by Garris Elkins | Jan 12, 2017 | Deliverance, Freedom, Gifts, Holy Spirit, Ministry, Pentecost, Power, Spiritual Warfare
One of my duty assignments as a cop was in the Detective Bureau. We wore suits and sports coats. Underneath my coat and resting on my belt was a holster holding my handgun, spare ammunition, and handcuffs. I still owned one of those sports coats when I entered...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 29, 2016 | Kingdom of God, Spiritual Warfare
For some of us who use blogs to store and transmit what we write, it is always interesting to see the audience source for our writing. One of the tools used to track readership are the graphs provided that track the number of reads that take place in a given day. Just...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 23, 2016 | Hope, Redemption, Spiritual Warfare, Trust
I always thought it was strange how I see the year’s calendar in my mind. It resembles a roller coaster. This time of year is that part of the ride when the roller coaster car is slowly ticking its way up through the last few days of December to the apex of the...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 22, 2016 | Death, Deliverance, Resurrection, Spiritual Warfare
As a kid growing up in church, I heard the following words repeated over the years, “The finished work of the Cross”. I often wondered what those words meant. I have now come to understand their meaning. Jesus went as far as possible in His obedience as the Second...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 10, 2016 | Prophecy, Spiritual Warfare
For the last few days I have been hearing the phrase, “Hot Combat”. Hot combat is what takes place on the frontlines in an actual shooting war. It is a bloody place where you either live or die. We need to be reminded of the reality of warfare. Not just the...
by Garris Elkins | Dec 4, 2016 | Courage, Faith, Hope, Spiritual Warfare
If you are a timid soul you might not like this story. I love it. It has been almost forty years since I was a cop. It was a different world back then. Some things have remained the same in police work and so much has changed. As a young cop, I loved the old timers....
