obedience, Spiritual Warfare
“I will lead you back into old battlefields where you once suffered loss. I will lead you into these places to do a work of restoration and return to you what the enemy has taken. The fear of reentry will flee before us as you and I walk together into these places. My...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 19, 2009 | Hope, Prophetic, Vision.
Most of us have written something in the margin of a book or a Bible. As we read along we have thoughts and observations that we want to remember. We connect those thoughts and observations with what we are reading by making notes in the margins of the text. There is...
