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The prophecy from Zephaniah is only three chapters long, but it is a panoramic view of what happens to a nation that abandons the Lord. Though their days were dark and foreboding because of their disobedience, with God, there would be hope for their future if they...
Last night, I had an odd dream. I was standing in a field with a group of pastors. One of the pastors, a prominent leader in the Church, walked away in disgust when I mentioned the word “morality”. He said that teaching morality was a mistake as he walked away from us...
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...
This morning as I walked into our living room to sit in my writing chair, I passed by a bookshelf that houses some of the library that contains study books I used for 35 years as a pastor. Those books helped me unpack Scripture and create thousands of weekly sermons....
Last night, I had an intense dream. At one point, I woke up in the middle of the dream like I was in an intermission at a theater. After the intermission, I went back to sleep and reentered the dream, and picked it up where I left off without missing a beat. I...
The first-century apostles meant business when they referred to the purity and exclusivity of Jesus Christ. It’s what led to their martyrdom. In the first decades of the Church, heresies arose that required the apostles to write letters to various churches warning and...
In times of insecurity, fear, or rebellion, we can take on the mannerisms and lifestyles of an identity that is not someone who walks with the Lord. We begin to blend in with the world around us and in the process, lose our distinction as sons and daughters of God....
Empires of lies are beginning to crumble. Global cabals that have worked in protected secrecy are being exposed and dismantled because of prayer and prophet declarations that have eroded their dark foundations. Never lose hope. The truth will always prevail.
We are living in a battle of opinions. Many of the opinions we hear are offered by loose cannons. Much of what is being said today in the public square is like a loose cannon aboard a sailing vessel. If a cannon is not properly secured to the deck of the ship when it...
Jan and I live along what is considered by many seismologists to be the most dangerous earthquake fault line in the world. It is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. This fault line runs just off the coast of northern California, Oregon, Washington, and...
Yesterday, out in our dog kennel, a blossom appeared on a lilac shrub. The lilac and all the other plants and trees on our property have bare limbs. Spring is still weeks away. In our 20 years living here, we have never seen this happen before to have the leaves of...
Last night, I had a dream. In the dream, I saw an image of rats quickly and quietly abandoning a ship. I knew the image represented what is happening with alliances that were formed to put people in places of authority in our nation whose assignment it was to promote...
The Church in America stands at a point of crossing into a new future. That crossing will be seen historically as a point of no return where many of us had to make hard choices to keep our faith and sanity intact. There is a phrase born out of an event in history that...
I continue to see a sad reality taking place again and again in the lives of believers, mine included. It is the need to control. It's not how long we have “walked with the Lord” or what position we hold within the Church that determines our spiritual maturity. It is...
There is so much unfolding in our world that we do not fully understand. One thing is becoming clear to discerning minds, we are alive at the beginning of a series of changes that will reset everything in our world including how we will be allowed to live and conduct...