During the westward march of American settlers expanding the nation toward the mountains, questing pioneers encountered the vast expanse of open plains that became America’s “bread basket.” The terrain was terrifying to many people who turned around and rushed back to the eastern cities or simply stopped east of the Mississippi River, intimidated by the […]
Category: General
Fatal Flaw
The human condition includes the human contradiction and contrition. We are flawed! No amount of effort, education, or etiquette can fully remove all our flaws. The flaws are fundamentally spiritual and require a fundamentally spiritual solution. We may have physical flaws. These can be categorized in a nearly infinite manner. Someone’s physical flaws are someone’s […]
Leviathan, Systematic Spiritual Delusion, Part 4
Step 3 – Spiritual Retribution God says He will visit the Leviathan with His sword. In other words, He will bring this Leviathan system to account with the very expectations He has for the people, place, and generation being held captive by this systematic spiritual delusion. This serpent inserted itself into God’s designs and twisted […]
Demanding Too Much Honor
Most assuredly, each of us should enjoy a proper level of honor. Honor can never be demanded. As much as we may attempt to do so, honor must be given. Honor should be automatic or inherent to some people positioned in our lives: We should honor father and mother, leaders in the Body, and governmental […]
Discipline and Punishment: Standing Your Child on the Corner?
Roland lives in my home town of Jacksonville, Florida. According to media reports, his mother, Marcia, decided to have her eight-year-old son stand on the corner holding a sign that says, “I was rude to my teacher so I can’t come to school. I am sorry!” This story got national media attention and professional […]
Cultural Identity Crisis
Spiritual fathering measures success by a revelation of what God wants for spiritual children: “I will train up this child in his way he should go.” A child has something built into this destiny that is design and defined by God before his birth, and fathering God’s way will involve God’s intentions in the results. […]
Sheltered
Job’s experiences reveal that the devil has to go through God to get to us, and that most of what hell would like to do is off-limits. The interplay of our lives with satan has a “load limit” sign on it. When satan does entice, God provides an escape so we can bear the strain […]
Greater Awakening: When Revival Becomes Awakening
Asia Minor Awakening According to Luke’s records of the Ephesus-Asian Minor Awakening in Acts 19 and credible sources from history, the city of Ephesus went from being the center of queen of heaven worship for both Greek and Roman cultures to the center of Christianity. The transformation took about forty years. Paul came into the […]
Teachable and Transformable Children
At some point in fathering relationships, the father will wonder if he is wasting his time and the spiritual child will wonder if he will ever be “released.” Every relationship we have in life is tested by surprises: sometimes both people are surprised, as each of them is surprised by their own behaviors and feelings. […]
Prophetic Information
Information can bring knowledge. Knowledge can be the basis for understanding. Understanding can assemble wisdom. The beginning point of wisdom is communication. “God Who spoke in different ways and times throughout history has spoken in these last days through His Son.” The Word became flesh. God communicated in and through Jesus in new, unique, and […]