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‘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...