Race is a man-made social construct. A largely (but not solely) American one at that – originally created to justify unequal treatment and oppression for economic gain. Race, as we typically identify it, is an idea and concept more than it is a biological reality and it certainly isn’t a...
I’ve been meditating on the concept of “idle words” (Matthew 12:36). Strong’s Definitions indicate that in the Greek the word idle (argos) means inactive, unemployed, useless, and barren. A lot of translations use “careless” instead of idle, but that just doesn’t hit the same as inactive...
Regardless of what happens in November, we need more people in the body of Christ awakening to Kingdom identity, authority, and purpose. Kingdom citizens who aren’t awaiting revival, but recognize that they ARE revival; brothers and sisters who carry and release glory, lean into Heaven for...
I’m not exhausting myself debating about issues when the conversation isn’t solution-oriented in its focus and isn’t rooted in the beauty of both love and truth. The sound of clanging cymbals is way too deafening these days. Let’s rise higher.
It’s a sign of mental myopia when a Christian / Kingdom citizen loudly proclaims the institutional racism of Planned Parenthood due to the founder’s advocacy of eugenics and the disproportionate placement of abortion centers within walking distance of heavily Black and Latino populated...
Empathy is “the ability or capacity to understand and share the feelings of another.” Those feelings may be positive or negative. Compassion is “the sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” This is a distinct difference. With compassion, you’re...
The dictionary defines opinion as: a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
I believe it’s time to wrap up this series on Breaking Mental Myopia: “Black Lives Matter.” In Part Three, I shared one significant way that having a Republican/Conservative lens over a Kingdom lens is destructive to oneness and provided recommendations for how to shift to a “Kingdom first lens”...
Kingdom solutions are needed to address the massive economic gaps that exist in the United States.
The core issue that hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of people of many shades are crying out about right now is racial bias and excessive (or undue) force in policing. Yes, there are other agendas happening simultaneously and yes there is debate over the validity of the variety...
My ongoing prayers of declaration have been for a break in the mental myopia running rampant in the body of Christ. Mental myopia is the result of seeing people and situations through an “all or nothing” lens instead of Heaven’s lens. It’s highly destructive and runs in direct opposition to Kingdom...
“The only woke I wanna be is Kingdom woke.” ~Stephanie Lippincott The calls to “Wake up!” seem to mean a number of different things right now in the body of Christ. “Wake Up! The mainstream media is in cahoots with an extremist agenda and they are trying to take down the country...