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  • Humpty Dumpty

    August 24th, 200912:41 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”  Jeremiah 2:13 Lately, I’ve been attending a Bible reading group at a church that I would have never thought I would visit.  Their requests for disciples...

  • Mercy and Revival

    August 20th, 200901:19 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy."   (Prov. 20:28) If there is any one message that can be deemed the most important of all, it is the message of mercy.  The Apostle Paul wrote that charity is even more important than faith and hope, the two pillars that our salvation rest upon.  It is no...

  • Drunkeness

    August 17th, 200908:59 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    "Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? Are they restrained? ... O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine in...

  • Send Me

    August 05th, 200912:27 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    We’re heading home tonight. I’m sitting here at my hotel in Nairobi, looking out the window and wondering if I will ever be back again. I go through this almost every time. It’s a bittersweet feeling leaving this place. I am worn out and spent after dozens of services in a score of little churches throughout Kenya, but exhilar...

  • Drought amongst the Maasai

    August 01st, 200903:04 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    It's been three years since it has rained in Namanga, and it is so dry that the air is full of dust.  We are in the south of Kenya with the Masaai, a tribe of strange dress and stranger customs.  They are known for the way they mutilate their ear lobes and for their fearlessness in fighting lions.  They are also very clannish, and ...

  • She Shall Be Saved in Childbearing

    August 01st, 200901:58 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    Revival is coming to Kenya.  It isn't just something that's in the air; it's in their hearts. I listened to a lady from the U.S. as she told me how great the praise and worship services were in Kenya.  It's not the praise and worship that gets me excited -- it's the altar calls. In church after church, I have presented a message of re...

  • Mwala

    August 01st, 200901:39 PM ET
    By Dale Garris
    It's Day One of my 7th trip to Kenya.  Just as each person you meet has a different personality, so does each trip I make here.  Unlike other trips to Africa, I have not had a lot of excitement or drive this time.  I actually wondered if I was going flat like a Coke that has been left out too long - still tastes like Coke, but hav...
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