by Garris Elkins | Mar 30, 2019 | Courage, Culture, Death, Discipleship, Discipline, Humility, Integrity, Kingdom of God, Love, Mercy, Pride, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare
Someone put this sign in front of their home encouraging people to slow down as they transit our neighborhood. When I saw the sign, I thought of more than kids being harmed by careless drivers. I thought of the heated cultural climate in which we currently live. We...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 28, 2019 | Courage, Culture, Deliverance, Discipleship, Discipline, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Holy Spirit, Identity, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Truth
I remember the first day I became a cop. I was sworn in and handed a badge. My badge number was 387. Whenever I enforced the law, I served under the authority of that badge. Both complaints and commendations referenced my badge number. It identified me along with my...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 22, 2019 | Discipleship, Discipline, Family, Forgiveness, Freedom, Healing, Humility, Marriage, Pride, Reconciliation, Relationships, Spiritual Warfare, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
Have you noticed unhealthy critics rarely have original content to present? Their self-appointed mission in life is very narrow, birthed from the limited resource pool of their personal experience and worldview. A critic’s mission in life is to confront,...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 21, 2019 | Deliverance, Fear, Freedom, God, Hope, Integrity, Love, Miracles, Obedience, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare, Tranistion, Vision., Word
For almost 20 years I have hiked the section of a trail depicted in this photo. It has never been rutted like this in all those years. A combination of weather events, poor trail maintenance and just life in the wild produced these deep ruts. The beginning and the end...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 18, 2019 | Deliverance, Discipline, Freedom, God, Holy Spirit, Pride, Provision, Revelation, Spiritual Warfare, Teaching, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
In social media, there is something called “sponsored content”. Sponsored content is advertisement space a person or business purchases to push a product or a video repeatedly before a select audience. It is an attraction device. I have come to not like sponsored...
by Garris Elkins | Mar 13, 2019 | Culture, Deliverance, Freedom, Future, Kingdom of God, Love, Power, Provision, Restoration, Spiritual Warfare, Truth
A great confusion of the enemy and his message is beginning to take place. In the coming days, bizarre and insane-sounding agendas will be exposed and dismantled in the public square. This confusion will take place at a deeper level where the influence of a deluding...
