by Garris Elkins | Sep 18, 2018 | Creativity, Culture, Discipline, Freedom, Gifts, Honor, Humility, Justice, Pride, Promotion, Reconciliation, Relationships, Teaching, Truth, Wisdom
I use a writing program called Grammarly. Grammarly was suggested to me by a friend who is an accomplished, best-selling author. The program has been very helpful. It has revealed the places in my grammar that need improvement. Each month, I get a copy of...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 12, 2018 | Change, Creavity, Discipleship, Family, Freedom, Pride, Restoration, Transtion, Trust
It’s been almost 50 years since Woodstock took place on Yasgur’s farm on a grassy hillside in Bethel, New York. 400,000 people showed up to listen to Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, and many others. It was an iconic moment in American history. I read a...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 4, 2018 | Church, Courage, Discipline, Future, Gifts, Integrity, Leadership, Love, Pride, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, Trust, Vision.
Every voice has an audience, and every audience has expectations. This applies to a stay at home parent whose life is focused on kids, a prophet with an international ministry platform or a local pastor who speaks before a congregation each Sunday. In the relationship...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 2, 2018 | Discipline, Faith, Fear, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Miracles, Pride, Revelation, Teaching
Life can become a perilous journey when we choose to ignore the logic of Scripture and its historical context to affirm a favored theology or a point of doctrine. God gave us the gift of logic to keep us safe and sane when life around us seems dangerous and crazed....
by Garris Elkins | Sep 1, 2018 | Courage, Culture, Discipline, Fear, Freedom, Honor, Justice, Leadership, Mercy, Pride, Reconciliation
Lately, my dreams have been intensifying. The level of reality and color in what I dream is becoming high-definition in nature. Each night, I kneel at our bed and pray for the night. I pray for protection, and I pray for revelation in my dreams. Two nights ago,...
by Garris Elkins | Aug 31, 2018 | Destiny, Faith, Freedom, Future, Jesus, Peace, Pride, Promotion, Resurrection, Revelation, Wisdom, Worship
Everything in this life is passing away. At the end of all things, only love will remain. Our accomplishments, successes, and breakthroughs will eventually yield to the outcome of love. Love will purify all we have done and present everything to the Lord as the...
