A HUNDRED DOLLAR CRY

In 1981, when Jan and I journeyed to Montana with our children to plant our first church, we had no idea what we were doing.  We simply had a word from God and decided to act upon that word in faith....

THE RISE OF MOMMA BEARS

Yesterday, I heard the Lord say, “Momma Bears are rising!” These are mothers who have been awakened to the evil being perpetrated against their children by governmental programs bent on the destruction of their children’s innocence. They will become a ferocious...

BONDING WITH GOD

One of my early memories was of my father taking me to an iconic hot dog stand in Oakland, California called Doggie Diner. At the time there were Doggie Diner franchises all over the Bay Area. I can still recall the smell and taste of the hot dogs and the steam-heated...

A FATHER’S IMPACT

Tomorrow is Father’s Day. As the day approaches, I think of my father, Charlie Elkins. He passed away 34 years ago. He was born in 1908 in a sod hut in the panhandle of Oklahoma near the town of Guymon. Outside the front door of their home was a horse hooked to a...

A MIDNIGHT FEAST

A memory from my boyhood came to mind last week. I was 8 years old and for some reason, I woke up shortly after midnight. I got out of bed and walked down the hall through the darkness into the kitchen to discover, to my surprise, that my father was standing there in...