Tagged: spiritual warfare

Just another weekend worship service. Nothing special. Not Easter or Christmas or revival. We ask God to open our eyes, but what if He truly answered and we could suddenly see what happens when His people gather –the spiritual reality assembled weekly in the foxhole of our churches. Loved ones, there is no back pew …[ read more ]

We live in a rural area of Rhode Island, and during my father’s decades of firefighting, many of his rescues involved wildlife or domestic animals. One winter at dusk, he responded to a call for a cow stuck in the ice. It was snowing, and the firefighters racing over slick country roads in my dad’s …[ read more ]

Outside of this blog, I’m not very brave. It bothers me when people don’t like me or misunderstand something I’ve said or disapprove of my opinion. I know I have a high tolerance for pain, but if someone made me sit in an uncomfortable chair in a room with nothing to read or do and …[ read more ]

Dear Yazidi mother, I cannot imagine your pain. I’ve read reports of what you’ve endured and can hardly bear to read another. Your husbands and sons murdered, your daughters ripped from your arms and sold to men who tell them their god gives them permission to rape and to enslave. A world feasting on the …[ read more ]

Some days you feel like the warrior you are because of Jesus. Your armor glints in the sun. Your soul senses the power of the risen Christ within you and you itch for a front-line assignment. The enemy is before you, ever at work, but greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world i s the motto emblazoned on your shield and you sink …[ read more ]