DISCERNING DISTRACTIONS

There are distractions taking place in our world that are a tactic of the enemy. Their intent is to rob us of hope and weaken our faith. Properly discerning these distractions will determine the longevity and effectiveness of our testimony. I recently had a very...

FIGHTING FOR OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES

During the years when I worked behind a badge, on a few occasions, I had people try to kill me. By God’s grace and good training, I was able to survive those situations. Since the days when I worked as a cop, the streets have become even more violent and unrestrained....

MERCURIAL ANSWERS

I value straightforward answers. Whenever I am around people who are hard to pin down, their partial and deflective answers are like a puddle of mercury moving around without clear definition avoiding answers that would offer clarity about what they believe. Their...

DISEMPOWERED DEFIANCE

As bizarre forms of evil parade across our culture and a mixture of spiritual deception, emotional brokenness, and mental instability seem to be taking center stage and are represented as truth, something else is happening. Clarity is coming. The more obvious it...

REMOVING THE PACIFIERS

Over the years, I’ve had conversations with believers that sounded more like a conversation with an unbeliever than someone who claims to know the Lord. The same doubts and deceptions were present in those conversations as a conversation taking place in the larger...

AN INSIDE LOOK

Yesterday, I was speaking to a group of students in the Midwest during a Zoom call training module. One of the goals of the school is to train students how to take the message of God’s Kingdom into the marketplace. I felt the Lord asking me to share about how we can...