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An audience of one
In 2005, I preached a three-day revival at a big church in Houston. The meetings started on a Friday, and afterward I took any interested church folks out on the streets to learn real ministry. That night we headed down to Westheimer to talk to the runaways and gutterpunks who lived out there. I arranged… Continue reading
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IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE, HOLY TEACHERS
There’s a hard truth most folks never learn because they spend their whole life trying to avoid it: The people who bother you, trigger you, and make your blood boil are often the very teachers sent to sharpen you. We don’t grow because life is easy. We don’t mature because people are kind. We grow… Continue reading
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The last shall be first
The Kingdom runs on an upside-down logic the powerful can’t stand. The ones overlooked, overworked, underpaid — the ones this world treats like background noise — God calls them first in line. The last shall be first. Not someday. Not in some far-off heaven. But whenever justice breaks in, whenever mercy takes the wheel, whenever… Continue reading
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THE TRUTH DOESN’T NEED HYPE — BUT PEOPLE STILL NEED TO HEAR IT
I’ve never been a hype man. I don’t do theatrics. I don’t do smoke machines, countdown clocks, or breathless “you won’t believe what happens next” manipulation. I grew up allergic to all that. Hype is what you use when you don’t have truth. Hype is the sugar-coating you smear on something that can’t stand on… Continue reading
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JAMES 2:5 AND THE DANGEROUS FAVOR OF GOD
“Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom He promised to those who love Him?” — James 2:5 James didn’t whisper this. He thundered it across the early church because the people needed to hear a truth the wealthy hated… Continue reading
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WHEN THE LIGHT THREATENS THE DARK
Some of y’all don’t even realize this yet, so let me say it plain: The reason the darkness keeps swinging at you is because your light won’t shut up. You love people when the world says abandon them. You help when the system says hoard. You forgive when bitterness would be easier. You stand with… Continue reading
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AMERICAN SKIN & THE SOLIDARITY OF GOD
How Being a Traditional Skinhead Shaped My Christianity Recognition — The Roots Run Deeper Than the Rumors Let me say it plain, without apology: I came up in the traditional skinhead world — the real one, the working-class one, the anti-racist one, the boots-on-the-ground brotherhood that predates the hijacking of the look by fascists and… Continue reading
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American Sodom
Luxury and Selfishness Have Defined the American Church Principle Luxury has become our liturgy. Selfishness, our creed. The American church, once the outpost of mercy, has become the mall of self-congratulation. What we call “blessing” would have been called idolatry by any prophet worth his sandals. We have built a nation of sanctuaries lined with… Continue reading
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Forgiveness Isn’t About the Offense
Forgiveness was never about the weight of what someone did. It’s not about scales of right and wrong. It’s not about who deserves what. Forgiveness is about reciprocity. It is the gate you open so mercy can reach you next. Jesus wasn’t poetic when He tied your forgiveness to how you forgive others. He was… Continue reading
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Honey in the Carcass
I became a believer in 1990.The day after I converted, I walked into the streets and never really left them. From 1990 to 2017 I stood on the margins, calling the church to repent.I yelled for reformation and revival in tin shacks with a single bulb swinging overhead.I screamed the same message in mega-churches that… Continue reading
The People’s Revival 