by Garris Elkins | Oct 24, 2018 | Dreams, Eternity, Gifts, God, Intimacy, Love, Restoration, Verse
It’s all art, this creativity. We write soul-poetry looking over still water as loons cry our verse written upon early morning mist parchment. Touching smooth river stones we sculpt, arranging little rock piles in river shallows balancing their...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 23, 2018 | Apostle, Church, Courage, Eternity, Father, God, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Love, Promotion, Reformation, Teaching, Tranistion, Wisdom, Worship
Yesterday, a hero of mine passed away. Eugene Peterson was known to many for his translation of the Bible called, The Message. I was able to correspond with Eugene a couple of times over the last few years. We talked about writing and leadership. He said he looked...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 12, 2018 | Courage, Death, Deliverance, Discipleship, Discipline, Family, Father, Fear, Freedom, Leadership, Love, Marriage, Mercy, Revelation, Trust
All my life, I have been a protector. I once protected my little brother from a neighborhood bully. In the 6th grade, I got in a fight defending a Native American friend who was surrounded by mocking white kids who were issuing racial slurs. When I married Jan, I have...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 5, 2018 | Creativity, Culture, Death, Deliverance, Discipleship, Fear, Freedom, Healing, Intimacy, Jesus, Love, Relationships, Trust, Truth, Worship
When I was on the football team at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, our coach asked if any members of the team could help a friend. The coach’s friend was a doctor who lived in the northern panhandle of Idaho. He was a sheep rancher. In the winter of 1969,...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 25, 2018 | Deliverance, Destiny, Fear, Freedom, Future, Identity, Love, Pride, Redemption, Restoration, Truth, Wisdom
Wisdom does not always provide easy answers. Neither does it answer the deep questions about life from the same shallow resource pool of information used by the asker to frame their inquiry. Wisdom responds from a deeper source of revelation not considered when...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 21, 2018 | Courage, Discipleship, Faith, Freedom, Justice, Love, Mercy, Obedience, Spiritual Warfare, Supernatural, Teaching, Wisdom
This morning, I was corresponding with a friend who is an American citizen living outside the United States. We were talking about life and faith. As I wrote to him, I remarked, “I realize now that I know less than my assumptions have led me to...
