Tonight I watched a storm come in. I had just been spending time with Abba, and I was walking past the window when I saw the clouds growing dark. For a mountain boy such as myself, a storm coming in is a spiritual experience...and especially when that boy hasn't been to the mountains in a while. As the clouds started to pick up speed and lightening started to flare, I stared hard into the clouds and for a minute or two I was able to drown the cars passing by out of my imagination with a thousand memories of the cool breeze and the groaning of creation stirring to let loose its sermon. The sermon being [...]

“God does nothing, but through prayer” John Wesley Western mentality wants end results. The problem is that the end result that we’re looking for aren’t the end result that God’s looking for. (Isaiah 55:9) We want a “good meeting,” God wants to shed His light on darkened hearts and awaken them to His fullness. We want people healed, God wants to capture the attention of his Bride in such a way that she move with Him, run with Him, when He breathes out she breathes in, He wants to reveal Himself to everyone through signs and wonders…but the signs and wonders aren’t the reason. He isn’t interested in a power display...if God gave us a full [...]

"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." ~Genesis 1:2   "'Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?'" ~Job 38:16   "Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me." ~Psalm 42:7 I'm a constant state of being shaken. It's like everything that I thought once was reality, time and time again shows itself to be fake. And now I'm to the point where I have to offer to myself some sort of case on the matter. Because while [...]

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." (Matthew 5:7) I remember Lately, that's how things have been. Remembering what? Life. You know: the good, the bad, the acclaim and the moments that make you blush as you hope that you're the only one that remembers. As I tie together half images and mere residues of what I think really happened, drop by drop, little details trickle down into my present mind's eye: cold mornings on the playground, playing football on concrete, stomping around in Arizona's high desert, scraping myself on the stone streets of Bolivia, the dust of Mexico getting in my eyes and nose, and the sunset being shoved down by the [...]