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...

THE TRACTION OF TRUTH

The Gospel was meant to be lived out in a place of real-world application where people live, suffer, and try to figure things out. The point of contact where the Gospel engages the gut-level realities of life where truth encounters falsehoods, naivety, and deception...

CHOOSING OUR REMNANT

The book of Judges is a study of human nature. It is also a study that will help us examine what is taking place in our world, our nation, and within the Church. A repeated theme in Judges is that people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes. The same is proving...

WHEN BLACK SWANS APPEAR

Don’t lose heart no matter what you see taking place in the world. We have not yet seen God make His most significant move in this generation– a move that will be more impacting than the damage caused by a global black swan event.  Black swan events occur...

THE FAILURE OF RELIGIOUS ETIQUETTE

It is becoming increasingly obvious we are moving toward a critical and dangerous juncture in human history. Despair will increase when options for escape narrow and people become desperate. This is not the time to seek out the counsel of the religious equivalent of...