God Already Traded His Son For Yours
I was at the hospital last night and spoke with the parent of a patient, and this parent was having a hard time dealing with the circumstances of their injured adult child (for those of you who don’t know me well, I have been an RN for over a decade). In the short conversation we […]
The Price of Kindness
I was reading a book this morning, a Chinese cultivation novel, where a character was pondering the meaning of kindness. In this book, the character was pondering kindness in order to advance his station in life, and he began to do random acts of kindness in order to understand it better. But he noticed that […]
You Will Regret Missing The Rapture
A few weeks before I moved from Austin, Tx to the New Philadelphia area of Ohio earlier this year, I somehow got into what was a confusing conversation for me with one of the nursing assistants in my hospital system. It was confusing for me largely because these days I am very far removed from […]
Why Being a Prophetic Feeler Can Be Overwhelming (And What To Do About It)
A friend once wrote me a message and asked me the following question: “Do you have any suggestions for how someone way too empathetic can work with and love whoever they’re helping without being swallowed up by the painful stuff being addressed? Or does that indicate some brokenness in itself?” I thought this was a […]
Grace Over Formula
I had a dream on January 18th of this year that I want to share with you, as well as the interpretation and the message it carries for all of us. The dream itself was pretty short. I was at my old property and standing at the fence talking to the neighbor. In real life […]
The Expiration Date of Grief
I was talking to a dear friend the other day about grief, and she made an analogy I had never heard before. She said that grief is a bit like a ball inside a box. The ball never goes away, but as the box grows over time, the relative space that it takes up is […]
Unmasking Kabbalah, Engaging Jesus
I’m not typically a “heresy hunter” and that’s not even my goal with this article either, but I have observed with increasing prevalence that Kabbalah is a growing thing in “mystical” Christian circles, whether those that are more Charismatic leaning, those focused on “Getting back to Jewish roots”, or those who are trying to take […]
Seeking After Signs: What Does The Bible Say?
The Charismatic denominations are a funny place, and if you listen to what every teacher or preacher says about how to receive from God, how to operate in the gifts of the spirit, whether to seek after God’s face or his hand, how to receive answered prayer or see miracles, or anything similar, you are […]
Building an “As You Go” Lifestyle
One of the things I learned early on in my journey into the charismatic and things involving the power of the Holy Spirit was that so much of it is meant to be done on a daily basis as we go throughout life. I remember hearing Bill Johnsons preach once and he was explaining how […]
A Resurrection Mindset: Waking the Sleeper
My very good friend Kyle died on June 19, 2021 in a motorcycle accident. The entire situation was (and is) heartbreaking, and I did pray for resurrection. At the time of writing this he hasn’t returned back to life yet, but my job is to pray, not to decide the timing of things, so pray […]