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Two unique events took place when Jesus appeared to His disciples after His resurrection. He appeared to His fearful disciples who were shut behind closed doors. Among other words of affirmation, He said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins,...
When Jesus sent out the twelve disciples, He gave them instructions on how to express their faith. The Lord said, “I am sending you out as sheep among wolves” (Matthew 10:16). The calling to follow Jesus would not be a faith walk in the park. The Lord did not...
The Sermon on the Mount has been romanticized by some without taking what Jesus said to a deeper level. We could call the Sermon on the Mount the Sermon of Doing. Jesus is speaking into a religious system of works that suit the presence of imposters, not a true...
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...
For a couple of years our family lived in downtown Los Angeles. Echo Park to be exact. Jan and I directed part of a missions agency that sent ministry teams around the world. Two times a day Jan would drive our two kids to and from school in Pasadena. We had to...