Category: General

Every next-level step we take faces us with the “I don’t know how to do this” dilemma of kingdom dynamics. Experience in kingdom leadership prepares us for surrender; experience teaches us that experience doesn’t prepare us to understand as much as it prepares us to stop depending upon our own understanding! Kingdom experience teaches trust. […]

The point of tarrying in Jerusalem was, “Have you got what it takes to sustain what you start?” When you are filled, there’s no reason to hesitate doing the ministry of Jesus! Just do the stuff! Personally. Daily. Everywhere. How you coordinate that with the Body is strategic. You cannot function without connection. “Every joint […]

“But you shall keep the LORD your God in mind [by doing your part of the agreement]: because He's the One that that gives you power to get power, wealth to get wealth, strength to build strength, might to build might – He does this so He may establish His covenant…" [Deuteronomy 8:18] The literal […]

I’m wading in and weighing in on the “simple church” concept. No fear, I will attempt to offend everyone equally; I’m an equal opportunity offender. (That’s supposed to sound humorous, so chuckle quietly.) I have spiritual sons and daughters and friends who see simple as the wave of tomorrow. I agree but in a very […]

If we look at healing as “fixing something broken,” we can immediately see that healing involves contrasting conditions: broken or whole; function or dysfunction; destiny or diversion. Something needs fixing, and healing fixes it by restoring its condition and function. In Exodus 3, the water is “bitter” and the healing of the water makes them […]

To be a takeover leader, you must be taken-over. Something bigger than you, outside of you, must take over your highest values, deepest trust, and strongest motivations. You are giving your life to what is highest, and locating your values and valuables in what you love. The first choices of life are matters of the […]

We often use the phrase “lack of leadership” to describe poor leadership, but the reality is that we haven’t actually lost our leadership as much as we have lost the proper functions of leadership. Poor leadership and no leadership are obviously not the same condition. What’s “poor” isn’t the absence of leaders, a very undesirable […]

Strategy of hell, Syndrome of Leaders You remember the slogan for the armed forces: “be all you can be, in the Army.” Well, the distraction of your destiny and purpose is found in the slogan: “be all you can’t be.” If hell cannot keep you from pursuing your destiny and purpose, hell will work to […]

God is a Creator and Blesser. He blesses what He creates. His blessing authorizes. His blessing empowers. His blessing positions. The Hebrew “barak” means both “to bless,” and “to kneel” to denote the disposition and profile of the one received. The sense of blessing is to invest with favor, to expand on what was set […]

How Jesus Deals with People Paul’s takeover experience is New Testament classic, a clear picture of how Jesus deals with people after His Resurrection. He redeems and restores. Saul becomes Paul through a transformational process. Jesus faces him down outside Damascus and the adventure begins. Jesus inserts keys to Paul’s destiny and purpose into his life to […]