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A few minutes ago, the Lord gave me a word that was so impactful it affected me physically. He said, "I am bringing to you people you have been told to reject. This rejection includes those who have been brave enough to broadcast the rejected message. I am doing this...
All of God's judgments have within them an expression of His mercy. His mercy has a limit, not on God's ability to love sinful people, but on the extent and purpose of His judgment. People too easily think that God enjoys judging sin. Because of that misunderstanding,...
A coming revival in the Church will fill the Temples of God with His glory. In this covenant, the Temple represents our lives, not a physical structure. In the time of Haggai, the people had allowed God's Temple to go unfinished. This incomplete representation of the...
The older I get the more I notice a similarity between aging physically and maturing spiritually. As I reviewed the last seven decades of my life, some of the things I was interested in while still maturing naturally and spiritually, are no longer of interest to me....
To be restless means a person is unable to stop and rest. It’s like any word that has “less” attached at the end – heartless, worthless, homeless. It references an absence of something. For a life in the Spirit, there is another kind of restlessness. It is not...
I remember when Jan and I were invited as guests to an exquisite dinner where a world-class chef prepared a meal for a small number of guests. We were served sorbet between the multiple courses and pairings to keep our palates clean and refreshed so we could taste the...
At this time of year, people are looking to fulfill resolutions regarding healthy eating, exercising, and finances. Regarding the latter, I want to offer what I consider to be a foundational element in our understanding of money and its use. Without understanding this...
I have lived long enough to see something that never ends well. It is when individuals, cultural institutions, or church movements attempt to cover up sin and wrongdoing to protect their interests. It is the last two words of the previous sentence, “their interests”,...
This morning while I watched several news programs, I realized our nation is a tinderbox ready to ignite. All the emotion and fear that has accumulated over the last few years, along with currently developing issues, are revealing a nation whose tinderbox is full and...
There are times when the Spirit will create an interest in us that will lead us to a place of revelation. At first, some of those interests don’t appear very spiritual and can be prematurely rejected before the Lord has a chance to speak to us. For the last few...
The conversation went like this: “Why are you talking about those things? “Because you aren’t and it’s my assignment.” The Church has been described as a body with many parts that have different positions and functions. Our spiritual health and our reasonableness are...
It is believed by some who interpret current events that we have entered a moment in history where the makings of World War III are beginning to unfold. The Doomsday Clock that measures the proximity of a nuclear exchange is closer now than ever before in our...
“The borrower is the slave of the lender” (Proverbs 22:7). A deeper look into our national economic system provided by insightful analysts is telling us a major contributing factor to the future collapse of our economy will be our willingness to take on increasing...
The curses and assignments of the enemy to kill, steal, and destroy are coming back to haunt him. They are also coming back to dismantle his plans. An unexpected boomerang effect is taking place. Several years ago, my wife, Jan, spoke to me about a boomerang...
Each year in January, I am drawn to the book of Proverbs to glean wisdom for the year. A friend of mine recently said that in 2023, the book of Proverbs will give the Church a backbone. I interpreted that comment to mean that the wisdom and common sense expressed in...