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Andrew Comiskey

Jul 25, 2016
3 min

Becoming Home

‘We fully “become” our true selves within relationships. A positive sense of self, rooted in worth and value, arises out of an attuned, empathic, supportive and caring environment in which secure attachment is established. By caring for and attuning to another’s needs, and by empathizing with his or her emotional world, we help others to internalize a sense of well-being.’ Dr. Janelle Hallman, Living the Truth in Love (Ignatius Press) How many young persons are emotionally h

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Andrew Comiskey

Jul 4, 2016
2 min

The Nations Return

Last year, some Living Waters friends from Thailand and China urged us at DSM/LW to gather international leaders again in Kansas City. I balked and winced as I recalled the vision a dear friend had given me five years ago—it was nothing but a burnt field, still smoking. So was I. After 30 years of building Living Waters around the globe, I was asked by a council of Living Waters leaders to step off the team so that they could pursue other goals. Overnight, friends with a shar

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An Open Letter to Every Man who Leaves Wife/Kids Because He is ‘Gay’

Andrew Comiskey

Jun 6, 2016
3 min

An Open Letter to Every Man who Leaves Wife/Kids Because He is ‘Gay’

Dear ____, Bless you for finally being open about your same-sex attraction. That is a brave step and I pray that God and a faithful community will honor your confession. You have a big part to play in whether your honesty honors you and your loved ones. What you are admitting is that you have desires that seem to conflict with loving your wife and children. That is different from assuming a ‘gay’ identity. As we are sons of the one Father, made in His image, we can agree that

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How to Love a Vulnerable Friend: Responding to the ‘Transgendered’

Andrew Comiskey

May 9, 2016
3 min

How to Love a Vulnerable Friend: Responding to the ‘Transgendered’

First, thank you for your commitment to your friend. Sometimes devout, energized persons like you can help prevent an already vulnerable soul from doing further injury. I realize your friend is on the verge of doing just that by pursuing gender reassignment surgery. Gender is not a product of the mind; it is a fact of our birth. To be sure, your friend has a deep conflict with his or her true gender self, for which one must only be compassionate. Such compassion flows from th

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Andrew Comiskey

Oct 6, 2015
2 min

Rome Report 2: The Child is a Warrior

‘In today’s society, we grant adults any kind of sexual freedom they want and insist that children take whatever these adults are willing to give them.’ Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse In the center of Rome, we convened on October 2nd to fight for children—those most vulnerable to adults who now define ‘justice’ as the freedom to assume any sexual identity their feelings demand. The Church is caught between this new ‘justice’ and her own age-old version of human dignity as she conv

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Andrew Comiskey

Jun 8, 2015
2 min

Fighting Fathers

‘Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.’ (PR 29:18) Without vision from spiritual parents, God’s children wither. And wander. An entire generation is now subject to ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner and ‘gay marriage,’ and the scandalizing of persons who aspire to chastity. Christian leaders who respond to the chaos by using the soft language of ‘love’ (words like mercy, grace, and inclusion) without telling the truth of the Father’s claim upon our sexual and gender selves c

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Andrew Comiskey

Jun 1, 2015
2 min

Papa Do Preach

‘All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to say nothing.’ For a Pope quick to quip about any number of thorny issues, Frances was strangely silent about the 62% of Ireland who legalized ‘gay marriage’ last month. OK, OK, a Vatican official did declare the redefinition a ‘defeat for humanity.’ But for a Pope who insists on a merciful tone when addressing ‘gay’ issues, his omission here is nothing short of cruel. Papa, preach on the beauty of man for woman and woman fo

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 21, 2014
3 min

November 21, 2014: Good Samaritan

‘The Samaritan woman is every one of us. She is every human being who has ever sinned and betrayed the God who loved and made us, by chasing after other gods, trying desperately to get creatures to give us what only the Creator can give. She is every human being who has ever made a complete mess of their lives with choices from which they just can’t seem to break loose. She is every person who has a sinful, broken past that they’d just rather not talk about.’ Brant Pitre Like

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 4, 2014
3 min

November 5, 2014: Shameless Bride

‘Those who look to the Lord are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.’ (Ps 34:5) Today’s church is a strange blend of orthodoxy and worldliness. Recently, I heard a ‘devout’ woman rejoicing that a frustrated friend had left her husband for another woman and now lived with her. Apparently unaware of the serious impact that adultery and homosexuality might have on her friend’s three kids (not to mention the spirituality of all involved), she was glad that the two w

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 27, 2014
1 min

Join us for a Prayerful Lent

Starting next week, we at Desert Stream Ministries begin an 8-part prayer/intercession series designed to prepare us for Easter. Entitled ‘Downward Ascent,’ this series will focus each week on one of the Beatitudes (Matt. 5:1-12). We will explore the conditions of heart that free us to welcome Jesus afresh. At a time when gender and sexuality have never been more muddled, we need His clarity. Light will dawn as we apply a biblical understanding of the Beatitudes to His Cross.

