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In God’s Kingdom, the innocent pay for the guilty. Only then is restoration possible. Jesus modeled this for us when He offered Himself on the Cross on our behalf. One of the most beautiful and powerful stories of reconciliation occurred between Esau and Jacob. Esau...
When we have been cheated and abused, the Lord has a plan to release us from our suffering by redeeming the pain we have experienced. It may take longer than we thought to reach a final resolution, but the waiting is worth the outcome. One of the most dishonoring...
We can too easily forget the magnitude and breadth of our faith. None of us are insignificant. We are part of a long history of relationships with God, first established with Abraham and continuing to the present. That relationship revealed its fullness in the person...
Jan and I have visited London several times. On our first visit, we noticed something we had never seen before. It was a sign painted on the platform of the train station that read, “Mind the Gap.” The sign is a warning to train passengers to be careful when stepping...
This week, I heard a new word - “shrinkflation.” Shrinkflation is a reduction in the size or volume of a retail product, especially packaged goods. Shrinkflation occurs when manufacturers retain the same price as before when more product was placed in the package, but...
While wars and rumors of wars rage and division and hatred intensify, there is one thing that will create a steady platform where our mind and emotions can stand and feel secure. Discovering that one thing is a treasure beyond measure. God has not changed His nature....
The Lord is sending individuals into frontiers of spiritual conflict to become Kingdom force multipliers. They will work in concert with people of very different faith expressions, so different it could be prematurely concluded the two groups could never get along,...
The new thing God is doing carries a supernatural potential that will only be experienced by looking in a new and different direction. The choice to change our line of sight will reveal spiritual imagery we might have missed while our vision was focused in another...
A slumbering Church is being awakened. In our contentment of spiritual sleep, we have not been able to see the deeper realities taking place in the world. The closed eyelids of our slumber have blinded us to truths only realized through revelation. Something unusual...
Yesterday, I experienced extreme road rage. Not just someone who flipped me off and drove off, but an aggressive driver whose actions could have killed me and others. I was traveling on I-5 the major north-south freeway in Oregon. The section I was driving was in the...
The greater the distance one is removed from the reality of what is taking place, either by geography or relationship, the greater the chance their understanding of reality can become distorted. While it is good to be what many define as “informed”, we should never...
In the coming generations, the idols people worship will not be made of stone or wood. They will be super-humans elevated to God-like status through genetic manipulation and engineering. We need to pray for future generations of the Church who will face issues that...
A few weeks ago, Jan and I were invited to participate in a regional prophetic roundtable. The attendees were leaders from Oregon and Southwest Washington who were known for their prophetic insight. It was an honor to be with them. Before the gathering, each of us was...
The voices that have mocked, dismissed and labeled people as conspiracy theorists are beginning to experience an uncomfortable awakening to reality. Those who listened to the voices that declared a prepared deceptive narrative believing it to be true are now at a...
New prophetic voices are speaking from the summit of the mountains of cultural influence. These voices don’t sound like the prophets who live and speak from within the mountain of religion. They do not prophesy using familiar religious language or imagery. In the next...