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Amid the growing national division and turmoil taking place in America, the Church has been planted in each city to reverse a descent into greater expressions of evil. Our presence and witness have the power to turn the spiritual tide and bring hope for a better...
We are living in a time when expressing an opinion can make us a target for an insult. No one will be immune to these assaults. Some insults are expressed by a passive-aggressive personality that may sound legitimate at first, but were created to confront, not to...
Whenever we speak or write something, we must ask ourselves a series of questions; without asking those questions, what we say or write will not come from a deeper place of personal introspection. First and foremost is the question, "How does this apply to me?"...
Our religious traditions and personal opinions about matters of faith do not always reveal the Lord. They can make us falsely assume we have discovered all there is to know, but that is a faulty and blinding assumption to make. When John the Baptist was calling out...
I used to fly for a living to augment our meager income when I was a young pastor. I trained pilots and flew charters. In that season of life, I become discouraged. I wanted to escape from the pressure of ministry. During that time, I was offered opportunities to fly...
When Scripture uses an eagle as a metaphor, we don’t always understand what we are reading. A metaphor can never fully capture the immensity and depth of God. Metaphors are used to gain our attention to express a deeper truth. I’ve seen hundreds of eagles who would...
The greatest danger facing the Church today does not come from outside influences that obviously stand against biblical truth. It comes from those within our ranks who masquerade as followers of Jesus Christ who appear sincere and likable but are used by hell to...
It is a challenge to live a life of faith in a compromised world where evil is called good and good is called evil. It is into that confused world where the Lord has placed His Church as citizens of His Kingdom, not to control others by force, but influence them for...
Sin makes us weary. It’s a weariness that comes from trying to carry the unrepented oppression of sin. That oppression makes our life feel like we are trapped in a small room with no windows and no air conditioning in the heat of summer. We begin to suffocate. Back in...
What we can fail to realize about the exercise of a spiritual gift is its ability to shake up our life and the lives of others in ways we did not anticipate. Their use will bring light into dark places and challenge demonic strongholds – not just within the Church,...
Last night, Jan and I watched the movie Nefarious. It’s about a man on death row awaiting execution. He was demon-possessed. The movie was remarkable and, in some scenes, a biblically accurate dialogue between the demon-possessed man and a psychiatrist who began his...
I believe we have entered a critical juncture in human history. The Lord is bringing all things together toward a point of convergence. He is employing unusual and unimagined ways to accomplish that convergence and fulfill the intent of His will. In the last year,...
If we have placed our faith in Jesus, the real Jesus, not some mystical New Age representation of a lesser god among many, and our singular faith has caused hardship, even persecution, that is nothing compared to the suffering of those who are recorded in biblical...
The worst prisons are the ones we have been convinced do not exist. In that convinced state, we become the warden of our own imprisonment guarding the walls of our mind against any attempt to escape and discover a deeper reality where truth exists. After writing to...
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