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 25, 2013
3 min

Mercy 20: Merciful Heart

‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him. By this He meant the Spirit…’ (JN 7: 37-39) Each of us has been primed by merciful Jesus; He pours out life-giving Spirit upon the ground of our hearts. Holy water from without inspires a merciful fountain within. We learn to live from that well. Our sin, their sin, and the dulling of an idolatrous culture necessitate fresh

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 24, 2013
3 min

Mercy 19: Merciful Morality

“In that day, declares the Lord, you will call me my husband; you will no longer call me my master…I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord.” (Hosea 2: 16, 19, 20) Church needs to be a place of encounter between God and His lepers. We gather to open ourselves to the only One who knows us fully: what we are for and how far we have fallen

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 22, 2013
3 min

Mercy 17: Merciful Allegiance

‘If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.’ (LK 9: 23) Jesus’ Cross is the foundation of our freedom. His broken body is the narrow way to a spacious life. He asks us to follow Him, to align our new lives with His cruciform one. That means discovering in every hardship we face for the Kingdom’s sake a little cross. Here He refines our allegiance and purges our ‘yes’ of fanciful spirituality. He bursts the bubbles of illusion: the q

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 12, 2013
2 min

Mercy 7: Merciful Guides

‘The Church must know the difference between order and disorder, and be wise enough to contextualize disorder with grace and truth.’ Dr. Ray Anderson ‘Not a chance’, responded Check. Praise God. To uphold the dignity of sexual love within one context–one man committed to one woman—is a merciful mandate. It means that the Church calls all humanity to something higher, truer, and more honorable in human relationships than what comes ‘naturally’ in our lusts. I recall a host of

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 11, 2013
2 min

Mercy 6: The Merciful Path

‘Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert…and a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.’ (IS 35:6, 8) She believes that the host of sexual inclinations native to fallen humanity require validation of a variety of paths on which to urge our fellows to become the best GLBTQ….person (s)he can be. (The morphing of the acronym speaks for itself.) I am only grateful for the mercy of God revealed in Jesus Christ, who showed me the one p

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 9, 2013
3 min

Mercy 4: CrossCurrent

‘At the moment of Your death upon the cross, You opened an inexhaustible spring of Mercy for us, giving us Your dearest possession, the Blood and Water from Your heart. Such is the omnipotence of Your Mercy. From it, all grace flows to us.’ St. Faustina That healing flood greets me whenever I consider His mercy. Jesus allowed men to puncture Him in order to release the river that would deliver me. What love! His death releases life, His cross a current that makes me new! Jesu

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 7, 2013
2 min

Mercy 2: Aching For Mercy

‘Because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked, be merciful as He is.’(Lk 6: 35, 6) Rattled by a hundred things, I raced into Mass the other day certain only of many uncertainties. I sensed God pleading with me to entrust all to Him. I emptied myself before the Crucified and ached for Jesus. With the Holy Meal, He filled me with His abiding love. He made room in my heart for Himself, the day’s demands, and the mercy I want to offer others regardless of my circumstances. I w

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Andrew Comiskey

Oct 14, 2013
2 min

Twenty Days For Mercy

‘O blood and water that flows from the heart of the Savior as a fount of mercy for us, [we] trust in You!’ St. Faustina Today we highlight the importance of gender clarity and sexual chastity to a world shrouded in darkness. We at Desert Stream/Living Waters endure only because our feet are solidly planted on the Rock of Christ Jesus and His Church. There a river of mercy flows for all weary ones who struggle deeply with identity and desire but who have come to experience the

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Andrew Comiskey

Aug 5, 2013
3 min

Fighting for the Faithful

“And the Lord said to Elijah: ‘I reserve 7000 in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him.’ ” (1K 19: 18) We must stay tender and sharp. Healers carry a sword these days, dividing light from darkness. Humble cooperation matters more than ever. We need the whole healing community: pastors, counselors, teachers, intercessors, lay healers whose prayers bring His presence ever near to the broken. That great cloud of witnesses was on v

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Andrew Comiskey

Jul 30, 2013
2 min

Pope Francis: Clarity, Please

Take for example, his offhanded use of the English term ‘gay.’ Here he goes beyond affirming the dignity of persons with certain tendencies; he unintentionally affirms an identity which in our age has become the rallying point for an artificial ‘ethnos’, a people group, whose misbegotten activism has redefined marriage throughout the world. To be fair, Francis decries any kind of ‘lobby’ with which gays bully their way into power and privilege. Here he references the alleged

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