WE ARE AT WAR

While some in the Church are defining the future as a time of progressive peace, the reality is, that we are engaged in a spiritual battle. Not being prepared for war will have us walk into the future unprepared to engage in what is taking place. We will live in that...

THE SWORD OF THE LORD

As I read through Song of Songs this morning, I came across a verse that sounded different from the beautiful love song that Solomon described between a man and woman in the covenant of marriage. The verse describes angelic hosts who are skilled in spiritual conflict,...

UN-NUMBING THE CHURCH

Unless one is living in complete isolation from reality, something is afoot in the nations of the world. We see radical elements being imported into university campuses taking emotional control of discontented students causing them to occupy their campus and restrict...

CLEANING HOUSE

Forty-three years ago, Jan and I were two church planters living in Kalispell, Montana. We had just moved all our belongings and our two preschool kids in a U-Haul truck to a rental house. The house was out in the country in an open pasture. We felt alone and...

THIS IS HOW GOD FIGHTS OUR BATTLES

The Lord fights our most strategic spiritual battles in ways human effort can’t accomplish. It is simply a work of God. Elisha was living under the threat of death from the king of Israel. A famine in the land had become so great that a mother ate her son and...