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I was driving my truck through town last week and noticed a vehicle in front of me being towed away. At the stoplight, I took a photo of the car. What caught my attention was the bumper sticker attached to the vehicle – "Please be Patient. Student driver." A student...
A new sign was recently placed at the entrance to the trails I hike each week. It is a sign that clearly specifies what is prohibited on the trails: horses and mules. It was the distinct prohibition of mules that caught my attention. Apparently, someone thought it was...
We can think that demonic possession only occurs in people. God wants to expand our understanding of this subject. The goal of demons is to possess anything - people, politics, governments, systems of commerce, even some churches whose theologies are being used by the...
Labels are descriptions that we attach to our lives. They can define a function, a season, or the memory of a person. No label offers an all-inclusive definition of someone's life. I sat down and reviewed the various labels that have been attached to my life. ...
There are certain things in a life of faith that until they are settled, we will continue to live in a state of unease swayed back and forth by doubt without ever finding a place of rest. Years ago, Jan shared with me a breakthrough that took place in her heart that...
Don’t lose heart no matter what you see taking place in the world. We have not yet seen God make His most significant move in this generation– a move that will be more impacting than the damage caused by a global black swan event. Black swan events occur...
When Samson, a morally compromised man, married outside his Israelite heritage, he would be manipulated by his conniving Philistine wife to gather intelligence to use against Israel. His parents were confused by their son's behavior and his lack of a moral compass....
This morning, I woke up hearing in my spirit the word “tottering.” After settling into my writing chair, I searched for the meaning of the word and found the following definition provided by an online Google search. “Tottering: 1 a: being in an unstable condition:...
The Lord is waiting for us to ask Him for more. The “more” is the revelation of those things happening in the realm of the Spirit that will invade our conscious mind and life experience and change us forever. This hunger for more will keep us from settling into a...
The way forward that leads to sanity and wholeness is many times hidden behind the diversions we are told to believe as the absolute truth of a matter, diversions that demand our acceptance without further inquiry.
This morning, the Lord spoke a word of instruction that would be applicable to all of us who call ourselves followers of Jesus Christ. The word was spoken like a whisper. I would have missed the word had its content not had an image attached. In the image,...
When fear begins to sweep across a nation, we must stop to assess what is forming our fearful thoughts and then reorder our minds to fear only God and nothing else. None of us will always know what is going on in our world all the time but when the obvious begins to...
Plans and policies are being instituted in our nation, and in other countries around the world, that are test runs for greater measures of control and forced submission. While some people of faith have abandoned any thought of intervention thinking it is a form of...
When Gideon was being called by God, what the Lord was asking him to do would require a level of strength Gideon did not possess. As Gideon was offering the Lord his objections and asking for multiple signs of confirmation, the Lord said, “Go with the strength you...
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...