Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
One of the features that first drew me into the late 20th century renewal movement was my hunger and thirst to be “touched” by the presence of God. Feeling dry and empty, I began to earnestly seek after an experience of the living presence of Christ wherever I caught...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
2 Samuel 22:20 (NIV) He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because he delighted in me. The picture I see when imagining the spacious place is of a beautiful mountain meadow. It stretches as far as the eye can see with beautiful vistas of spacious...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
There are no enemies, only mortals forced to make critical decisions of allegiance and survival amid the horrors of armed conflict (Cf. the back cover of "Gods and Generals" by Jeff Shaara). The American civil war, which sacrificed more American lives than...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
BRAD: Summary of the Enemy-is-a-Cancer Argument: While we normally regard a military enemy as people to be respected both during and in the aftermath of warfare (as per the Geneva Convention), there are those, such as extremist Islamic terrorists like Al Qaeda or...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
I find myself in the jaws of distress and danger once again. I have left the spacious place with all its benefits and blessings, and have traded it for the precarious jaws of distress. But I hear God calling, wooing me from that dangerous place to the table that is in...