IT’S TIME TO CLOSE OUR RANKS

Today, division and separation are taking place in the Church. This is a spiritual battle that some believers are not seeing. Some division and separation from evil in our ranks is needed to keep the Church pure and unsullied by human pride and ambition. The greater...

SPIRITUAL WOLVES

Someone once said, “He who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep.” My pastor, Roy Hicks, Jr., who pastored Faith Center in Eugene, Oregon, told a group of us young pastors-to-be, “You don’t try to convert wolves -you shoot them.” Roy wasn’t talking about actually...
TOWING AWAY WHAT’S NOT WORKING

TOWING AWAY WHAT’S NOT WORKING

I was driving my truck through town last week and noticed a vehicle in front of me being towed away. At the stoplight, I took a photo of the car. What caught my attention was the bumper sticker attached to the vehicle – “Please be Patient. Student driver.”...

DIVIDED LOYALTIES

As social issues heat up in America, some in the Church sadly reflect the thinking of unredeemed people, not the truths of God’s Kingdom. We have been drowning in a pool of deception, and that deception has begun to influence the thinking of Christ’s...

THE THIEF OF GOD’S GOODNESS

Looking across our nation, it’s not difficult to see the cities and states where the devil is in control of politics. It is bearing increasingly bad fruit. God has another plan that is opposed by those who currently occupy seats of power. God’s plan is to...