Category: General

The Blueprint Room and Battle Plan Room: Implementing Divine Vision

The Blueprint Room Vision I stood in a construction company’s corporate offices. The room I entered was filled with cabinets with wide drawers standing five feet high. I knew I was there to review blueprints. I was in the company’s blueprint room. The room was dedicated to blueprint storage. The large-drawer cabinets dominated the room, […]

Mature Prophets Internalize from God Sources

Definition of Terms Internalization is a process of assimilating and processing from external sources what will become internal. My technical definition: In kingdom leaders, internalization involves the integration of thinking, habits of thinking or attitudes, values and beliefs, opinions and revelation from God, demons, and others, or circumstances powerful enough to require processing into one’s own identity or […]

Fathering Norms

How involved is your spiritual father? I have heard the rather silly assumption normalized: “If you do not have your spiritual father’s smartphone number, he isn’t your father.” Think about it. I know we have repeated it without analysis because it sounds right, but the statement’s Biblicity and the presuppositions underneath it are suspect. Paul. […]

The Awful Days Become the Days of Awe

“We rebuilt the wall in troublesome times,” Nehemiah says. As we step into 2021, awful days will give way to days of awe. How will this occur? Let’s rehearse Gideon’s storyline, the judge in Israel who confronted and defeated the harvest stealing lawlessness with a radical, representative Remnant. Much of what we have given ourselves […]

2021: A Call to Original Ekklesia

Ignore the Dead End Detours Prophetic websites, leading church-growthism syncretism with apostolic restorationists, and general neo-evangelical urban legends combine with early church myths that ignore Scripture and common sense to produce terrible misconceptions and misrepresentations of the kingdom of God and its Ekklesia. Now, responding to the pandemic instead of the Bible, we have this […]

Paul and the Ephesians Elders

Acts 20 records the last words of Paul to the Elders at Ephesus. Acts 20:16-31: Paul, compelled by an urgency to get to Jerusalem by the day of Pentecost, avoided the delay of stopping by Asia. From Miletus, Paul having sent [some person or communication] to Ephesus to call to himself the Ekklesia elders. When […]

Armorbearer: The Biblical Metaphor

The term armorbearer is a Bible word, of course, but some leaders have grossly exaggerated the metaphoric meaning. Most of the problem lies in the fundamental comic book commitment of contemporary churchism to spiritual warfare. A mighty warrior of the caliber needed to walk with a kingdom champion might be asked to care for the […]