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Scripture offers some very strong words regarding people who create unnecessary division within the Church. They are called liars and deceivers with evil motives, “Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble” (Proverbs 6: 14). Scripture...
I was given an assignment from the Lord a couple of years ago. My assignment was that if I choose to watch a video or see a photo of a stumbling leader; I must choose to pray for that person. On occasion, I have failed to fulfill that assignment, but it still remains...
\ The nations of the world are groaning under the leadership of compromised leaders. God has a plan to bring transformation to those nations through a process of spiritual reformation. I listened to an interview with the president of El Salvador. I realized I was...
Since the publication of my book, The Sound of Reformation, I have been talking to people about their place of ministry. No longer does the phrase “going into the ministry” make any real Kingdom sense if it means in order for someone to engage in a life of ministry...
You may need to exit a toxic relationship, a financial struggle or a season of wandering without purpose. Until you initiate a plan to walk away from these situations and into a place of peace and provision, you could languish in their pain longer than...
As a young pastor, everything was new to me. One part of that newness was the fact that we were pioneering a church in Kalispell, Montana. I had never been to Montana. That has been a repeated theme for each new ministry assignment Jan and I have accepted over the...
I watched a video about a 92-year-old World War II veteran. He was a crewmember on a TBM Avenger aircraft. He was being honored at an airshow and given an opportunity to sit once again in a crewmember seat of a TBM where he sat many times during perilous combat...
Refuse to battle people and institutions. The real battle for the soul of a culture is a warfare empowered by love. It is always waged beyond the most visible and heated battle lines drawn by sensitive social issues like cultural diversity, race, gender, sexual...
A limited, and sometimes shrinking demographic can become your loudest voice of support. Those who want things to remain the same are not always happy with the possibility of change. Many times this group will sense a change is coming and will increase the volume of...
A friend of mine, Keith Jenkins, shared a story on his Facebook wall that was so poignant it arrested my heart and my emotions. Fifty-eight years ago today, a little black girl named Ruby Bridges was escorted into a segregated school by federal marshals. Her beautiful...
In 1968, at age 60, my father had a heart attack. For a man who was a carpenter and had to work with his hands to make a living, this changed everything. After his heart attack, my father took a remodeling job in an adjoining city with a plan for a house to...
A significant step in the reformation currently taking place in culture will be the connection of revival silos. In agricultural terms, a silo is a tall cylindrical container that stores grain for future delivery. These silos are huge. Many of them are several stories...
This morning, I sat down in front of my laptop computer to begin writing. I wanted to update a document I was working on by synchronizing the font style of the various files I had imported from different sources that don’t use my preferred font. I randomly placed my...
Last week, I called a hotel where I was booked to stay over the weekend. I spoke with a woman at the front desk. She was kind and patient with my question, one I am sure she has had to answer a thousand times before. As soon as the phone call was over, I felt a nudge...
If you are seeking a resolution for a situation where human failure is involved and that resolution does not include a second chance for the guilty you have not yet discovered the heart of God in the process.