by Garris Elkins | Aug 4, 2011 | Church, Leadership, Revelation, Revival
Today, I took my weekly prayer-hike in the mountains above our home. I love this scheduled appointment with the Lord. I come away refreshed and renewed each week. As I finished my hike, I stopped at a hillside concert area called, “The Britt”. The Britt is...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 11, 2011 | Church, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Revival
Recently, Jan was rearranging our library. She found a book I thought I had sent to the Foursquare Church headquarters in Los Angeles 15 years ago to archive in the Foursquare Heritage library. But here it was, unsent after all these years, containing a wonderful and...
by Garris Elkins | Jul 7, 2011 | Church, Kingdom of God, Leadership
In 1999 my wife and I returned to the United States after almost four years of ministry in Europe. When we got off the airplane all of our earthly belongings consisted of the bags we had just cleared through Customs and a single chair and some extra boxes of books...
by Garris Elkins | Jun 16, 2011 | Church, Hope, Humility, Restoration
On a recent trail hike I noticed a madrone tree branch above my head. I was so impressed by what I saw that I snapped a picture. The image of the twisted branch caught my attention because it had so obviously made a u-turn in its growth pattern. Like other tree...
by Garris Elkins | May 8, 2011 | Church, Culture, Forgiveness, Hope, Transition
Each life is like a photo album that contains snapshots of individual moments in time. No life is fully defined by a single image. We are made up of a composite of our experiences.One snapshot of time does not define our identity.Our identity is in a Person, not in a...
by Garris Elkins | Apr 7, 2011 | Church, Hope, Leadership, Vision.
When I was a young pastor-in-training the church I was part of was Faith Center in Eugene, Oregon,. This wonderful church took a step of faith with me and let me try my hand at counseling people. I was so green and yet there I was – in a real office sitting...
