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By Pastor Andrew Franklin, Living Waters leader and author of ‘Created for Love: Reclaiming Jesus’ Vision for Sexuality, Gender, and...

Abbey Foard, Executive Director of DSM/LW Our nation (and our world) is swirling, as dizzying news cycles attest. No need to recount—we...

Over 25-years-ago, a CA woman prophesied that Living Waters would find extraordinary expression in France. Her words came true. Founders...

The full stature of our humanity is always just outside our grasp. Someone truer, stronger, more tender-in-love awaits his or her true...

‘Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing…’ (Heb. 10:25) Having ascended to heaven, Jesus reunites with...

Aging cuts both ways: yes, we at Desert Stream Ministries are now 40 years wiser, but also stubborn and calcified in ways that can...

A renowned director despises vast landscapes in his movies: ‘Humanity reveals itself only in cramped quarters’, he mused. Apply that to...

‘I love you tenderly, faithfully, mercifully; and I will draw you into the embrace of My friendship, and hold you close against My sacred...

I kid you not. After 40 years of leading Living Waters groups, I just finished the best one ever. These twenty weeks rolled out like a...

‘Each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked.’ (Neh.4:18) Fighting for wholeness is at once a personal and corporate...

‘Encourage one another daily…so that no-one may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We share in Christ if we hold firmly to the...

‘Because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice’ (Lk. 18:5). Prayer and fasting are not sexy. As this 40-day...

Until our weakness becomes ground that drinks rain from heaven, it may well invite the reign of hell. Such is the case for persons with...

All Saint’s Day reminds us of faithful ones who went before us and made a way for our faithfulness. I celebrated this feast of gratitude...

‘And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness’ (Is. 35:8). Most efforts to pursue sexual wholeness are blocked by...

Since becoming Catholic, I’m more aware than ever of the ignorant, prejudicial attitudes that pervade both sides of our divided Church....

It can be tough to burn with hope for some LGBT+ persons; allergic to chastity, alive to sensational new ‘sexualities’, they frame us as...

‘May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of people’ (Gen. 28:3). Today....

‘I tell you the truth: it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go I will...

‘Remember not the former things…behold the new!’ (Isaiah 43:18) Living Waters is a long narrow cross-walk that always opens to Life. To...