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The Prostituted Church

July 28, 2026
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The Church has been exploited as a woman beguiled into prostitution. Much like the prostitutor uses the prostitute as an instrument to gain wealth by the exploitation of others, so the church has been used as an instrument to exploit those less fortunate, those ignorant of scriptures, and those easily led by herd mentality. Although the prostitutor is manipulating the church, are her hands completely blood-free? Let’s allow history make that determination. Read more “The Prostituted Church” →

Trusting God

In God We Trust

July 3, 2026
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You may be in a good place with God, but perhaps it’s time to come up a little higher. The mountain in your life is God’s making. You need to ascend it. The only way you’re going to ascend to the summit is by nurturing a relationship with Him in the valley, through knowing Him, loving Him, and trusting him.

Where Are You?

October 12, 2025
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Where Are You?

This question, coming from God is not a question to which He needs an answer, but you do. He knows exactly where you are. That is why He is calling it to your attention. Ever been so absorbed in thought or your cell phone that you bump into objects or people? Or find yourself pulling into the parking lot of your job or the driveway of your home, but cannot recall the journey there? You were on autopilot. Sometimes we go “auto” on God. We do our church routine; we have it down pat. We can do it with our eyes closed, and sometimes they are! But is that a good thing?

Bleeding Out

August 27, 2025August 27, 2025
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As a young girl, it was a long walk with my yellow No. 2 pencils, complete with extra pop-on erasers, a glue-bound notebook, and a brown paper bag lunch that housed a hot dog with coleslaw wrapped in waxed paper. Although the hot dog bun was soggy by lunchtime, it was still tasty. Wearing one of only two new outfits, it was the first day of school, sixty-five years ago.

Today, Chromebooks have replaced yellow pencils and learning cursive. In-house food chains like McDonald’s and Chipotle are now serving as cafeteria options in some schools, replacing the traditional 32-cent hot lunches. The ring of the bell brought the pledge of allegiance and perhaps prayer. Under our current administration, students may or may not pray, but one thing is sure: all students will know the protocol for lockdown. Among the myriad things students and teaching professionals must prepare for to have a successful year, sadly, one of them is how to stay safe if the school is under attack.

The Voice in the Storm

August 1, 2025
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We all have storms in our lives. Many come from without, and some come from within the ranks of the people we know best. During a tornado the experts tell us how to prepare and take cover. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. But who is the expert that speaks to you during the storms of life when it is going to take more than taking cover in a bathtub or a ditch?

I want to share with you three ways God speaks to us during a storm. The most elementary way God speaks is to your storm to shut it down. As time goes on, He no longer speaks to your storm, but to you. Finally, you will reach a place in God where He will not only speak to you during your storm, but He will speak through you.

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Faith that Moves

The Road to Emmaus

January 6, 2025
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Sometimes things happen in our lives that upset the apple cart. It throws a wrench into our plans and things are not how they were supposed to be. We become frustrated, angry, and worst of all we feel like we have been left ‘holding the bag’. We want to run, get away from the scene of the incident, the mistake, the misunderstanding, the trauma. We may or may not physically leave our location, but we need a mental leave of absence from everything around us to escape to a place of calm. A place where we regain control of our lives.

Pivot

December 28, 2024
by admin

Hey! Have you watched the Food Network channel when a contestant in a cooking competition had to change the meal they had intended on preparing when the process kind of goes sideways and ruins their initial plan? It normally happens at a critical time in the competition when more time has elapsed on the clock than time left to cook. But they must change, they must pivot and do something entirely different within the timeframe that is left. Panic sets in.

Treasures in Egypt – Part 2

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
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Treasures in Egypt Part 1 addressed the spiritual characteristics of the seasons of our lives. There were 4 Key Takeaways.

Spiritual Seasons 4 Key Takeaways

We cannot determine the length of any season in our lives but we can impact the length and the content of the season.
The place you experience your spring and summer can also be the same place where you experience your winter and vice versa.
Work the season you are in to yield excellence in the next.
As you cycle through each season year after year you will began to discover there is treasure in every season.

Part 1 covered the first takeaway and the remaining three will be covered in this publication.

Spiritual Growth

Treasures in Egypt – Part 1

July 1, 2024August 1, 2025
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Seasons

As with Joseph in the Book of Genesis, we all have an Egypt in our lives accompanied with the various seasons it imposes upon us. Whether a season of hilarious joy or one of breath-snatching grief, we eventually discover there is treasure in every season.

Spiritual Warfare

Strongholds Part 2

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024
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Part 1 defined and exposed strongholds intertwined in our belief structures. This writing presents how one can be free of this mental straightjacket and maintain deliverance.

2 Corinthians 10:3-4 NKJV

³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.

⁴For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

Strongholds are:

Mental or emotional space controlled by the spiritual enemy that he uses as a staging area to wage war against you and God.
A spiritual fortress made up of erroneous thoughts that take root in your soul fortified by demonic forces that empower these thoughts into actions.

RISE!

The Prostituted Church

In God We Trust

Where Are You?

Where Are You?

The Voice in the Storm

The Road to Emmaus

Pivot

Read more “Pivot” →

Treasures in Egypt – Part 2

Treasures in Egypt – Part 1

Seasons

Strongholds Part 2

Emotions