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Each morning, as I water the plants in our front yard, a little hummingbird comes and sits on a wire that runs atop our Rose of Sharon tree. Its appearance is like clockwork. The hummingbird even sat patiently for me while I went inside our home to retrieve my phone...
I recently watched a video about hyenas. They make an annoying shriek. When an entire group of hyenas is shrieking en masse, it gives off a mocking sound. At certain times, the voices of disagreement we hear in our culture sound like a pack of hyenas shrieking in...
When God exposes our sin, He has a purpose for that exposure. He wants to set, and in some cases, reset the boundary of our lives where the Lord, not our rebellion against Him, defines our lives. Micah was a prophet. He prophesied about the people's accountability for...
I ran across an old newspaper clipping from the Eugene Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon. The article was written by a reporter who was assigned to me during a murder investigation when I worked as a homicide detective in Springfield. The article was a full two-page...
Revival is for the Church. Reformation is for the nations. When the purpose of those two events and the order in which they unfold is understood, a revolution will take place. Only a revived Church can be used by God to bring reformation to a nation because the...
In the dream, I was seated in a large church sanctuary in the front row. Hundreds of people had assembled. I was the guest speaker. I was wearing only a pair of boxer shorts. Nothing else. To say the dream was uncomfortable would be an understatement. As I...
In the desperate moments of life, only those who have placed their trust in God will experience peace and rest. We are running out of time. No longer should a follower of Jesus allow their hope to be placed in the results of yet another election, a change in...
God's purpose for marriage spans all of human history from creation until the end of time. When we discover that purpose it will help us align all other areas of our lives with God’s truth. That discovery will reveal the way forward when God's original blueprint is...
We have entered a moment in history when unusual and unexpected revelations will be brought to light. The Lord has planted people inside the war room of hell where dark strategies are being developed. When exposure takes place, it will contain the spiritual...
In our home, there is a phrase Jan repeats to me whenever I am feeling my natural age. She says, “You are moving forward in the strength of Caleb!” In other words, the occasional moans and groans of an aging body do not define a person’s spiritual strength or status...
Like all marriages, ours has changed over time. When Jan and I went on our first date how we related to each other was very different from what we now have after almost 50 years of marriage. We are more comfortable in our relational skin. Things we never considered...
Yesterday, Jan and I went to see the movie Jesus Revolution. The history of the movie was part of my life. As the movie progressed, I saw the kind of gatherings where I would have been present amidst a sea of young faces. We all craved God's presence and spent each...
Everything in this world is connected. Nothing is isolated. All the assembled parts are connected to outcomes, either good or bad. This morning, I was prompted to write this post when I read a news report of what is called the “Judgment Day” aircraft. This...
It is becoming increasingly obvious we are moving toward a critical and dangerous juncture in human history. Despair will increase when options for escape narrow and people become desperate. This is not the time to seek out the counsel of the religious equivalent of...
In the life of faith, there will be times when we must run ahead of what has become familiar, predictable, and expected of us. This moving ahead is not always a physical move. It could be initiated by a deeper revelation of how we see God’s Kingdom or a change in our...