Category: General

Refreshing some ideas for this moment.

My Ipad has a locator function. I just push on the map application and the world shows up on screen. Then, map pin slammed into the earth to show where my Ipad is located at any given moment. Returning home from six weeks in Brasil, I awoke from a dream that reminded me of this […]

Expanded version of blog post on Kingdom Leadership Dynamics

Psalm 106:12 – “Then they believed His words were true and broke out in songs of praise.” [The Message] The word “then” has some sense of “finally they get it” and “finally they are ready to trust what God says is true.” The New Living Translation says: “Then at last his people believed his promises. […]

Reblogging because so pertinent to now.

Over the course of my daily function as a fathering leader with international assignments, I find myself suddenly in emotional energy investments for no apparent reason. I suddenly feel that tightening at the throat and eyes that indicate weeping for many people. I’m not much one to cry because I become a bit dysfunctional if […]

The word we translate “bishop” means “oversee, look over.” It is a word interchangeable with elder. It is not a title or office, has nothing in particular to do with hierarchy as often applied by institutional polity and government, a leader over several other leaders or churches. It came to mean that after the Bible […]

John and James asked Jesus for places of honor in Jesus’ Glory. Gotta think about that for a moment. It is His Glory and His place of Honor. They requested two shares of position they had done absolutely nothing to earn or deserve. So, He answers, “Can you be baptized with the baptism I am […]

Twelve years ago God began speaking to me about the nature of revival. I immediately began writing about “the last American revival” because I had always been totally about the US in terms of ministry. I was experiencing God is new, powerful ways and interpreting these experiences in the context of my spiritual history. During […]

God gives us models to break us out of where we are and give us a new sense of what is coming next. These leaders are next step leaders, and we need them. They are God’s strategy. They are foundational. That said, such men and women of unusual spiritual power and authority should raise the […]