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From time to time, the Lord will lead me to worship Him with songs about the power of His blood. This attention to the blood is both an act of warfare and preparation. It's always a reminder that the Lord is doing something new and redemptive. I was once invited to...
Over the last 50 years, I've had what I would call multiple Pentecost experiences. In these experiences, I received a fresh anointing of the oil of God’s Spirit, equipping me to engage a new season. My task was to maintain that anointing by daily seeking God and His...
Many Christians obsess over the quality of other believers' faith. This obsession is the root cause of many of our divisions. If all participants can establish that Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life, all these divisions will work themselves out if we all...
I remember the first time it happened. Jan and I were returning from a conference in the first year of our pastoral ministry. We had driven eight hours away to spend a few days with fellow pastors and were on our return trip home. About an hour out, we felt a shift...
In a life of faith. it is important to know when to put the brakes on and when to accelerate. Without that knowledge, we will collide with things we could have avoided. I remember being trained as a young cop how to drive defensively. Our trainer was a man with a...
There are situations where the words “overwhelming evidence” are used to describe a crowd bias, not the complete truth of a matter. These lynch mobs feed off cultural emotion, not the wisdom of the Spirit. A mob will rush to the jail of bias to overcome due process...
A pruning of the assumptions we thought we would carry into the future is taking place. Some are wasting their sorrow over the pruning because they do not understand its purpose. In the coming days, we will see the "why" for the removal of our assumptions. It is a...
Every morning I do an exercise called “The Plank.” It works my body from head to toe. Its most important benefit is what it does to my core. To be strong at the core of our body affects the immediate areas of muscle and skeletal structure, but its most important...
For the last few months, I have been having dreams within dreams. Last night I had several. The initial dream was a portal that led me to the discovery of a second dream contained within the first. In the first dream, I had the ability to consciously interact with the...
When great sorrow occurs and what we love is cut down, in that place of deep and unimagined sorrow, hope is always present waiting to be revealed. At first, hope is difficult to see while we stand together before the stump of someone or something that was once alive...
It's nothing new that people would call evil good and good evil or that something known throughout the history of the Church as darkness would now be celebrated as light. In some circles of faith, it might even be considered unloving to define something as evil or a...
One of the expressions of our faith that tells the world we are followers of Jesus Christ is our ability to rest in the midst of turmoil. Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). Finding that rest requires...
The prophets of God are warning the Church about what will take place in the coming months. Their messages are not being issued to create alarm. Prophetic announcements are being released to prepare our souls to live in peace, not fear. Those who carry that peace will...
Throughout history, there has always been a policing presence used by governments or coalitions of governments to enforce the dictates of an invading power. The Babylonians and Romans used their governors and soldiers to occupy and force the compliance and submission...
God can hit a moving target even if the target is moving away from Him. God’s aim is not focused on the challenging circumstance of a person's life. His target is always the heart. No matter how fast and how far a prodigal is moving away from God, how far a spouse has...