WHEN OUTLIERS SPEAK

Most of the people in the Church are busy trying to live a good life. They go to work, try to raise good kids, save for retirement, and live an honorable life. The uncomfortable truth is that all the things I just mentioned can be accomplished without the presence of...

THE UNCOMFORTABLE NATURE OF A WARNING

When we awake each day someone somewhere is warning us about something. In a sea of warnings, it is easy to disregard them and move on with life rejecting all warnings out of hand as the product of an over-active imagination, a conspiracy theorist, or worse, a...

CALLING THE SHOT

When I was a young SWAT cop, our five-man team was scheduled to train with sniper instructors at the Army base in Fort Ord, California. Our day began with some bleacher time. We sat before a team of instructors learning the skills required to deliver a round downrange...

AMAZING EVENTS

I watched a video of two guys fishing off the coast of Cape Cod when an earthquake took place. The noise they heard was other-worldly. From their reactions, you can see the fishermen had no context for the sound. The video reminds me of what it might be like when a...

UNFAMILIAR VOICES

New prophetic voices are speaking from the summit of the mountains of cultural influence. These voices don’t sound like the prophets who live and speak from within the mountain of religion. They do not prophesy using familiar religious language or imagery. In the next...