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As I was reading through Revelation, I came upon similar language to what the Lord spoke on the Cross when He said, “It is finished.” “Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture, he said, ‘I am thirsty.’ A jar of sour wine was sitting...
For the last few decades, theories and assumptions about the book of Revelation and the timing of its events have been taught to the Church. It has been a pick-and-choose exercise, leaving out some of what is described in John's writing, assigning it to the past or as...
I hear, both in the corporate world and within leadership circles in the Church, the phrase, "Taking someone to the next level." Entire courses of instruction and counseling are developed to take someone to whatever "the next level" means. That next level is defined...
Where I live in the Northwest of the United States a vessel called a drift boat is used to navigate our rivers. It’s very popular with guides and fishermen. The flow of a river is used to move the drift boat downstream and the person manning the helm employs the use...
In the last couple of years, I have seen good people taken out because they were not living in the light. Among those taken out were leaders in the Church who thought they could get away with a hidden sin just one more time until the next time came, and that assault...
Persecution takes place within a context. Not all persecution carries the same depth of punishment. Some forms of persecution are severe and brutal both physically and emotionally. Other forms of persecution can be rejection, missing out on a job promotion, or the...
What is being used to divert our attention away from what is really happening at this moment in history? The diversions taking place, and there are several and they are significant, are being used to direct our attention away from the real issues that will most...
We have entered what seems like a spiritual lull. It resembles a sailing vessel in the doldrums mid-ocean with slack sails. What appears to be a lack of motion does not mean that in the heavenly realm, significant events are not unfolding. It means those developments...
One of the greatest threats to the kingdom of darkness is a believer speaking the truth in love. Paul wrote to the Ephesians telling them the evidence of being a mature and fully equipped believer is the ability to speak the truth in love. “We will not be...
Wise leadership will always keep in mind the foundation the Lord used to build upon what they now steward. In the substance of that foundation are the elements God will use to guide and resurrect the faith of a family, a church, or a denomination when they lose their...
Those who are currently speaking the truth of God’s word in our culture seem out of step with the spirit of the age. They appear like naked people, oddities reminiscent of an antiquated belief system. They are mocked and labeled as uniformed, intolerant, and unloving...
Today, we are surrounded by a variety of wicked and perverse ideologies. Much of it is being forced upon us and demanding that we accept these ideologies as the new normal. We are being surrounded like it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah when perversion pounded...
We place quotation marks around the Scripture we quote. It is right when quoting something not original to us. In doing so, what we quote can sound distant and not part of us like it is when quoting something from a book. Scripture is different. It is alive and active...
Because we live in a physical world and relate to the unfolding of time based on clocks and calendars, we can wrongly discern what we perceive as a delay. If we are not careful, we can wrongly interpret a delay as a lack of fulfillment of what God has promised. The...
Tomorrow is Father’s Day. As the day approaches, I think of my father, Charlie Elkins. He passed away 34 years ago. He was born in 1908 in a sod hut in the panhandle of Oklahoma near the town of Guymon. Outside the front door of their home was a horse hooked to a...