by Garris Elkins | May 12, 2025 | Prophetic
When I was a young patrol officer, I almost shot a man. I was working in a two-man unit during a midnight shift. We stopped a vehicle that drove past us at high rate of speed in violation of the posted speed limit. So, we pulled in behind the vehicle and initiated a...
by Garris Elkins | May 11, 2025 | Prophetic
Today, on this Mother’s Day of 2025, I am remembering my mother. She passed away in 2010. As a young girl, she experienced the pain of her parent’s divorce in a day when such things were frowned upon. She grew up in the deep South. She only had one pair of shoes...
by Garris Elkins | May 11, 2025 | Prophetic
It has become popular in some circles of the Church to dismiss the current expression of the nation of Israel, thinking its national goals have separated it from God. If that were the case, all of us would be separated from God because none of us are perfect, and no...
by Garris Elkins | May 10, 2025 | Prophetic
We need to be careful accepting the definitions provided by some theologians of what they have defined as only a metaphor. Unless we are careful about accepting all we have been taught to believe, we will accept a logical understanding for things not meant to be...
by Garris Elkins | May 9, 2025 | Prophetic
One section of Scripture has changed how I interpret the results of our faith. Faith is not an intellectual choice. It is a spiritual act – a seed that contains miraculous potential. It can release profound miracles that no human intellect can comprehend or...
by Garris Elkins | May 5, 2025 | Prophetic
When the Lord created us, He placed in our hearts an instinct to know what is right or wrong. Paul wrote about people who live a life in violation of God’s original creation, he described them this way, “They began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a...
