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With yet again another conflict taking place in the Middle East and various parts of the Church trying to define the conflict and its perpetrators, the Lord still honors His pledge to Israel. We talk about the civil government of Israel as being different than the...
On a recent hike, I discovered the discarded door from an old, abandoned car. Over the years, the door had become a target. It was filled with bullet holes. The shot-up door resembles some of you who feel discarded and shot through by betrayal and abandonment. The...
The Lord spoke a powerful sentence in the middle of His confrontation of the people's ability to create idols who cannot perform or stand on their own, "I have prepared you even though you do not know me" (Isaiah 45:5). All of our life is a preparation to believe in...
In our world where being woke has become a badge of honor for some, a document like the Declaration of Independence has fallen out of favor. The document has become an opportunity to attach unseemly labels to those who honor its principles. Those labels are part of...
If you have been gifted with prophecy or you are someone who is prophetically inclined, you must be willing to address subjects you have been told to remain silent about. Prophecy penetrates barriers of deception that exist within the culture and the Church....
It has been 40 years since I fired up a wood stove. The last time was in the early 80s when our family lived in a 100-year-old ranch house in Kalispell, Montana. The house was not insulated. On cold mornings, my boots would freeze to the floor in the boot room. Our...
Our plans for ministry do not release the power of God. Obedience does. When God decides to move, He moves. No plan of ours can take credit for such divine intervention. In one meeting Peter relayed what happened. “As I began to speak the Spirit fell on them, just as...
Any individual or group that offers a vision of the future apart from the will of God is like offering someone a sinking rowboat filled to the gunnels with water. It will eventually sink. These sinking vessels are failed attempts to find direction without the rudder...
Last week, Jan and I watched the movie, Noah. One of our favorite actors, Russell Crowe, starred in the film. We saw the movie when it first came out in 2014, but since it has been a while since we last watched it, we watched it again. The film takes liberty with the...
Truth has a way of walking out of tombs of censorship and secrecy to be resurrected into the light of day for all to see. No fact and no plan to hide the full measure of truth can escape the power of resurrection. In my lifetime, I have seen two very...
It feels like we are being herded down a hallway leading to a destination that is not of our choice. God gave us a powerful tool that enables us to open up a new way and begin moving in a different direction. That tool is faith. It is not faith in world systems or...
We need to be careful when we read the whole of biblical history and think it does not apply to our lives today. Some have dissected God’s word using the scalpel of their preferred theology to remove certain aspects of the unchanging God that make them uncomfortable....
In each new season, the Lord gives me a word for the Church. I preach that word wherever I speak until the season is over. Typically, these seasonal words come from something I see in the Spirit. For the fall of 2022, I saw a large gate leading to the future. It had...
Spending time on my stationary exercise bike has taught me something about the life of faith. Being faithful does not always mean we are going somewhere. Being faithful in the small things day in and day out conditions us for those times when we need to move under the...
Today, we are having a woodstove installed in our home. We already have gas heat, but the woodstove will share the heating duty in the future. Its real purpose is to be available when our energy supply is either limited or not available. I have laid up a supply of...