If a child has not been disciplined, or held accountable for their behavior, they will likely view any exercise of authority as cruel, extreme, and dictatorial. On the other extreme, those who have been wounded by abusive authority will tend to see even the wisest, most gentle, and caring authority as brutal and threatening.

       Like wounded animals, wounded people tend to fear anyone that would try to get close to them, even those seeking to help them. These two scenarios capture a large part of the human population. This makes how we relate...

       When the Bible says the Spirit moved upon the “formless void,” which could also be translated as “chaos,” this describes what the earth was in the beginning. But as the Spirit moved, He brought forth a beautiful new creation. This is what He does when He moves. His specialty is to turn chaos into beautiful creations. Even the chaos we make out of our lives at times can become beautiful when He moves upon it.

       The Spirit will not likely do things the way we would like for them to be done, because this...

       In the Lord’s last recorded prayer before He was crucified, He asked the Father for one of the greatest benefits of all for His disciples: "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17). To be sanctified in truth is more than just believing it; it is being changed by it.

       How is it that we can hear His truth and be changed so little? One reason is because we have been making converts instead of disciples, as we are commanded in the Great Commission. When we read all that Jesus...

       In the previous Word for the Week, I began discussing a series of dreams I’ve had recently about the coming harvest. They were warnings about how near the harvest is and how unprepared the body of Christ is for it. Even so, we must now turn to the Lord, for Whom nothing is impossible, as we are about to be in way over our heads with this. We cannot just continue in “business as usual.” Feeling this urgency, I made a temporary pivot from the study of Daniel and Revelation for WFTW to seek a current...

       We have taken some time to prepare for a deep dive into the books of Daniel and Revelation. I was compelled to do this because I know much of what we cover will shake some foundations. For this reason, we need to strengthen our foundations, which is always a good thing, as we are already experiencing Hebrews 12:26-27, in which the Lord says, “‘Yet once more will I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.’ This expression, ‘Yet once more,’ denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that...