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In 1991, I visited Russia when it was still the old Soviet Union. Later that year, the Soviet Union dissolved, and Ukraine became a free and separate nation. The first leg of my visit took me to Moscow, the seat of Soviet power. The city felt dark and foreboding. We...
There are reasons why the Church can descend into a limited version of faith without expecting something more. In that state, we will represent a dull and lifeless faith, not expecting that something more will be revealed. After the miraculous healing of a lame man at...
Thirty years ago, Jan and I lived in Berlin, Germany. We were assigned to help coordinate the missions ministries of the Foursquare Church in Eastern Europe. As we continued in our assignment, we were invited to speak and teach across other European nations. After a...
What has held people in bondage is beginning to unravel on a global scale. In January of 2019, I wrote a prophetic word about what was coming, an unraveling that is currently underway. Those held in bondage to manufactured facts, deceptive reporting, and censorship of...
I took a picture of this pitiful worm right after a rainstorm. The worm along with hundreds of others just like it had left the safe soil of the earth to crawl out onto the pavement and die. The sad plight of the worm reminds me of a life of faith. Our only safe place...
One of the positive things to come out of this time of social isolation is spiritual hunger. People are hungry for more. It would be unfair and unrealistic to attach to a pastor the demand to provide all we need in the form of teaching and fellowship. That must become...
A dangerous stretch of spiritual and cultural whitewater is approaching. Those who have been trained by faith will possess the necessary skills required to safely navigate the coming rapids My son-in-law is an expert kayaker. He has kayaked challenging rapids both in...
A significant spiritual deprogramming is taking place. This deprogramming is a work of God’s Spirit. It is causing people to wake up from all forms of deception that held them in bondage - spiritual, cultural, and relational bondage. These...
The use of labels has another purpose beyond simply identifying someone or something. It has become a tool used to prepare people to reject a person or an idea before they are discerning enough to make an informed decision. The news media and academia are the cultural...
Affixing the label of misinformation to an opposing point of view is a tactic of control. It presumes people are ignorant, unable to make their own informed decisions. Whenever a government or private entity decides what is acceptable and limits free expression and...
I began writing this word a few weeks ago but did not have the final content until this morning. The word was parked away in my writing file until an image came that gave the word its intended content. The word is about drawing lines in the sands of life. We all draw...
One of the greatest challenges of the Christian faith is how it interfaces with culture. An interface is defined as a point where two things meet and interact. I have tried to look beyond the current struggles taking place at this moment in time and imagine how...
This morning just before getting out of bed, I was processing some thoughts about the Lord. I considered what I would ask Him if we had a conversation here on Earth - not a time of prayer, but a real face-to-face sit-down meeting. The longer I pondered that thought...
God’s ability to lead us into truth is greater than Satan’s ability to lead us into error. Where we place our hope in times of increasing deception will become the testimony of our lives.
Understanding how we arrive at our assumptions is as important as the assumptions themselves. Assumptions are created by the programming that has molded our lives and our current way of thinking. The source of an assumption is discovered when we understand the...