Category: General

The word we translate “bishop” means “oversee, look over.” It is a word interchangeable with elder. It is not a title or office, has nothing in particular to do with hierarchy as often applied by institutional polity and government, a leader over several other leaders or churches. It came to mean that after the Bible […]

Over the course of my daily function as a fathering leader with international assignments, I find myself suddenly in emotional energy investments for no apparent reason. I suddenly feel that tightening at the throat and eyes that indicate weeping for many people. I’m not much one to cry because I become a bit dysfunctional if […]

Reblogging because so pertinent to now.

Expanded version of blog post on Kingdom Leadership Dynamics

Refreshing some ideas for this moment.

In the season of actualization, prophets hold onto the full body of work spoken by previous generation, who did not live to see what they prophesied, while living that fullness and fulfillment with anticipation of a prepared and positioned Remnant people properly responding to the season of actualization.

An apostle can only expect an ekklesia where there is kingdom, and the ekklesia can only be composed of kingdom citizens.

A prevailing sense of isolation among prophets and seers, produced, by erroneous interpretations and implementations of “intimacy with God”, leaves us with people operating in a vacuum who should be fully engaged in open, leadership level, public dialogue. Prophets as leaders escapes us. Some apostles even assume prophets are mouthpieces with no more responsibility than […]

Internal Prophetic Communication Every believer has a conversation going on inside, talking to and with themselves as the mind carries on internal dialogue. The conversation is often composed of positives and negatives, or comparisons and contrasts, as the mind analyzes thoughts, combines them into concepts, make decisions, reaches conclusions. Believers argue with themselves a way of […]

We begin with the basic root word, phe, and add the prefix, pro, to arrive at the most basic meaning of “speak openly.” The basic meaning of the prophetic is “to speak what is hidden openly.” Prophecy communicates hidden, mysterious, or unknown into the open, known, and understandable. We forth tell or foretell, but we […]

“You no longer wander as vagabonds outside as illegal immigrants or tourists of God’s kingdom; you are now authorized citizens of God’s oikos.” Ephesians 2:19 God has a big house, the oikos of God. All citizens of the kingdom, born into that citizenry, are authorized to be called “God’s children,” so they live in His […]

The testing of leaders is necessary, for only in the testing do we measure reality. We don’t test leaders to see if they are called since we’ve determined that before we recognize their calling. We test leaders to measure function and sustainability. Testing is necessary to all concerned with the leadership role they fulfill. Leaders […]

Jesus tells Simon Peter that satan has demanded to sift the entire group of disciples but He has prayed for Simon to bring restoration after the sifting is over. The process of sifting is actually positive in process and end result, but it is does involve some violent shaking to expose the distinctly different elements […]

Always be Sober In a Leviathan-dominated spiritual condition, controlling the focus of your thinking is vital to maintaining your leadership and representation of heaven. “Always be sober, Timothy,” Paul says. Some people say, “Focus on the positive.” That can also be a dead end of avoidance where responsibility requires us to be problem-solvers. Of course, […]

The Blueprint Room I once visited a construction company’s offices to review blueprints, and the company had an entire room dedicated to blueprint storage. Large-drawered cabinets dominated the room, clearly marked, collecting a vast museum of proposed and previously constructed building projects. The person I was with went to a drawer and lifted a set […]