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The Spirit has placed gifts in the Church not just for our edification and healing. Some have a different purpose. One of the gifts of the Spirit is the ability to call out an error that can lead a Church to veer off the path of truth and embrace an error. When Paul...
In a marriage, we don’t have a partner. We have a husband or wife—a man and woman united in a unique expression of oneness with God. While a husband and wife may partner together in the responsibilities of this life, it is their bond of marriage, not the tasks they...
Some sins are being allowed, even celebrated in the Church. These sins exist because we have abandoned the restraints of Scripture and allowed sin to remain unchallenged. Paul wrote about our response to these sins, "So, don't make judgments about anyone ahead of...
In all my years, the one thing I have seen that can open doors of opportunity in the most profound ways has been the extension of favor when favor was not expected. Favor is a key with supernatural power. Favor has been defined as gracious and kind or an action...
When I was a young SWAT cop, our five-man team was scheduled to train with sniper instructors at the Army base in Fort Ord, California. Our day began with some bleacher time. We sat before a team of instructors learning the skills required to deliver a round downrange...
I watched a video of two guys fishing off the coast of Cape Cod when an earthquake took place. The noise they heard was other-worldly. From their reactions, you can see the fishermen had no context for the sound. The video reminds me of what it might be like when a...
Forecasting the future based on the assumptions of the past is a grave error. A global shift of power is taking place and moving eastward away from the historic familiarity of western prominence. A developing alliance of economies and military resources in the east...
When undeniable truth appears and becomes obvious to the spiritually minded those facts will still be denied by people who refuse to believe the truth no matter how clear the truth becomes. The most visible works of God, works that are undeniable to a rational mind,...
It has been over 30 years since I watched the Oscars. Even then, my interest was already in rapid decline. I don’t care for the glitch or the red carpet. This morning, I happened to see a clip from last night's Oscars on one of my social media feeds. Chris Rock, a...
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...