by Mike Rakes | Jun 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Postmodernism, Pluralism, and Pneumiotics: Three major influences on the Spirit-empowered church Dr. Mike Rakes Abstract The impact of culture on the local church in America has been an on-going topic of conversation among those in church leadership positions for...
by Mike Rakes | May 16, 2020 | Spirituality
Van Gogh’s depiction of exhausted peasant couple. Poem inspired by Jason Upton music. There was a season not that long ago, When joy rained down and laughter flowed; A fullness and feasts of fellowship and fun, Rare does one know soon that harvest...
by Mike Rakes | May 16, 2020 | Spirituality
Now the lone tree is bare standing on the frozen earth, There is no song bird there and nothing to give birth, No rabbit seen only bare tree and fields, silent while waiting on eternity to rise. Whitney your life is still teaching us – even during this dark...
by Mike Rakes | Dec 21, 2018 | Spirituality, Theology
When it comes to a Visitation we can see that Jesus whole life was a Visitation for us. Christ did not arrive unannounced (because he was The Promise) but he came uninvited, and from the start, no one could find room for him at all. There was no room for Christ in the...
