by Garris Elkins | Sep 28, 2014 | Change, Church, Death, Deliverance, Destiny, Dreams, Eternity, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Identity, Kingdom, Kingdom of God
(“Thoughts I Want To Leave Behind” is a collection of thoughts and impressions I want to leave behind as I begin to make my final pastoral transition.) #8 Endings Nothing is ever over until God says its over. Never let people, a painful circumstance or the devil...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 26, 2014 | Dreams, Eternity, Faith, Freedom, Joy, Kingdom of God, Miracles
There is a roof over your head. This is not like the roof of your physical home, but one constructed by your attempts to cover and protect yourself from the sorrows of life. You have forgotten that you walk under open heavens. The realms above you were...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 20, 2014 | Change, Destiny, Eternity, Family, Favor, Future, Healing
The book of your life contains more than one chapter. You have been looking at recent events like they are the whole story of your life. They aren’t. These events are only a single chapter in a developing story. There is more to be written about your life....
by Garris Elkins | Aug 1, 2014 | Eternity, Future, Hope
My skin is turning parchment. The years of my aging now yielding to familial DNA, to youthful days running bare in the sun. There is a coming to grips with this process of life and living, a reality check of sorts. All of this is good, this emerging gray and wrinkling...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 22, 2013 | Death, Eternity, Future, Hope, Love, Resurrection
Some couples don’t like to talk about death with their spouse, but Jan and I are comfortable with such a conversation. Unless we both enter eternity together – one of us will remain behind. That is a reality of life. In 1999, we moved to Southern Oregon. Our first...
