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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 28, 20104 min read

Holy Week of the Merciful Cross: Knowing Him More

On Palm Sunday, Lent becomes Holy Week—the seven days leading to the cross. Perhaps the parallel between Jesus’ 40-days in the desert and...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 27, 20104 min read

Merciful Children

Through our four children, mercy breaks like waves upon Annette and me. They delight us. All in their twenties now, each possess unique...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 26, 20103 min read

Merciful Dad

At the core of my same-sex attraction was the struggle to find a father, and so discover my own masculine power and purpose. I had a...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 25, 20103 min read

The Mercy of Marriage

Since our transition to Kansas City, God has provided two men who have stood with me in prayerful friendship: Mike and Morgan. I am not...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 24, 20103 min read

Mercy for the Bride, from the Bride

While en route to a Living Waters Leadership gathering in Europe, I was moved deeply by God’s heart for His European bride. The church...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 22, 20103 min read

Roused By Mercy

At the dawn of the new millennium, I noticed a growing darkness in the area of gender and sexuality. Powerless to overcome perversion,...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 21, 20103 min read

Mercy From Rome

While doing a conference in Denver many years ago, a vigorous young man introduced himself to me as Christopher West; he was then the...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 19, 20103 min read

Dunking the River Goddess

I hate idolatry. The worship of false gods turns humans into animals. While worship of the one true God humbles and exalts what is best...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 18, 20103 min read

Mercy for the Sinner

I met Benjie Cruz at the onset of our first trip to the Philippines. Virmi, our gracious host, had arranged for him to be our liaison as...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 17, 20103 min read

Merciful Rest

Running hard in the jungles of Venezuela or on the pampas of Argentina (or crazy lost anywhere in Europe) may sound fun but actually it...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 12, 20103 min read

Dancing in the Dark

In the expanding world of Living Waters, God’s mercy always took the form of my travelling partners: alongside of men like Kin Lancaster,...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 11, 20103 min read

Finding the Way Home

One of the perils of my long distance running overseas is the threat of getting lost. No idle threat: I have been thoroughly disoriented...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 9, 20103 min read

A Deeper Well, Waters Rising

The move to Anaheim was a shakedown. Everything that could be shaken was—from our relationship with our previous church to the still...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 6, 20103 min read

A Severe Mercy, Part 1

An early lesson we learned in Desert Stream: sexual sin always has consequences. It tears the fabric of individual souls, or...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 3, 20103 min read

A ‘Fuller’ Mercy

Throughout the eighties, Fuller Theological Seminary helped us to establish a sure foundation for our offering of mercy. (I was a student...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 28, 20103 min read

Mercy Street

Although most of the healing and care-giving we did was behind closed doors, the waters levels rose and poured out onto the streets. The...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 27, 20103 min read

Messy Mercy

Annette and I did not quite know what we had signed up for in those first two years at Desert Stream at Charlie’s. We were willing, and...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 24, 20103 min read

Merciful Intimacy

Around this time I was baptized in the Pacific Ocean. Amid a winter storm, my pastor dunked me into the waters, and counted the old man...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 23, 20103 min read

Clean Water

The temptation to fall with other men sexually increased after I first proclaimed healing from homosexuality. The word of my testimony,...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 21, 20103 min read

Drinking Water

After Europe, I moved into a UCLA fraternity house crammed with conservative Christian men. They were Republicans, I was the on the...

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