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Amid the growing national division and turmoil taking place in America, the Church has been planted in each city to reverse a descent into greater expressions of evil. Our presence and witness have the power to turn the spiritual tide and bring hope for a better...
We are living in a time when expressing an opinion can make us a target for an insult. No one will be immune to these assaults. Some insults are expressed by a passive-aggressive personality that may sound legitimate at first, but were created to confront, not to...
Whenever we speak or write something, we must ask ourselves a series of questions; without asking those questions, what we say or write will not come from a deeper place of personal introspection. First and foremost is the question, "How does this apply to me?"...
What I am about to share is not intended to create suspicion or fear. Those two things are a work of hell. I write to address a sad, but true reality. Some within the Church who claim to follow Jesus are tares planted within the harvest. To ignore such a possibility...
An acronym is used to define a process of rescue that helps first responders remain functional in their mission and give accurate lifesaving care when they arrive on the scene of a crisis. That acronym is “OODA” - Observe, Orientate, Decide, Act. OODA also has an...
I just drove some friends to the airport. It was an early 4:15 am drive that deposited them at the check in counter in time for their flight. Driving home, I had a sense the Lord is doing the same in the Spirit for some of you. He is moving you to a place where a...
Just before World War I and the Russian Revolution broke out, Hitler, Stalin, and Trotsky all lived within a mile of each other in Vienna. There is no evidence they knew one another. Their proximity to each other can teach us something about spiritual warfare. There...
Some of you have assumed a posture of faith where you cannot see what is coming. You don’t need natural sight to confirm the approaching fulfillment of God’s promise. You only need faith. Did you know that clouds are heavy? A small cloud can weigh about as much...
Last night, Jan and I were having a long and wonderful conversation with some good friends. The conversation lasted the entire evening. We talked about life, our ministries, God’s Kingdom, and how we met our spouses. As we spoke about those first encounters, it was...
There are distractions taking place in our world that are a tactic of the enemy. Their intent is to rob us of hope and weaken our faith. Properly discerning these distractions will determine the longevity and effectiveness of our testimony. I recently had a very...
During the years when I worked behind a badge, on a few occasions, I had people try to kill me. By God’s grace and good training, I was able to survive those situations. Since the days when I worked as a cop, the streets have become even more violent and unrestrained....
I value straightforward answers. Whenever I am around people who are hard to pin down, their partial and deflective answers are like a puddle of mercury moving around without clear definition avoiding answers that would offer clarity about what they believe. Their...
As bizarre forms of evil parade across our culture and a mixture of spiritual deception, emotional brokenness, and mental instability seem to be taking center stage and are represented as truth, something else is happening. Clarity is coming. The more obvious it...
Over the years, I’ve had conversations with believers that sounded more like a conversation with an unbeliever than someone who claims to know the Lord. The same doubts and deceptions were present in those conversations as a conversation taking place in the larger...
Yesterday, I was speaking to a group of students in the Midwest during a Zoom call training module. One of the goals of the school is to train students how to take the message of God’s Kingdom into the marketplace. I felt the Lord asking me to share about how we can...