by Garris Elkins | Dec 15, 2017 | Discipline, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Future, Identity, Kingdom of God, Mercy, Peace, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Transition, Trust, Vision., Wisdom
Albania was one of the most isolated and inaccessible nations in Eastern Europe during the years of Communist oppression. When the borders finally opened an outside world stepped across its border to discover a culture trapped in time. On my first visit to Albania, a...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 14, 2017 | Change, Discipleship, Discipline, Evangelism, Faith, Faithfulness, Fear, Future, Holy Spirit, Hope, Humility, Kingdom of God, Peace, Promotion, Reformation, Spiritual Warfare, Truth, Wisdom
I grew up in a construction family. My father built houses. Most of my summers were spent on the end of a shovel. My brother and I were human backhoes. Many times our father would say, “Give me a ditch three feet deep from here to the house. See you at lunch.” It was...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 9, 2017 | Change, Courage, Discipleship, Five-Fold Ministry, Gifts, Justice, Kingdom of God, Mercy, Pride, Teaching, Wisdom
The most significant piece of advice I ever received on how to preach, and for that matter, how to handle most of life, was given to me by my pastor, Roy Hicks. Jr. He said when you prepare to preach you are not yet ready until you can answer three questions. 1....
by Garris Elkins | Dec 7, 2017 | Change, Church planting, Courage, Culture, Holy Spirit, Justice, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Mercy, Power, Reformation, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
The announcement of the United States Embassy being relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has become a spiritual starter gun signaling the start of an unprecedented unfolding and coalescing of events on the world stage. A global transformation is about to move...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 6, 2017 | Church, Culture, Destiny, Evangelism, Faith, Five-Fold Ministry, Honor, Hope, Humility, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Prayer, Prophecy, Reformation, Revelation, Transition, Word
I visited the old Soviet Union when it was known as the USSR. At that time, the USSR still carried many of the old Cold War images we associate with Communism. I was traveling as a guest of a large travel agency who invited a group of us to see the nation and...
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...
