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Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis just two years into my Catholic commitment. This began a deeply personal, disruptive, and...

‘He afflicted you with hunger then fed you…’ (Deut. 8:3).   I hungered for Jesus and community and California after leaving IHOP-KC. Why...

God is younger than all else. St. Augustine   I have a 99-year-old mother who doesn’t worry about the gap between a body that hurts and...

‘John! John! Wake up! Jesus is God’s Son! Jesus is God’s Son!’ (Carol to John on her conversion, The Way It Was )   Carol saw what others...

Previously published on March 30th, 2015 ‘Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good’ (Rom. 12:21). All sins are not created...

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

‘We didn’t have a youth program; we were a youth program.’ (Carol Wimber on their first ‘church.’) Young people poured out like living...

‘Whenever I remember the beautiful days of our salvation, I can almost smell the orange blossoms again. The whole experience for both of...

Hardships in childhood hinder and help. Much seems to depend on the person experiencing them. For John Wimber and Karol Wojtyla, gaps in...