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Yesterday, Jan and I watched an episode of season 5 of The Chosen. In one scene, Jesus and His disciples were celebrating the Passover. At one point, Jan and I got emotional when we heard a song they sang. They were singing what is called the "Dayenu," a song...
Last night, Jan rustled in bed. Her movement awakened me. The faint fragrance of her perfume came to me as she changed positions. Immediately, I sensed that her fragrance was a word from the Lord to me. As our attention is being drawn to wars and rumors of wars in the...
We like to have confidence in what we believe. That confidence is not always the best indicator of what is true. Apart from knowing that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, so much of our faith needs to have a place for wonder and mystery to exist, not another...
When people are suffering and images of their suffering seem to be absent from reporting in our news outlets, I am compelled to use this platform to bring that suffering to light. China is undergoing a moment of significant transition. Protests are taking place the...
During 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of people lost their collective minds. People said things they now regret. Long-term relationships changed forever. Prophets who spoke contrary to the accepted herd-think were negatively defined by overly...
When we use the same derisive terms employed by the culture to single out and confront each other, we cast our lot with the wrong spirit. When we do this, we become puppet-like spokesmen for the media, political alliances, and compromised leaders. Labels like...
The older I become, the more I realize how important it is to have a healthy perspective regarding our own weaknesses and perceived self-importance. Over the last 49 years of marriage, and 42 years of ministry, Jan has offered me a safe harbor to dock my occasionally...
The prophetic calling of the Church was never intended to be like a timid little fish swimming within the limitations of fear afraid to speak the truth or upset the hearer. It should be like a shark cruising through the deceptions of culture devouring its spiritual...
The Lord is calling the Church to engage in specific, Spirit-directed prayer without the blurring effect of emotion. It is an aggressive kind of target-specific prayer that has the potential to intervene in the affairs of this world and set the captives free. When I...
I am sitting in front of our woodstove on a cold Oregon November day. Snow graces the summits of the surrounding hills. The sounds coming from our woodstove are those deeper thud-like sounds of ignition when a fire is entering a more mature burn. It is in that deeper...
Jan and I have been watching a Netflix documentary titled Ancient Apocalypse. The documentary offers evidence about ancient civilizations that existed before the assumed timeline of human history that has been accepted and taught within the field of archaeology. The...
A memory from my boyhood came to mind last week. I was 8 years old and for some reason, I woke up shortly after midnight. I got out of bed and walked down the hall through the darkness into the kitchen to discover, to my surprise, that my father was standing there in...
What would your response be if the first major headlines for the year 2023 read as follows- “Gavin Newsom accepts the role of Vice President of the United States after the unexpected resignation of Kamala Harris.” Later in that same year, the headlines changed to...
A tame church is a weak church. We were created to make hell nervous and to conduct spiritual warfare at the highest levels releasing the transforming power of God into all aspects of our world. Paul wrote “For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood...
On our first visit to London, Jan and I discovered the Underground. The Underground is a citywide rail system that is part of the daily fabric of life for Londoners allowing them to traverse the city with ease. Traveling on the Underground you quickly learn what a...