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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 10, 20103 min read

Opening Doors and Floodgates

London, where the waters of mercy had sprung up for me years earlier, became deep ground for Living Waters. Jonathan Hunter and I took...

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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 8, 20103 min read

Falling Mercies

You could say that the way to Vineyard Anaheim had been paved in righteousness—we had been cast out of our home church for doing what was...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 7, 20103 min read

A Severe Mercy, Part 2

During the long drive to the confrontation at hand (see #18), I felt the sentence of death. And yet peace. Something in me was dying but...

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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 5, 20103 min read

A Merciful Friend

Digging ditches for God’s mercy to flow into the desert of sexual and relational brokenness—hard work made joyful by amazing workmen....

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 4, 20103 min read

Merciful Exposure

The Fuller years were demanding and fruitful. We pushed ourselves hard. Departing from ‘student housing’ in Pasadena, Annette and I...

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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

Mar 2, 20103 min read

Mercy For All

The first few years of Desert Stream had been defined by same-sex strugglers; that began to change as the word got out that men and women...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 1, 20103 min read

Eyes of Mercy

Annette is an amazing woman. She partnered with me faithfully in these first years of Desert Stream. She endured the threat of men who...

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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 26, 20103 min read

Desert Stream

Every Wednesday night for two years, we met in the home of a well-known interior designer. Charlie, along with many of his friends, was...

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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 25, 20103 min read

Currents of Mercy

Three persons—three distinct currents of mercy—poured into Annette and I and became foundational to how we loved and served. Without...

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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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Andrew Comiskey

Feb 21, 20102 min read

The Pool at Piccadilly Circus

Soon after the French party, I moved home and determined to grow with the Christian friends I had. Fun or not, they were my people. My...

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