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Last night in a dream, I was sitting with a group of leaders in the Church. As they spoke about the success of their ministries, they spoke about what they needed to accomplish as the goals of their respective ministries. In a pause in the conversation, it was my turn...
Every few months, as I hike the trails above our home, I need to transition between forest lands on a section of paved road. It had been a few months since I hiked that stretch of roadway. On a previous hike, I noticed several discarded bottles of Fireball whiskey...
The title of this post is from an old children’s hymn. Its title is appealing to some who have reduced Jesus to a warm and fuzzy cuddle doll, not the full spectrum of His life. They do not allow their theology of Jesus to hint at a demonstration of His power and...
The leaks of censorship on our social media platforms and conversations held in closed-door meetings with evil agendas are beginning to take place. Expect frantic attempts to plug those leaks in the coming days. There will be invitations for us to “move on, nothing to...
When so much is taking place in our world that seems out of our control, it can be overwhelming to process. It can also be mystifying how we should respond when we discover information that reveals things that seem overwhelming and beyond our ability to influence. At...
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...