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Remembering God’s goodness and His greatness protects us from all forms of deception. Today, the Lord is testing the Church, calling us to remember and not forget how He worked in us in the past so we will continue to hold true to Him in the future. After Joshua died,...
The Church has always been tempted to become more like the nations where we live than to remain a distinctly different kind of people. From the beginning to the end of our lives, we will be tested to determine the quality of our faith and who we will worship. Life is...
Of late, with all that is happening in the world and in the lives of people we love, Jan and I are spending more time praying together in the Spirit. This is not abandoning a prayer list. It is taking our prayers beyond the list to a place only the Spirit knows. The...
I've always believed the accounts of Jesus' miracles. I have carried that belief since the day I was first saved as a young boy. It has been an unshakeable belief in what the world considers to be impossible. In that belief, I held onto my young and innocent faith,...
There comes a time in our process of spiritual maturity that we stop crying about the pains of life we experience. It is there when we discover a critical truth. The attached quick video explains what I am thinking....
The phrase “the fear of God” has received a bad reputation from those who do not understand its meaning. This fear is a reverence for the Lord, and it’s nothing to shy away from, even when some people want to write it out of the pages of Scripture for fear that it...
Last week, Jan and I hiked one of the trails that surround our town. We had to cut across our historic cemetery to continue our hike. As we walked across the cemetery property, I noticed a stack of plastic coffin containers. These containers are used to place a coffin...
We see the debris of what is called the Deep State expressed in the governments of nations. Some in the Church attempt to fight this battle in the natural realm rather than in the realm of the Spirit. In doing so, their efforts remain futile, and nothing changes. We...
This week, Elon Musk revealed the latest version of AI (Artificial Intelligence). It is called Grok 4. Its development will come in the next few years and will be powerful beyond our wildest imagination. This level of AI will gather all available information regarding...
God's word confronts those who fail to teach in clear terms what offends God. These teachers refuse to say what needs to be said. This happened in the history of Israel just as it continues to happen in our day. By bringing the content of this word, what I am writing...
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...
Jesus said, “I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). The word for “world” is the word “cosmos.” It defines all of humanity and its systems that are hostile to God. Because of that reality, the Church should be the least stressed group of people on Earth. Jesus has...
When we learn about the gift of prophecy, our first lesson to learn is that it is God speaking, not a human. While God will use His servants to verbally transmit or demonstrate His message, it is God who is speaking to us. Knowing it's His voice that is giving us a...