When Hostages Fight Back

During my training to become a Hostage Negotiator, I learned an interesting fact. When a hostage event reaches a critical point and the hostage-takers slip hoods or masks over the faces of their hostages, an execution was imminent. It was at that moment a SWAT rescue...

Recalibrating Our Mission

In this unusual time in history, the Western Church is being offered an opportunity to recalibrate. In some cases, we have wandered from the very things that motivated the Early Church to be so passionate and all-in regarding their commitment to Christ. The first...

Restraining Walls Are Coming Down

The walls of fear that have defined and confined some relationships are coming down. The sound of that dismantling is echoing throughout our culture and within the Church. Where before people were afraid to step out or speak up they no longer are feeling obligated to...

For the Men and Women in Blue

Don’t buy into the lie that cops are your enemy. I spent 9 years behind a badge in two different agencies and endured things most of you reading these words will thankfully never have to experience. It is a very different profession, at times with deadly outcomes....

A Time of Recalibration

A powerful image of a culture-transforming Church is revealed in Acts 2 after the Day of Pentecost. The attention of the believers was focused first and foremost on the Lord, not on an unredeemed culture. The Early Church devoted themselves to the Apostle’s teaching...

Courage in Seasons of Discontent

At certain junctures of history, the gates of hell open a little wider allowing demonic powers to invade our world bringing with them unusual demonstrations of darkness. We are living in one of those times. In the last few months, the wide-open gates of darkness have...