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With yet again another conflict taking place in the Middle East and various parts of the Church trying to define the conflict and its perpetrators, the Lord still honors His pledge to Israel. We talk about the civil government of Israel as being different than the...
On a recent hike, I discovered the discarded door from an old, abandoned car. Over the years, the door had become a target. It was filled with bullet holes. The shot-up door resembles some of you who feel discarded and shot through by betrayal and abandonment. The...
The Lord spoke a powerful sentence in the middle of His confrontation of the people's ability to create idols who cannot perform or stand on their own, "I have prepared you even though you do not know me" (Isaiah 45:5). All of our life is a preparation to believe in...
The greatest forms of vision are not cast when we understand all that is taking place or when we assume we clearly see the future. It is cast when we are taken to a place of isolation where we are unable to see any natural indicators or solutions for the issues we are...
Yesterday, as Jan and I drove back home from Portland, Oregon, I heard of the passing of Jack Hayford. When I received the news, something pierced my heart. It was both a sorrow and a thanksgiving for a life of a man I loved and admired. I needed a day to gather my...
The old saying, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire” is not always true. There are times when smoke indicates what was once on fire is now only a dying ember. Too much of the church in America has become dispassionate in their worship. As a result, they are not seeing...
84 years ago, my mother became a newlywed. She received a set of silver as a wedding gift. This week, I held a fork from that original silver set and used it to eat a lovely meal prepared by my daughter and her husband who now have in their possession that old silver...
I can usually tell when a conversation is about to go south. It becomes obvious when the person asking me a question begins the conversation with, “So, are you saying….?” At that point, the passive-aggressive inquirer fills in the blank giving the appearance to those...
When redeemed by the Lord, each of our personal histories can be used to fulfill our Kingdom assignment and calling. I used to wonder how certain aspects of my work as an agent in an organized crime task force would be part of my future Kingdom assignment. I no longer...
When I was a kid, I remember hearing a phrase used when someone had missed an opportunity. They would say someone was “a day late and a dollar short.” In other words, the timing and resources needed to take advantage of an opportunity had been missed. In the last two...
The greatest nation is not defined by language, borders, or customs. It is a spiritual nation formed by God that stands in authority over all the nations of the Earth. It is a nation formed within the person of Jesus Christ that will endure long after all the nations...
I included the following link to an article I wrote about 2023 that appeared today on The Elijah List. When life seems to be spiraling out of control on many fronts, there is only one thing that will recalibrate our hearts and minds. Discovering that one thing will...
When a seasoned SWAT team veteran was training me, he gave me some sage advice, “Always keep a spare grenade pin handy. You may need it to make the grenade safe again if an active situation changes direction.” I still have that spare grenade pin somewhere in my old...
I have noticed something taking place that is more evident now than ever before. Those who are the naïve guard dog defenders of deception, whether that deception is perpetrated in civic life, science, medicine, or theology, can be more rabid in their defense of...
While all prophetic voices sit around the same table of fellowship with the Lord, not all of them will bring the same message. The prophetic voice of the Church is a collective voice. It expresses a unique assemblage of revelations offered from different perspectives....