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Tag: spiritual warfare

  • Dream: Unfinished Business

    Dream: Unfinished Business

    She grumbles: “I didn’t want to be doing this. I should be having fun and using children.” // That was odd. I ask, “Did you mean ‘having children’?”

  • 4/29 Limerick: Fruit Fight

    The battle to bring heaven near 
 / Is not fought with arrow or spear

  • Dream: Infiltrate

    Dream: Infiltrate

    Our school has been taken over.
 We are going to take it back.

  • 2/26 Poetry Slam: Pain Free Heart Break 💔 ❤️‍🩹

    I need a heart break / Like a jail break // All this heart pain / Needs a new drain

  • 12/21 Limerick: Put On vs Off

    So put off delays / And put on His praise

  • Divorcing the War on Marriage

    We seem to be ignoring a painful reality. The church lost the war on marriage decades ago: on the issue of divorce. Maybe we should take the time to understand why before we make the same mistakes all over again.

  • A Covenant for Renewal

    Lord, unify your family, starting with mine.

  • Dream: Exterminate!

    Dream: Exterminate!

    Our garden has been infested with poke-lizards at least as long as my son has been alive. A few years ago we decided to get rid of them. Now there is only one place left for them to hide. Time to set off the lizard-bomb.

  • Dream: Mafia Don

    Dream: Mafia Don

    The don helps us out. Protects us from the other guy. I think he’s my friend. And maybe he really is fond of me. But then I catch a glimpse Of what happens When he feels threatened…

  • Hosea’s Lament

    To the tune of Psalm 22. Oh Lord! How long must I wait? How long will you leave me in dismay? The one I love has turned against me. Her teeth rip into my skin. Hard sticks break my bones. Lord, I am not innocent in your eyes. Who can…

  • Twelve Steps to Breakthrough: Free Courts of Heaven Worksheet

    This worksheet is designed to help you achieve victory over the spiritual and psychological “curses” that prevent you from living the abundant life God intends for you. Specifically, it provides a structured format for us to “come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find…

  • LEAD! A.7 Man’s Rebellion

    When God created the world, He gave us (mankind) dominion over all the plants and animals. But it was not an unconditional grant: rather, we have a responsibility to take His already “very good” creation to the next level, by filling the earth with His image. And if we fail…

  • ESS is More: Essential Skills for Serving

    For the third part of my trilogy on leadership development, I want to focus on practical skills. Here’s my short list (twelve, again) of the key abilities I believe leaders need to cultivate. Anything you would add or subtract?

  • Twelve Steps to Arrow-Proof Your Ministry

    Apologies for the pretentious title, but I wanted to challenge myself to identify and reorganize the lessons we covered in last year’s leadership class into a coherent prescription for facing down “Ministry Killers”.