by Garris Elkins | Mar 3, 2009 | Church, Hope, Kingdom of God, Obedience, Restoration, Vision.
Last week I took a hike. Most of the time I like to hike alone so I can talk with God. My hike began in the historic mining town of Jacksonville that is located in southwestern Oregon. After walking across town I went through the pioneer cemetery and then linked up...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Church, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Restoration
As I look out from my hotel room in Long Beach I see the great Queen Mary passenger ship docked across the harbor. She is visible through an urban forest of yacht masts, man-planted palm trees and large dock cranes. In the distance freighters inch across the horizon...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Hope, Obedience, Prayer, Prophetic, Restoration
When God makes a promise there is always that space of time that exists between God speaking the promise to us and the promise becoming a reality. Sometimes that space of time is a moment and sometimes it can be a lifetime. How are we supposed to live in the “until...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Hope, Prayer
As a kid, my dad would take me each month to one of those real old-time barbershops that had a revolving barber pole out front and a barber who smelled like hair cream and had a couple of long thin black combs poking up from within his breast shirt pocket. For the...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 2, 2009 | Church, Hope, Kingdom of God, Prayer, Restoration
My father has been gone for over 20 years. Tonight, my thoughts linger around the memories I have of the last months of his life. When I was a nine year old boy I cried myself to sleep one night thinking that my father would die some day. I don’t know why I...
