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I’m grateful, even joyful about changes going on at IHOP. Aquinas said joy was a state of well-being based on reality. Let’s get real....

I love the International House of Prayer (IHOP). Its crisis is our crisis. In ’99, Mike and Diane Bickle shifted from pastoring a church...

Pope Francis said in early October that he would bless same-sex unions. He made it official today in a rare declaration from the...

“Who are you…what do you have to say for yourself? ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness…’” (Jn. 1:22-23). Advent pops our...

Courage and Common Sense ‘These men began to argue with Stephen, but they could not stand up against his wisdom or the Spirit by which he...

Contending for Transformation ‘Jesus is a foe of any kind of fatalistic mindset that reduces His creation to something less than what He...

Contending for the Good News ‘Our Gospel came to you, not simply with words, but with power, with the Holy Spirit, and with deep...

Holy Fear ‘He will be the foundation for our times—a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: fear of the Lord is key to this...

Contending for Justice ‘In the darkness of the unexpressed, sin poisons the whole of a man.’ - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Give me a bold sinner...

Free Fall ‘Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong; He will take...

Deeper Ache ‘Those who are whole don’t need a doctor but those who are sick. I come not to call the righteous but sinners to...

Guidance and Goals #2 ‘Lead me to the Rock that is higher than myself.’-Ps. 61:2 The biggest problem with failing to call LGBTQ+ seekers...

Guidance and Goals #1 “The moral life as John Paul II understood it is a drama: a drama lived in the gap between the person I am and the...

Smashing the Serpent #2 Grieved by our divides, made whole only though Divine Mercy, we stand and fight for Her radiance: the Church’s...

Repentance ‘There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God’- Ps. 46:4 Turn from the false and dive into the depths of His...

Originally published March 21, 2022 ‘The sin of this century is the loss of a sense of sin.’- Pope Pius XII Holy fear over the horror of...

'Secure attachment means the child feels confident that others will be there to protect, comfort and support him…insecure attachment...

‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...

‘The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds…it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital...

‘It is time to wake up from sleep’ (Romans 13:11). Wake up. Welcome the wholeness that is yours. Receive it. Lay hold of it. At the dawn...