Category: General

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 authors of this statement – I combined three authors I consider friends and noble apostles – arrived at these conclusions because we hammered […]

I was so appalled by a blog posted and celebrated on FB that I felt compelled to answer the horrifyingly inaccurate and inconsistent statements and conclusions it offers on spiritual fathering. If you apply these ideas, you will not be a father at all. The young man writing about fathering desperately needs a spiritual father […]

Personal and Leadership Restoration Keep in mind that restoring a kingdom leader requires a different process from restoring a believer who has not taught, preached, prophesied as a prophet, or been a functioning elder. If a person holds an eldering leadership position and fivefold ministry function, the process for restoring requires both personal and ministry-function […]

“He gave apostles, prophets, evangels, shepherds and teachers to prepare and position the holy ones to operate in serving within the systems of Christ’s body” (Ephesians 4:11-12). The elders are the kingdom leadership dynamics Jesus bestowed upon the kingdom Ecclesia as He ascended with all authority in Heaven and Earth. He designed and assigned them […]

God designs all kingdom processes. To speak of them in terms of customer service excellence, we start by answering the question, “Who is the customer served?” This is true with the process of reconciliation to which Jesus refers in Matthew 18. The first answer is always “the King.” The primary customer served is the King […]

Spiritual warfare occurs when we positively press for the purposes of God and run into usurpers, enemies of God, and prevailing, spiritual conditions called “this present darkness. Once we have taken the position assigned us, we don God’s armor to stand in the evil day, expand from that secured position, and establish God’s kingdom purposes […]

Ask yourself why the forbidden is sexy. Marriage and faithfulness are the most empowering of all sensual experiences reaching even to the ultimate of spirit, soul, and body oneness. It is the image of God in humanity. It is the highest of all in terms of personal spiritual experience, and the most fundament relational dynamic […]

My good friend, Clay Nash, says, “If you honor me, honor my values.” Powerful words! When I heard him say them the first time, I felt them as much as I heard them. At that moment, I was listening to Clay Nash as a representative of Jesus of Nazareth, not only as my good friend. […]

When you reap the harvest of your breakthrough, the one that cost you endurance, submission, suffering, and, sometimes, years of faithfulness to your assignment, where do you invest that harvest? When you experience breakthrough, the opportunists will seek you out. The kingdom of God has some hangers-on who make book negotiating with faithful inheritors about […]

The rise of a homosexual Presidential candidate has done what I predicted it would do: namely, change the subject of the campaign from socialism – a divisive and drop-dead loser for Democrats without a national leader – to the heart and faith foundations of our culture. Mayor Pete kissing his partner (I’m aware they are […]