RETURNING TO OUR FOUNDATION

Wise leadership will always keep in mind the foundation the Lord used to build upon what they now steward. In the substance of that foundation are the elements God will use to guide and resurrect the faith of a family, a church, or a denomination when they lose their...

THE NAKED NATURE OF TRUTH

Those who are currently speaking the truth of God’s word in our culture seem out of step with the spirit of the age. They appear like naked people, oddities reminiscent of an antiquated belief system. They are mocked and labeled as uniformed, intolerant, and unloving...

CONFUSED AND COMPROMISED

Today, we are surrounded by a variety of wicked and perverse ideologies. Much of it is being forced upon us and demanding that we accept these ideologies as the new normal. We are being surrounded like it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah when perversion pounded...

TRUTH WITHOUT QUOTATION MARKS

We place quotation marks around the Scripture we quote. It is right when quoting something not original to us. In doing so, what we quote can sound distant and not part of us like it is when quoting something from a book. Scripture is different. It is alive and active...

DISCERNING DELAYS

Because we live in a physical world and relate to the unfolding of time based on clocks and calendars, we can wrongly discern what we perceive as a delay. If we are not careful, we can wrongly interpret a delay as a lack of fulfillment of what God has promised. The...

A FATHER’S IMPACT

Tomorrow is Father’s Day. As the day approaches, I think of my father, Charlie Elkins. He passed away 34 years ago. He was born in 1908 in a sod hut in the panhandle of Oklahoma near the town of Guymon. Outside the front door of their home was a horse hooked to a...