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Healing and Wholeness We know that breaches of wholeness constantly and consistently challenge us. These are part of the experience of living in a world without wholeness. The word “shalom” is an excellent way of expressing wholeness, and the meaning of wholeness is akin to “created to be this way.” And the meaning of holy […]

A Polemic and Dialogue I read the statement three times: “Read the New Testament, and you will see that every city had one church with many house churches, with one apostle who planted churches leading the entire network.” So, I thought, “I have read the new covenant potion of the Bible for more than fifty […]

What the Five Kingdom Leaders Do The famous phrase from Paul’s discussion of kingdom leadership, “equipping the saints,” ain’t about equipping. At least, not so much. The idea that local church pastors teach people to do stuff so they aren’t doing it all – well, that is so far removed from what Paul discusses that […]

Fathering Lineage God’s point of view for Abraham was more than the origination of nations. He was a father of nations in more than the sense that he had children who became nations. God saw Abraham as an international leader. God says, “How can I deal with Sodom and Gomorrah without first speaking with Abraham, […]

The Mindset of God The Logos of God is Jesus as a manifested revelation of God, and the eternal, unchanging mindset of God. The Bible is not the Logos; it is not exhaustive. The Bible is the written or “graphe” communication of Logos God chose to reveal Who He is and How He does stuff. […]

Recognizing Rebellion The rebel seldom defines their posture as “rebellious.” Few are proud of being rebels. Rebels functions in a delusion warp of personal justification. Rebels offer any authority ultimatums. A spiritual father should avoid the relational death that comes with ultimatums by anticipating them and heading them off before they arrive. Rebuke the rebellion […]

The gates of kingdom culture – there are more than seven – that open and close kingdom influence to the current culture provide for socio-economic kingdom impact. Our current language is “the business mountain” infiltration is part of the kingdom strategy to disciple nations. So, we celebrate any Christian business success when it carries a […]

Honor includes monetary investment. Honor is value. Honor is not exclusively commodified. That is, honor is not for sale, but it is worthy of offering. A kingdom leader is not for sale. He cannot be given proper monetary value. While some kingdom leaders set a price for doing a certain thing, the value of a […]

We have lost kingdom culture, and we do not know we have lost it. Daniel saw visions that revealed history from the captivity of God’s representative culture to the restoration of Messiah’s culture. The images represent actual cultures of history that are continuing to influence the world. The cultures Daniel saw in his visions influence […]

Elijah tells Elisha that he has asked for something big if he wants to be a firstborn inheritor of Elijah’s leadership among the other prophets. He says, “If you are there when God takes me from you, you will receive it.” How many mantles lie about the world fell upon no one because the one […]