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Keep Flinching  'As aliens, live in reverent fear.' (1 Pet. 1:17)    Don’t let this election season make you as vulgar as it is. Trump...

Home Fires   'As aliens, live in reverent fear.' (1 Pet. 1:17)    'To be chosen by God puts us in opposition to the world. That’s why St....

Hard Pressed   'As aliens, live in reverent fear.' (1 Pet. 1:17)     Any Christian with a conscience is perplexed by this election year....

Election years remind me that ‘the Kingdom of God will not arrive on Air Force One’ (Chuck Colson, never timelier.) I take heart in my...

Grateful for this tiny Adoration chapel: a safe space to love this Head whose Body threatens to divide my heart. Like you, I’ve wounds...

to prayerfully seek a way through our political wilderness. I’ve not much to say about it—no politico, me—but I like you am obliged by...

Christian, pray for America. After the presidential debate—the worst display of American politics I’ve ever seen—we’ve nowhere to go but...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

My world was rocked when I first heard the news about Mike Bickle’s sexual and spiritual abuse: I felt sick to my stomach and...

I Will Arise ‘Weary and weak—accept my weariness. Weary and weak and downcast in soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

‘I will pour out on you a spirit of grace and supplication… We will look upon the One we have pierced and will mourn as one grieves for...

“I believed, therefore I said: ‘I am greatly afflicted,’ and in my dismay, I said: ‘All men are liars’” (Ps. 116:10). These last couple...

My ‘gay’-identified friend Tim needs Jesus. Finally. It’s taken decades and a terminal condition for him to soften to the God-man. And I...

I love the International House of Prayer (IHOP). Its crisis is our crisis. In ’99, Mike and Diane Bickle shifted from pastoring a church...

‘If the essence of Advent is expectancy, it is also a readiness for action: watchfulness for every opening, and willingness to risk...

Thankful. You help us stay true. Of all the treasures of 2023, our 40 days together of ‘rousing Her radiance’ shines brightest for me....

Becoming Home ‘Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The Lord will...