by Garris Elkins | Dec 1, 2017 | Apostle, Courage, Culture, Discipleship, Favor, Fear, Future, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Obedience, Prayer, Prophecy, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Transition, Wisdom
A couple of weeks ago, I read a Facebook comment from a friend who was part of a church that Jan and I pastored 30 years ago. My friend shared how he was finally stepping into a calling on his life I had prophesied to him those many years ago. He wasn’t...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 17, 2017 | Change, Church, Culture, Evangelism, Reconciliation, Reformation
Refuse to battle people and institutions. The real battle for the soul of a culture is a warfare empowered by love. It is always waged beyond the most visible and heated battle lines drawn by sensitive social issues like cultural diversity, race, gender, sexual...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 12, 2017 | Apostle, Church, Culture, Faith, Five-Fold Ministry, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Power, Revival, Spiritual Warfare, Transition
We live in a time of Church history where things are beginning to shake out and shake loose. The controlling grip of assumption, error and unhealthy images of God is being loosened. As this shaking intensifies, three groups will be affected. The first group reminds me...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 6, 2017 | Church, Culture, Death, Deliverance, Fear, Identity, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Peace, Redemption, Reformation, Truth
I have been up since 2:00 a.m. After watching the news about the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, my spirit was restless. I needed to get up to pray and write. For a few days something has been on my heart and this morning, I felt it was time to share my...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 3, 2017 | Culture, Freedom, Kingdom of God, Power, Prophecy, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare
There are times when it can seem that God has more work to do in the heart of the Church than in the hearts of those we call the unredeemed. The sound of our voice in culture needs to reflect the essence of the fruit of the Spirit listed by Paul in Galatians 5 –...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 1, 2017 | Change, Church, Courage, Culture
In recent months, I have met believers who have been struggling because they felt more comfortable outside the four walls of a traditional Church than inside. When these wanderers are discovered, some fellow believers have been quick to speak words of condemnation,...
