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At Peace In War

June 6, 2012 by 19 Comments
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As ‘gay pride month’, June always provokes a kind of dread in me. This month started out with a bang—a federal appeals court struck down the existing federal law defining marriage solely between a man and woman. Gay pride will swagger throughout the month, amplified by fawning journalists. Many see the end in sight: finally, our nation is recognizing that homosexuality is a moral good—utterly normal, utterly on par with heterosexuality as solid ground for marriage and family. Utter nonsense. While praying the other day, God showed me a picture of an oil spill that was spreading out and encasing vulnerable, beautiful creatures. … [Read more...]

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Bravo to North Carolinians Who Stood for Marriage

May 9, 2012 by 6 Comments
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I am about to impart some prophetic healing ministry to our Living Waters Leaders in Belgium and France; our groups have flourished in the French-speaking world amid profound sexual immorality and unbelief about the authority of the Church to heal the sexually broken. Yet the going is rough for them, and we are all encouraged and strengthened by the news of victory in North Carolina. That state just passed a constitutional amendment that upholds marriage as solely heterosexual while prohibiting activist judges from claiming that 'gay marriage' is constitutional. Due to the new law, these judges cannot overturn the existing law, as they did … [Read more...]

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Rousing a Captive Culture

February 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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A well-known Christian leader, hammered by the sexual immorality of his family members, just announced his shift on embracing the homosexual practice of a particular loved one. He is on the brink of accepting ‘gay marriage.’ ‘How can I not?’ he reasoned, as he listed the divorces, affairs, co-habitation and children born out-of-wedlock in his family. We are inundated daily with the breakdown of holy boundaries in heterosexual relating. A new poll reveals that 61% of US singles have sex on their first date; not surprisingly, for the first time in US history, more than half of births to American women under 30 now occur outside of … [Read more...]

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Authority to Name

February 8, 2012 by 13 Comments
Creation of Adam and Eve, stained glass window in the church of Dinant, Belgium, created in 1821.

A federal appeal court ruled yesterdaythat Prop. 8--our voter-approved definition of real marriage--violated the US Constitution. Fear not: this is but the latest of numerous efforts to overturn the people's will concerning marriage. Tuesday's decision will be appealed and most likely 'fast tracked' to the US Supreme Court who will decide once and for all the definition of marriage for the USA. (In the meantime, we trust that no 'gay marriages' will be allowed in CA.) Join us at DSM to pray for the high court to quickly and justly uphold what marriage is. As we await that decision, let us overcome our fears of defining marriage rightly. … [Read more...]

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Corruption

February 2, 2012 by 32 Comments
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A wise man said: ‘The corruption of society begins with a failure to call things by their proper names.’ Nowhere is this more apparent than in the latest battles to redefine marriage throughout the USA. A senator from New Jersey insists that ‘marriage equality’ is a ‘civil right guaranteed by our Constitution’; in Washington State, a senator fell off the fence to become the defining vote for ‘gay marriage’ on these grounds: ‘I believe in traditional marriage…but this is about everyone having the same opportunities for love and companionship and family and security that I have enjoyed.’ Equality. Love. Family. … [Read more...]

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No More Angels?

January 23, 2012 by 12 Comments
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As I begin my 54th year (my birthday was January 13th), I am aware of a tendency to lock into familiar ways and to resist what is peculiar, untested by my experience. Wisdom? Nah…More likely the hardening of the arteries, the closing of the womb, that menopausal tendency in both men and women to rebuff angels and resist the new life they announce. I pray for the simple, elastic faith of Mary, Jesus’ mother; I marvel at her response to angel Gabriel. His announcement that she will become the mother of God troubles her, but she believes it. All she wants to know is: ‘How will this come about?’ She trusts God, even though it means … [Read more...]

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California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8

November 17, 2011 by 3 Comments
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Please rejoice with us at Desert Stream Ministries as we give special thanks to God this Thanksgiving. The ever-contested victory for marriage ( Prop. 8 ) in CA was upheld yet again  by the Supreme Court. The governor and district attorney of CA refused to defend Prop. 8 once it passed, demanding its proponents defend it yet again. Thank you CA Supreme Court for upholding their right to do so in the face of opposition, and in general, for supporting voter-based initiatives like Prop. 8. Once again, whenever the people of the USA vote on marriage, they uphold its true definition. Thank you voters of CA, the amazing Alliance … [Read more...]

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The French Lesson

May 6, 2010 by 1 Comment
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My first desert experience occurred shortly after I became a Christian. Having moved back to my parent’s home from the gay ghetto of Long Beach, I grew bored. Fast. So I moved back to the beach, only this time to a family of French folks who were renting out a tiny 20’ by 8’ room in the back of their large home. Not a good idea. My motives were impure—I wanted to have fun again, and the peculiar Christians I had met were not fun. Needless to say, I immediately returned to my old habits. Only this time it was not fun. I found myself guilty, ill at ease with new ‘friends’, feeling and acting false. I was not being true to the … [Read more...]

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Reunion

April 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment

‘He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.’ (Mk 16:6) Resurrection is reunion: Jesus, torn from His Father, now returns to Him. Evil demanded payment: crucifixion, the vast distance between God and God. Love crossed over that gap, conquering sin and death. Resurrection is the ultimate Father/Son reunion. Every Easter, God extends to us a fresh invitation to reenter that reunion. Jesus descended into hell to get us out of there. He rose again into perfect union with His Father, that we might join Him there. His reunion with the Father becomes ours, His triumph over sin and death becomes ours. The … [Read more...]

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Abandonment

April 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment

‘But I cry to you for help, O Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you. Why, O Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me? I have suffered your terrors and am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. All day long they surround me like a flood; They have completely engulfed me. You have taken my companions from me; the darkness is my closest friend.’ PS 88:13-18 Jesus’ rejection, abuse, and murder at the hands of men were not His greatest sorrow. It was His Father’s abandonment of Him on the cross. Jesus expected the scourge of political and religious foes. The desertion of His … [Read more...]

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