by Garris Elkins | Apr 3, 2019 | Courage, Deliverance, Discipleship, Discipline, Pride, Promotion, Provision, Trust, Truth
The private and unseen issues of character and integrity carry the greatest significance as you move higher in your calling. Don’t neglect them. If our character and integrity are left undisciplined, we will create, through neglect, the greatest jeopardy to...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 30, 2019 | Courage, Culture, Death, Discipleship, Discipline, Humility, Integrity, Kingdom of God, Love, Mercy, Pride, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
Someone put this sign in front of their home encouraging people to slow down as they transit our neighborhood. When I saw the sign, I thought of more than kids being harmed by careless drivers. I thought of the heated cultural climate in which we currently live. We...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 22, 2019 | Discipleship, Discipline, Family, Forgiveness, Freedom, Healing, Humility, Marriage, Pride, Reconciliation, Relationships, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
Have you noticed unhealthy critics rarely have original content to present? Their self-appointed mission in life is very narrow, birthed from the limited resource pool of their personal experience and worldview. A critic’s mission in life is to confront,...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 18, 2019 | Deliverance, Discipline, Freedom, God, Holy Spirit, Pride, Provision, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
In social media, there is something called “sponsored content”. Sponsored content is advertisement space a person or business purchases to push a product or a video repeatedly before a select audience. It is an attraction device. I have come to not like sponsored...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 27, 2019 | Courage, Deliverance, Discipline, Forgiveness, Healing, Holiness, Hope, Integrity, Prayer, Pride, Promotion, Restoration, Trust, Wisdom
The negative and demeaning conversations that take place behind your back and outside your presence are typically based on assumption and misinformation. These conversations are called gossip. Do not align your concern with an attempt to correct these sad...
by Garris Elkins | Feb 22, 2019 | Discipline, Faith, Freedom, Future, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Intimacy, Prayer, Pride, Revelation, Trust, Wisdom, Worship
Last night, a memory came to my mind of the time when our family lived in the Caribbean. The kids wanted to see Kingston, Jamaica from the air. I had not flown in a couple of years and wasn’t current so I could not rent an aircraft. I called up a local...