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A state of war has been declared in Israel on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The war was triggered by attacks from Hamas who began the war by firing 5,000 rockets into southern Israel. Terrorist teams have been sent over the border into Israel by...
An impacting faith requires two things – tension and traction. The tension happens when we discover the difference between good and evil. Traction occurs when we take our faith outside the sanctuary into the streets of the real world and apply it to the very practical...
A single image projected to others that captured a single moment or season of our life is not always what we want other people to use to interpret our lives. It’s like being caught in a moment of undress or a situation lacking decorum. To capture such images and...
One morning last week, I was praying in our sanctuary. I was seated near our drum enclosure. This drum enclosure allows our drummers to play with freedom and passion, yet not overwhelm the room. We have the drum set running through our sound system...
I had a dream. It was a dream so vivid I actually thought it was real. In the dream I was in the lobby of a large church sitting at one of the coffee tables. The room was crowded. The pastor of this large and influential ministry walked through the...
Every 11 years something significant takes place on the Sun – the polar regions reverse. North becomes south and south becomes north. This event takes place at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun's inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself. The reversal of...
Last Sunday, Ryan Rhoden was speaking to our church about the transition in leadership that will take place at Living Waters Church in Medford, Oregon in October of 2014. In his message he said, "It would be unhealthy for us to stay the way we are as a church...this...
This week we were in a time of corporate prayer at Living Waters Church in Medford, Oregon. Our worship pastor, Andy Southmayd, was leading us in a moment of unscripted and spontaneous worship. Andy began to sing the words, “Break down the walls”. He sang...
For the last few weeks the Lord has been speaking to me and saying that He is releasing new names for a new season. As I waited and listened to the Lord, He began to share His heart for His Church. “You are about to experience a name change. This will not be a change...
When I read the story of Judas Iscariot betraying Jesus, I find myself wanting to distance myself from him. Maybe my need to keep my distance is because I have found him living in me from time-to-time when I have betrayed the things that God holds dear. This...
The Church has not been called, as its first priority, to save nations. The Church has been called to advance God’s Kingdom. In the advancement of God’s Kingdom, nations will eventually be saved. When we reverse this order and mount campaigns of national...
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...