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...

THE FINAL WORD

So much seems to be coming apart at the seams in our world. Truth is being rejected along with common sense. Those in positions of authority are imposing evil on us and demanding our compliance as if it were the right thing to do. It would be easy to lose hope if we...

SPIRITUAL MICROCLIMATES

It’s important to discern and appreciate the wide variety of expressions of faith that exist within the Church. We are not all the same. To require that all believers express their faith in lockstep is a very limited understanding of the diversity God intended for His...

FUTURE GOSSIP

In the near future the words of Paul regarding unfounded gossip will enter a new stage of interpretation, “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (II Corinthians 13:1). Imagine if a friend or a leader you love was accused of an...

OUT OF CONTACT AND ALONE

Some of you have been given an assignment by the Lord that will take you outside the perimeter of your comfort zone. You are out of contact with what has been familiar. What you have relied on in the past is no longer available. This kind of assignment is not for the...