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PRAYING WITH EXPECTATIONS
Throughout the quarantine, I’ve been thinking a lot about prayer and keep remembering one night in Baja, Mexico. It was my friend’s first mission trip and we were enjoying the warm breeze of the beach on our hotel balcony. We were simply unwinding from a long day of...
Coronavirus Close to Home
The impact of the coronavirus struck home for me at the end of February when my sister-in-law Charlene found out she had contracted COVID-19. She is a New Zealander in her 50s, temporarily teaching in an international school in Indonesia. Charlene was already under...
COVID- 19 Statement by Every Nation NYC
By Dr. Ugo Elder, Every Nation Church, New York As God’s scripture reminds us in 2 Timothy 1 - our trustworthy, omnipotent, and loving Father has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. These and many other promises from the Lord...
Lent Devotional 1
Genesis 3:1-7, 21 (ESV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the...
Cleansing Stream Will Not Solve All Your Problems
As someone who has been part of Cleansing Stream both as a participant and as a leader, I can tell you from both sides of the fence that taking Cleansing Stream will not solve all of your problems; however, it will give you the tools to be victorious in the everyday...
How Do You Define Church?
A cruel experiment was supposedly done in the 13th century by King Frederick II of Sicily. In his fascination to learn the original language spoken by Adam and Eve, he gave a group of babies to the care of nurses. The nurses were given very strict instructions: they...
Getting the Most Out of Your Fast
Fasting is a genuine joy of mine. Yes, I’m aware that’s an odd statement, but it’s true! Fasting is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to position ourselves to receive from God. To clarify, in no way does fasting earn us any right to receive - that was done...
Reaching the Unreached with the Gospel
Some thoughts from Pastor Ron Lewis after a recent trip to the Middle East. I recently returned from a trip to Jordan with Jordan Lewis Missions (JLM). Jordan borders Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, and currently is home to over 750,000 refugees. To put this in...
A New Year and a New Season
There's something so wonderful about the feeling of NEW. Few things on Earth beat a pair of new socks, that new car smell, a new haircut, or new Play Doh (for the parents and children out there). Right now, I'm enjoying that “new year feeling". Leaving behind the...
Wait and See
I was raised in a different kind of family. I am African-American, as are my mother and father. But I was raised by my stepfather, who is Caucasian. I believe that having a white stepfather had a great influence on how I grew up. As a family, we traveled the United...