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Recently, I found out there are morgues on cruise ships. I never thought people would die on a cruise, but when you have thousands of people comprising the population of a small town, the odds are someone will die along the way. It reminded me of some of our...
Over the years, I’ve preached about the potter’s wheel in Jeremiah 18. When I preached the story, I stopped short of the other events in that chapter. I wanted to portray a word of hope. But there is more to the story than just a pot being reformed. It was the events...
It was almost 50 years ago when the Lord told me to stop reading the daily horoscope in our local newspaper. It wasn’t like I followed any advice offered. I was just curious. In all the years since I was given that instruction, I haven’t read another horoscope....
There are deceptions afoot like the one that took place between Israel and the Gibeonites as recorded in Joshua 9. In one moment of time, without inquiring of the Lord, Israel was deceived and blindly entered into an agreement with an enemy nation - an agreement based...
Don’t confuse the consequence of sin with the judgment of God. Much of the pain and sorrow that takes place in the lives of people and nations is the consequence of sin, not the judgment of God. The remainder of suffering is a shared vulnerability we all experience...
I have arrived at a place called, Senior Citizenship. I am not sure when this took place, but it has arrived. The first indicators were the mailings from AARP that began arriving in my mailbox in my late 40’s. Another reminder was the stray gray hair that appeared...
Each generation will have prophetic words spoken over them from the fathers and mothers of faith who represent a previous generation. Jan and I have had those kinds of words spoken over us by people like Dick Mills and Jean Darnall and others with a similar...
Recently, our family was having a leisurely summer dinner on our patio. At the end of the meal, my daughter directed my attention to a rock on the deck just behind my chair. When I turned to look at the rock a word sprung up unexpectedly in my heart with such...
“Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!”I Corinthians 13:9 When Paul penned these words he was sharing a principle for life and especially for prophetic ministry. Nothing we do or say is...
At some point you will share a word with someone and they will not like what they hear. They may disagree with your delivery or even the content of your theology. The wider the audience for your ministry becomes the more this will happen – sometimes with regularity....
Every life will have those moments when something so significant takes place that it indelibly marks your life forever. These events become the before and after point for everything else that follows. These marker events can be a divorce, assassination of a public...
The prophetic gift is not a water faucet you turn on and off at your pleasure. There will be times when you do not have a word to share. It is important for your integrity and for the safety of those to whom you minister that you do not put yourself in a place...
One of the most challenging things we can do is bring a word of correction. Hopefully, these corrective words are rare and birthed only by a merciful work of the Spirit and not by our own impatience or frustration at the level of brokenness we see in the lives of the...
The farther an experience moves away from our current reality the greater the chance that experience will someday become only a legend to future generations. The first disciples did not let this happen. They lived in the daily demonstration of God’s power and presence...
The Lord may ask you to stand between someone who is guilty of a wrong and their accusers who are pointing out that wrong in vivid detail. In this place some of the most challenging and powerful prophetic statements are delivered without words. Here is where...