“I would like every one of you to speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.” (I Corinthians 14:5) God has given us spiritual gifts to bless the world around us yet we spend so much time explaining them away.  Why do we fight so hard against these things? Is pride or false humility keeping you from […]

“Houston’s going to Rock It!  We are going to drill down deep and strike a New Kind of Oil.” In scripture the invisible realm is more real and more powerful than the visible realm.  In the seen realm I cannot move mountains but in the unseen realm I can move mountains.  Hurricane Harvey came and devastated my hometown of Houston and pretty much the entire Gulf Coast of Texas.  The seen was obvious and it was powerful.  The impact of […]

“To prophesy is to connect your tongue with God’s heart” (Pastor Les) This morning we experienced a small but powerful prophetic activation where Les spoke a ‘word’ over someone and then had 4 mothers ‘act’ out that word with hugs and whispers.   It started (in Les) with an image, then an emotion and then morphed into a very short, sweet and powerful word of God moment for our friend. Pastor Les agrees with the Apostle Paul that all would […]

“Christians are not meant to be hiding in their homes hoping the world leaves them alone. We are called to be outside and changing our world  one neighbor at a time” (Pastor Les) Many, maybe most, Christians believe that being a good neighbor is simply not being a bad, annoying neighbor.  This idea that Jesus wants us to love our neighbors and that commandment is fulfilled by smiling, not getting drunk and yelling at 3:00 a.m. or keeping our yard […]

“We are so frequently stolen from that we don’t even know what is stolen!”  (Cherie Bosch) Did you know that in scripture a thief is to pay 7x’s what was stolen?  Did you know that you can chase down the enemy and recover your destiny plus more?  How many of you want back what the enemy has stolen plus a heavy interest payment? Every one of us has been hijacked in some area of our destiny.  Our friend Cherie Bosch […]

“Prophecy is the love language of God”   (Kris Vallottoon) Pastor Les takes us thru a small portion of Ezekiel 37 at a time when God takes Ezekiel on a walk thru a valley of dry bones.  We discover that… God doesn’t ask Ezekiel for his opinion but his faith We never get to decide what is dead If we don’t speak then things will remain dead We speak God’s heart, not our opinions Les challenges us to prophesy scripture […]

“Why did the Prophetic nature of Jesus wreck the Religious? Not because it pointed out their sin but because it highlighted God’s love for the Sinner!” (Pastor Les) We assume that the Fruit of the Spirit is to be manifest in our daily lives but rarely do we imagine that the Gifts of the Spirit are to be manifest regularly in our lives. The Apostle Paul says that he would like everyone in the Church at Corinth to speak in […]

“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given unto him.  But he must ask in faith, without doubting…” (James 1:5-6a) We are called Believers, not Feelers.  We are a Faith-Based Community and not a community of Thinkers.   Our feelings, thoughts and actions are meant to follow our FAITH.  Instead, we allow our thoughts, emotions and experiences shape our faith.   When we believe God’s […]

Faith is confidence in God–that God is who He says He is and that we are who He says we are.  Faith is confidence in the voice that comes from the One we cannot see.  Without faith it is impossible to please God, yet we almost always see faith as the way to see miracles instead of the way to enter into a deeper, more trusting relationship with a Good Dad (see Hebrews 11:6).  It is from the midst of […]

“The Dad of Jesus wants to be your Dad” (Jim Sim) One piece of Kingdom Culture is that God is Good and that His blessing is determined more by His goodness than by our ability to be good. Our friend and missionary to Panama shares an inspiring message about 3 Bad Dads and how God continues to speak blessing over our lives even as we mess up in our lives. You think you have problems that keeps God from liking […]