Gathered Around the Fire

2020 Perfect Vision = 5780 Both the Roman calendar and the Hebraic calendar indicate we are moving into a new decade A new season. 50 years after the Jesus People Movement revival.  Without revival, the church folk will not go out into the harvest.  Without going out it is impossible to bring in a harvest.  REVIVAL = When the church returns to their first love. HARVEST = when a revived church becomes the 'second' son who goes out into the field to bring in the harvest.      What is your end game?     What are you laboring for? A mansion in the sky? A cloud?    A golden harp An eternal vacation? It sounds a lot like self-indulgence to me.  Consider this story. 7:00 am You are still eating breakfast when you hear someone knocking on your door.  You open the door to see two Secret Service agents standing on the porch.  A Black Limousine is waiting at the curb with the engine running.  An American flag...

The Great Eighth Day Just when you thought you knew what 'new beginnings' looked like... In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... In the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation, chapter 21 He does it again. This time all the scientists of the earth and even Darwin himself will be witnesses to the creative process in action and on that day the theory of evolution will die an eternal death.  Old things have passed away,  Behold! All Things are made new! Now  I saw a new heaven and a new earth,  for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also, there was no more sea.  Then I, John, saw  the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared  as a bride adorned for her husband.    And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold,  the tabernacle of God  is  with men, and He will dwell with them , and they shall be His people. God, Himself will be ...