We live in a culture where demeaning and debasing are virtues instead of vices…the landscape of modern culture is littered with victims of dishonor…yet it’s clear that hating and defaming is not the culture of the kingdom, bu...
Our culture today, like many before it, professes to love freedom, but freedom has been in short supply for most of history, and with good reason – It's profession and practice are two different things. For the most part, the...
A quick survey of MODERN CULTURE, popular films, and TRENDING PRACTICES evidences the truth of satanic influences of OUR CURRENT social & SPIRITUAL Reality, Spiritual realities, whether or not people are aware of them, SURROU...
Recently conviction and reverence has gotten a bad rap. Many have swung the pendulum and over-corrected to extreme legalism and boundary strict Christianity that has wounded some. But in overreacting to legalism, I wonder if ...
Xenophobia is defined as the fear of strangers and is a term that is applied to any fear of someone who is different from us. Hostility towards outsiders is often a reaction to this fear. Asian Americans across the United S...
The modern person’s ability to stick with anything too long has evaporated. The messaging and packaging from everything from breakfast cereal to politics has to be constantly evolving in order to hold people’s attention. Re...
The authors of the book “In their Time”, cite one common denominator among all great leaders ... "They possessed an acute sensitivity to the social, political and demographic context that came to define their eras." Relevanc...
The hardest thing for a prophetic vessel is to see the weakness and sins of their own culture or tribe. If we are attached to something, we can be blinded by it. If we attempt to discharge our prophetic burden upon worldly af...
Protocols are the established code of procedure or behavior in any situation. They restrict chaos and the misuse of a gift and release greater safety and freedom within which to minister and receive ministry. We are entering ...
The dictionary says conviction is a strong persuasion or belief, the state of being convinced. It is a settled decision, a fixed strong belief. It defines and impacts our actions, thoughts and everything we are. Yet there is ...
In Roman mythology a fictitious figure Janus from which we get January symbolizes change and transitions… he is represented as having two faces one looking back and one looking ahead. We are in this liminal space of signific...
December has always been a crucial time to evaluate what we have done and underwent during the past year. It is the lull between the festivities of Christmas and the celebrations of New Year’s Eve … This becomes the moment f...
Christmas 2020 will be the most unusual Christmas we’ve ever experienced. It will not be what we have come to expect each December…Yet neither did the FIRST Christmas deliver what was expected, nor did it come with all the wa...
By definition, Joy is a state of mind and an orientation of the heart. It is a settled state of contentment, confidence and hope. But joy in its fuller spiritual meaning involves so much more ... This time of the year seems...
It has often been said that marriage has a 50% chance of success. Recent statistics show that both marriage rates and divorce rates in the US are decreasing. But is this a good trend? C.S. Lewis is quoted as saying, “Love ...
It has been proven in self-defense tactics that when being attacked, the FIRST THING a person loses is their VOICE… When the attacked finds their voice, it SHIFTS the advantage to their POSITION. The enemy has silenced wome...
Ancient Roman Statesman Cicero accurately said, “What starts as GRATITUDE quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement”. As a society we seemingly have evolved to the point where we can customize our circumstances acco...
Ours is a nation that has been hit with a health pandemic, But maybe the most UNDECTED PANDEMIC is a loss of authentic identity. If we’re honest with ourselves, we often feel insecure … and those who hide it best; often fee...
Ordinary people lead ordinary lives. They do ordinary things and die ordinary deaths. Uneventful, unaltered and unchanged, meanwhile nobody wants to follow ordinary. Yet there is a conflict...Because within the heart is a ...
It’s been said that great leaders don’t set out to be a leader … they set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role; it’s about the goal. Ours is a time of crisis and in our day, and the true test of leadership is...
It's been said that mentoring is “a mutual relationship with an intentional agenda designed to convey specific content along with life wisdom from one individual to another". The book of Proverbs opens with an exhortation to...
Everywhere we turn, we are confronted with politics, and round the clock partisan spins. There is no easy place to be anymore. It’s so true that our political canvas is so covered with angry voices everywhere. Politics has...
Fear is a reaction of anticipation that is triggered when a situation that is at risk for our safety is perceived, preparing the body to face danger, which can evoke the freeze,flight,fight,& fright reactions, dramatically im...
The word influencer has been used in the English language since the mid 1600’s. This pivotal term has changed over the centuries – evolving from the movement of heavenly spheres to the movement of human speculation. And in ...