Category: General

David’s glaring weaknesses was women. My good friends tell me David was born of a different mother than his brothers. In any case, he never seems to have his head on straight about the girls. Personally, I see the beginning of this problem with Saul breaking his promise to David, and perhaps breaking David’s heart. […]

The circumstances in which you receive vision, calling, and assignment will not be ideal. God won’t wait for everyone else in your life to be fully obedient, functional, mature, and submitted before He speaks. When the vision arrives, you may long for a father to help you understand and implement the vision only to discover […]

An “unforced error” in competition usually refers to something one participant does that has nothing to do with their opponent’s strategy, actions, or skill set. In tennis this could be a serve that faults: nothing the opponent does causes this to happen. Often, even great champions beat themselves more than a worthy opponent defeats them. […]

The phrase “jumping to a conclusion” is used to describe the tendency or behavior connected with processing information in which a person reaches a conclusion, decision, or judgment about something without all the facts or considering all the facts. During my early teen years, I accompanied my father to visit a needy family that we […]

The famous or infamous “secrets to success” sales pitch can be heard within the kingdom. The screaming, spotlighted specials, the testimonial pitch from too perfect, too focused spokesmen is a marketing system useful to sell ideas and methods to believers as well as heathens. The “we’ve found the secret” promise has an appeal to this […]

Prophetic revelations should be written down whenever possible. Prophecy is a process. Sometimes when I am journaling what Holy Spirit is teaching me or revealing to me, I put some of the words in quotations marks because I hear them as God’s voice in dialogue. Yet, at the same time I use quotations to denote […]

I am preaching and writing a lot about purpose. Speaking into the context of doing “great things” yet failing to fulfill purpose. I believe this is the essence of what Jesus said about the “many” that will come to the day of ultimate accounting feeling really good about their accomplishments only to discover that Jesus […]

Given the amazing level of technology available to modern man, leaders should be producing more coorespondence and written revelation. The opportunity to function in this way could hardly be avoided without conscious substitution of other priorities or a failure to recognize this discipline as a priority of leaders. Leaders should be writing. Here’s my thinking: […]

When Jesus ascended into heaven with all authority in heaven and earth, He gave His kingdom assemblies a leadership strategy that would extend what He had established to every spiritual generation thereafter. [Ephesians 4] His plan is perfect: it really works! His plan needs no improvements: it really works! His plan provides for no exceptions: […]

I believe we are at a discussion point concerning how God and the Bible view destiny and purpose fulfillment and how this generation has blended humanism and existentialism into their approach and experience of personal development. Our discussion will have a focus on the end results: “having the end in mind from the beginning.” The […]