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Alexis circled Father William at our gathering and waited on him like an attentive wife. They looked at each other adoringly. When I...

‘When we lead with our strengths, we create competition; we create community when we lead with our weaknesses.’ Mike Bickle Mike Bickle...

‘Is it a time for you to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains in ruins? Go…and build the house, so that I may take...

Please. We love the Holy Family: Joseph, Mary, Jesus. As the embodiment of binary goodness, we need their witness more than ever. Think...

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...

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...

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...

Conquering Ourselves for Her ‘We are deceived to think that it is possible to become a human being without conquering oneself, without...

Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...

I grew up in church, hearing sermons about God’s intentions for man and woman, the preciousness of purity and why we shouldn’t 'give...

Original entry date: Spring 2017 Newsletter Conversion: The realization that a loved one has assumed a false identity invites you to go...

Original entry date: March 14, 2016 God calls each of us to be a river of life for others. Chastity liberates that flow; sourced in...