Some Jeep owners have a playful upside down sign on their windshield. "If you can read this, roll me over." That sign always makes me chuckle. But there is another upside down sign from centuries ago that has a much darker meaning. Low down in the Elbe River in the Czech Republic, near the town of Decin, is a river stone engraved in upside down writing-- "Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine." (When you see me, then weep.) Famine was coming.

Do you know what storm surge is? We have a saying here in the hurricane zone. "Hide from wind, run from water." When a hurricane comes ashore, the strong offshore winds pile up the water up ahead of the storm. This is what kills most people in hurricanes-- storm surge.

As I was praying, I saw hands washing a green pot. All the nasty dried food inside was being cleaned out...

The other morning, God showed me a big heaping bowl of Kasha, with a spoon in it... (It tastes like Provision.)

Who knows what a Stylite is? Anybody? (I'll bet John Wollwerth knows.) The Stylites took the asceticism to its logical conclusion, choosing to live their lives perched on columns. Yes, really! In the Byzantine Empire in the third and fourth centuries, some of the devout read in their Bibles that Jesus sometimes left the crowds to get away and pray, and decided to pursue their own holiness by leaving society. They became hermits, dedicated to living in solitude. Or, they bande

After this preacher departed another was invited to take his place in our pulpit, We saw a man who came with a message, but then stood by quietly and just waited. God was moving, and there was weeping around the auditorium, as was often the case in revivals back through history. Broken people, weeping in God's presence. He preached eventually, and God used him. But I think the biggest work of God in the service was before he even spoke. In the waiting. I suck at waiting, but