by Garris Elkins | Mar 14, 2017 | Courage, Death, Eternity, Forgivenss, Freedom, Honor, Resurrection, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
This morning, a story buried deep within my memory surfaced. It took place almost 40 years ago when I worked as a police detective. I was handed the lead on a homicide investigation. Attached to the investigation was a reporter from the Eugene-Register Guard newspaper...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 23, 2017 | Deliverance, Forgivenss, Freedom, Mercy, Prayer, Promise, Redemption, Relationships, Resurrection, Wisdom
I was getting ready to begin writing this morning when an image entered my mind. It was the image of a blast zone. This blast zone was the center of a target where an explosion would take place from the detonation of an incoming missile. Anyone or anything within the...
by Garris Elkins | Jan 25, 2017 | Courage, Deliverance, Discipline, Forgivenss, Identity, Love, Redemption, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare
There are things taking place around you that God does not want you to get used to. They were never meant for you to become comfortable with their presence in your life. It is time to break away and walk away. Once, while working vice, we got information of a...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 5, 2016 | Forgivenss
As a young teenager, I heard Richard Wurmbrand speak at a church in my home town. Wurmbrand was a pastor who had been incarcerated in a Romanian Communist prison for 14 years during the 1950’s and early 60’s. He underwent unimaginable torture and depravation during...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 28, 2016 | Forgivenss, Reconciliation, Redemption
You were hung on a relational clothesline and dismissed. You were literally hung out to dry. Those who did this to you thought by hanging you in this isolated place they would never see you again. But God had another outcome in mind. While you were hanging in...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 31, 2016 | Culture, Deliverance, Fathers, Forgivenss, Healing, Kingdom of God, Truth
For years, I have always wanted to write things that give people hope. I have believed that hope, not judgment, is the way forward. Today, I write this as an introduction to a video my wife, Jan, had the courage to post yesterday. To be honest, I wondered if posting...
