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On a walk through our town, I kept seeing bare branches of the trees holding water droplets. I felt impressed to take a photo to capture the image. When I got home, I looked at the photo. All the drops were out of focus, but the flag of the United States was a clear...
In all seasons of life, but especially at this time, we need to hear the voice of the Lord. All other voices will fail to provide the intimate instructions we need to navigate into an uncertain future. The Lord spoke these words through the prophet Amos, “Can two...
A few days ago, at about 6:00 am, I was driving to an out-of-town grocery store to do some shopping. As I drove through town, I noticed a truck parked in the parking lot of a local business with its bright beams on. I thought it was odd but went on to the market....
Maybe the hidden blessing at the end of this election cycle will be the sound of the death rattle of false hope. That sound will come with the last exhale of a deception that has been whispered into the ear of the Church hoping we would continue to believe that the...
Maybe the hidden blessing at the end of this election cycle will be the sound of the death rattle of false hope. That sound will come with the last exhale of a deception that has been whispered into the ear of the Church hoping we would continue to believe the...
Early this morning, I was driving northbound on Interstate 5 heading to a meeting in Eugene, Oregon. For the previous two hours of my drive, I was dividing my time between prayer and surfing the AM band for any available radio signal. ...
At the age of 16, I got a job at the local Kinney shoe store as a shoe salesman. We had to wear a coat and tie and look like we actually knew how to measure feet and sell shoes. We used shoehorns and had people place their feet on a little stool with a sloping...
People are becoming distracted from information overload. In the overload, God wants to bring clarity and understanding. It is a standing joke in our home that when I order a Netflix movie and it arrives with subtitles, I am disappointed. When I hit the play button on...
In high school, I took two years of journalism during my junior and senior years. Our assignment was to publish the weekly school paper. I can still remember the day our teacher told us about the 5 W’s and the H. She said each story would need to cover six elements in...
In our bedroom we have a digital clock. It displays the current time in glowing red numbers. The clock is only about two feet from my head. This morning, I opened my eyes and the clock was reading, “2:43”. In that moment a picture entered my mind. I saw a split screen...
A chain of unusual events, along with a stream of yet-to-be-fulfilled prophetic words, are coalescing and heading toward the United States like an approaching storm. Under the right circumstances, a string of natural storms can come together to form a river in...
In 1990, I traveled to the old Soviet Union a year before it finally collapsed. It still had the feel of old Russia. I was part of a group reviewing locations across the Soviet Union where we could send ministry teams. While in Moscow we visited Red Square and...
The labels of “Conspiracy Theorist”, “Wacko” and “Nut Job” have been used to describe people whose understanding of reality was way off the grid of what most people considered normal. I am sensing we have entered a time when some of the people who hold controversial...
Some of you are about to experience the equivalent of spiritual time travel. God is preparing to take you back in your memory to a place in time where He will reveal to you what you have not known. You will discover and come to understand a piece of your forgotten...
The phrase, Coup de Gras, is a term we use to describe a deathblow of mercy swiftly administered to end suffering. It is also written, Coup de Grace, depending on the dictionary one uses. There is another kind of Coup de Gras. The Coup de Gras of God is a swift and...