INVASIVE SPECIES

This is not a warm and fuzzy prophetic word that will make us feel good. It is a somber warning. Unless we understand its reality, we will become unwitting victims of something we do not need to experience. A recent news report advised that a snapping turtle, an...

WHEN DARKNESS GATHERS

Just before World War I and the Russian Revolution broke out, Hitler, Stalin, and Trotsky all lived within a mile of each other in Vienna. There is no evidence they knew one another. Their proximity to each other can teach us something about spiritual warfare. There...

WHEN FEAR AND CHAOS ARE ON THE RISE

As the nations of the world and the streets of some cities in America are exhibiting increasing levels of turmoil, Psalm 46 becomes very tangible, “The nations are in chaos and their kingdoms crumble” (vs. 6). While the chaos is increasing and governments appear to be...

VIOLATING PROTOCOL

Be careful not to prematurely judge a person or a word that creates a disruption of a long-held assumption. Those who create these disruptions might be carrying a message from God intended to protect and deliver those willing to examine the message to determine its...

SPIRITUAL SNAKE CHARMERS

While a charming personality is of some value when a person’s spiritual life is not threatened, it does little to protect those in our care or advance God’s Kingdom when evil slithers its way into our lives unnoticed. We cannot charm evil away. The authority of...