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For the next 10 days, Jan and I will be taking a break from our social media accounts. For us, this is a time to prepare for what the Lord is doing and be ready to enter the fall season with fresh understanding. To all of you in social media land, take care and be well.
Over the last several decades, Jan and I have done quite a bit of traveling. We have traveled to 50 nations in total. Most of our travel was for ministry assignments. During that level of travel, we learned something important about preparing to travel. We packed two...
The photos of our wedding day have faded over time, but not the love God has given to us. It increases with each passing day. Today, we celebrate 52 years as husband and wife. We didn’t get here by being perfect by any measure. We got this far by the spirit of...
Every revival will experience a moment of dispersal. Dispersal is not the end of a move of God. It must take place to keep the fruit of revival healthy and always expanding by moving a revival beyond its place of inception to ignite other revivals among God’s people...
I took this photo through the window of a display case located along a sidewalk in our small town. The window displays photos from a gifted photographer. Each month throughout the year the photo in the window changes. The photo currently displayed is of Jan and me and...
Yesterday, Jan and I spent some time with friends. During our conversation, one of our friends spoke about loyalty and faithfulness and said that faithfulness was a greater virtue than loyalty. I had to agree. Our conversation continued not as an exercise of...
As the presence of the Lord increases in our nation resulting in revivals like we are seeing at Asbury University and beyond, we will see a revival unfold without form or formula. It will be a borderless movement. God will use this revival to dismantle our current...
Only a pure and simple faith will survive and prosper in the coming days. A faith encumbered by anything other than a devotion to Jesus Christ will stall and leave us stranded on a road of despair. Recently, I saw an interview with a “prepper.” He was preparing to...
As a young pastor, an early mentor of mine, Roy Hicks, Jr. of Faith Center in Eugene, Oregon, shared the two signs of revival with a group of us. He said revival has two components – repentance and young faces. The revival at Asbury University in Kentucky began when...
There may come a time in your life when what you are hearing from the Lord will run contrary to the advice offered by longtime friends and advisors. At that point, you will need to ask yourself a question – who has my ear? Who has your ear will determine your next...
In times of natural warfare, debating is not an effective weapon. The same is true in times of spiritual warfare. At some point, the debate becomes ineffective, and we must abandon its appeal to continue lingering in the false promise of peace and enter the fight....
There is a misunderstanding within some parts of the Church. It has been wrongly represented that our faith in Jesus Christ must be totally open and accepting of all things, all for the purpose of inclusion and evangelism. Even the use of the word “wrongly” could be...
One aspect of the gift of discernment is the ability to determine who or what is trying to gain our ear. This journey of discernment will often begin by asking questions, especially about the credibility of those whose mission is to tell us who or what to...
The Lord is shifting the prophetic assignment of some of His prophets. They will become interpreters of current events. The Spirit-inspired prophetic interpretations offered by these prophets will deliver a deeper understanding of what is taking place in our world....
With all that's happening in our world, a lot of it painful and dark, I thought a lighter approach might help provide an emotional intermission. I was asked to write an article for a book about embarrassing moments. My list of embarrassing moments was too long to...