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Last night, I was awakened by the Lord. He wanted to speak to me. His word was simple, “Prepare.” This wasn’t a call to head to the local Army-Navy store or to buy a supply of food for survival in hard times, yet both of those choices have some merit. It was a word to...
Self-aggrandizement is not the mark of true leadership. For example, in the world of politics, some have entered office moderately blessed in life, but at the end of their term in office, they are worth millions of dollars. They wield influence not based on their...
Many in the Church are unaware of the power they carry regarding the presence of God. The most powerful influencers on Earth are not the power brokers of earthly institutions or those who use their wealth to do evil. The most powerful and influential ones are those...
I am sensing this is a time for the Church to discover, and for some to rediscover, the significance of where we are currently positioned in heaven, in Christ, at the right hand of the Father. In order to navigate what is before us we must first grasp this truth and...
Many believers are waiting for the “next big thing” God wants to do. The more I think about these “next big thing” mindsets, the more I have come to realize they are illusions. The next big thing God wants to do is witihin my heart and yours. He wants us to obey His...
I love to read people who understand history and the development of language. A couple of years ago I was struck by a paragraph within an article written by my Fulbright Scholar and Master of Fine Arts educated daughter: “When I taught literature to high school...
In the late 1970’s, I was a student at Ministries Institute at Faith Center in Eugene, Oregon. I had the privilege of listening to profound teachers each week. Names like Roy Hicks, Jr., Ron Mehl, Jack Hayford and Jerry Cook graced our pulpit. It was...
A couple of years ago, Jerry Cook came and spoke at our church. Jerry is one of my ministry heroes. For the last 30-plus years he has been a mentoring presence in my life through his writing and teaching. He has also functioned in this mentoring role to...
Each family will go through seasons of challenge and suffering in the course of a lifetime. As a family, we recently experienced one of those times. In the end, God showed up and pointed the situation in a new direction, but at the start we felt...
I will never forget the impact our eighth grade graduation speaker had on my young and developing life. The impact was not positive. I only remember the beginning words of his opening sentence. To his credit, he may have said more, but I shut down...
Twenty years ago, I sat in a large convention center with several thousand pastors. We were attending a denominational conference. One of the scheduled speakers had to cancel at the last moment and Roger Whitlow, a pastor of a large and impacting church in...
A television interview yesterday on The Dove TV about prayer, revival, leadership and God-Whispers.http://var/web/site/public_html.youtube.com/watch?v=GjFFt0tWdXI
I was afraid to go into Junior High School. Horror stories filled my young head about the “big kids” who really didn’t like little guys like me. We heard stories about getting our pants pulled down in front of girls. Much of what I lived in fear of never took place. ...
As a kid growing up we had one of those large, rubber-walled above ground swimming pools in our back yard. The pool stood three feet tall and was about twenty feet across. My brother and I would spend hours each summer swimming and playing in the water under the...
Some of us wait for the miracles to fall before we think a revival can begin. Others are waiting for a cultural icon to come to Christ to set off a line of spiritual dominos falling towards a massive move of God’s Spirit. Jesus had another plan – he said the...