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The challenges we may soon face will require a tough faith. The terrain of what is before us will not be navigated by a weak and untested faith. A tough faith is a reliable faith able to ascend and descend unfamiliar and uneven spiritual terrain. Twenty years ago, a...
Not all who have been called to engage in spiritual warfare will assume their position in the battle. Some no longer believe such battles exist. They have stepped away from the conflict abdicating their role in defending truth. God is calling those with a willing...
The enemy of our soul has laid before us booby traps of deception. These spiritual booby traps appeal to our pride and naivety. Pride leads us into a place of vulnerability and then our naivety has us open the door to a well-planned attack that can take us out because...
This morning I was on my Twitter account and saw that some people on the other side of the globe had already begun to celebrate the New Year. Here on the West Coast of the United States we are still several hours away from 2011. Each New Year's Eve I make sure to be...
If you know me you know that I was a cop prior to becoming a pastor. That part of my life was over 30 years ago. The police experience never really leaves you, it just gets toned down and will always remain in some form. My wife calls me a protector. I go into a...
This morning I was hiking in the hills above my home like I do each week. I have hiked these trails for the past 8 years and come away from these times refreshed. Normally, I am a very observant person. Maybe this is because 30 years ago I was a police officer and you...
REFLECTING LEAF 11-3-10 On a hike this morning in the hills above Jacksonville I saw a fallen leaf shaped like a bowl filled with rainwater becoming a reflecting mirror of my face as I sought the face of God.TOWARDS FOREVER 12-11-10Like toy soldiers marching,wound up...
2011 will be a year of change and transition within the Church. This change and transition has already taken place in the spiritual realm. In the coming year these changes will become visible within the Church in greater measure. I am seeing four areas of change and...
Sociologists and cultural pollsters don't work with initial revelation - they study the history of past events. Those who leave a mark in this life walk into a developing history that is uncharted and undefined. Our heroes of faith are those who stepped into places...
On a hike this morning in the hills above Jacksonville I saw a fallen leaf shaped like a bowl filled with rainwater becoming a reflecting mirror of my face as I sought the face of God.
Poised and suspended now attached to what is known, familiar, doable. A release is coming, a falling and a rising up to meet me, of something new and undefined. Needing, even wanting, to see the release, trembling like a water droplet hanging on clinging amidst the...
I am in middle of God's blessing. This is one of the most significant seasons of God's presence and provision in my life - the most I have experienced in the last 30 years. All of this is taking place in the middle of a financial and emotional recession in our nation....
I would not venture to guess where she ends and I begin. Of one flesh we have become both losing ourselves and finding ourselves in that oneness. Still a mystery how we cannot tell where each ends and each begins. Of oneness we are.
I've seen fire and I've seen rain in the song and in this life. Burning passions fired for Creator a rain not quenching but flooding a distant longing and its approaching rumble has engulfed me A burning man quenched.
We all like flowers bloom and unfold. From bud to blossom, new to full, from young to old. The summit of a life cycle no one knows the height, the apex of life's arc from fullness to withered petal. But life is, from beginning to end, from tender shoot to brittle...