You’ve probably already figured out that my first name isn’t actually “Northwest” and that I’m not really Gandalf the Grey. This is a “pen...

I’ve come to suspect that it is one of the most egotistical and self-aggrandizing things we can do to declare that “God causes sickness in ...

We had been struggling to plant this church for more than a year, and we were confused. We were three starry-eyed young men and our three...

Since the character of God was brilliantly defined by Jesus, we can trust that if God is a murderer (as some claim, when they read of Anani...

Some believers don’t like to talk about spiritual warfare. Recently, someone said to me, “There is not much of a battle when I flip the lig...

John the Baptist once said of Jesus, “He must increase and I must decrease,” and forever after, religious Christians have murmured the same...

I’ve met a number of folks who claim that they are Old Testament Prophets, who most of their time spouting condemnation and death. I’m not ...

The gospel which we preach nowadays, which I refer to as “the gospel of salvation,” is largely about leading people to a salvation experi...

There’s a principle in prophetic ministry: even people with no real prophetic gifts can prophesy when the Holy Spirit is present and manifes...

Hebrews, chapter 12 has been rather a seminal passage for many of God’s people in recent days. For a long time, we were focused on verse...

The scene was an AA Allen meeting, back in the day. At Allen's tent meetings, he regularly had demons manifesting. So it was his policy ...

God’s people have been rebuked with a couple of phrases plucked out of the Bible more times than I care to recount: “Decently and in ord...

I received an unspeakably great honor recently. I was at a bible study with folks less than half my age, unchurched folks. After the stud...

One of the most useful insights from reading the Book of Job is seeing the difference between what went on in Heaven, and how it manifested ...

Africa? It was a quiet day. I was a quiet evangelical man, doing my quiet evangelical duty: I was in the middle of my "quiet time&quo...

In areas subjects of theology, even a small change is formidable, and I believe we’re encountering the beginnings of such a change in how t...

There’s an old saying: “Beggars can’t be choosers.” Sometimes, it’s actually right. If you’re living on hand-me-downs, you don’t get to...

One of the reasons I teach Hebrews 12:2, Philippians 4.8, Ephesians 1:18, Matthew 6:22-23, etc so very much is because I experience them so ...

Very recently, I had a series of strange experiences. It began when I was getting ready for my work day. As I was picking up keys and w...

I’ve been thinking about the God of the Bible. Particularly God as he is revealed in the Old Testament. Who is this God? What is he lik...