The Kings Of Eden

I was recently having a discussion with someone about raising the dead, and the conversation turned to whether we should raise animals from the dead or not.  He posited that the resurrections we see in the Bible are all of humans being raised from the dead, and so in order to keep with Divine Order we would need to stick within that boundary.  Furthermore, since we have been given animals to eat…

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Back in January of 2024 I was at one Fiorella Giordano’s second GenNow conference and had the opportunity to hear Justin Paul Abraham share with a small group of us a method he uses to help people step into spiritual encounters and to engage with the Cloud of Witnesses.  The method itself is fairly simple.  You envision a door—and that door can look however want it to.  It can be floating in…

I was at church a few weeks ago when a friend of mine and I were discussing me selling an enclosed trailer I own.  I mentioned that once I sell that trailer I won’t need to keep the Dodge Ram 2500 that I currently drive, and I can look at getting a newer/different vehicle.  You see, the reason I initially bought this particular truck was *so* it could tow that trailer a number of years back…

A few weeks before I moved from Austin, Tx to the New Philadelphia area of Ohio earlier this year, I somehow got into what was a confusing conversation for me with one of the nursing assistants in my hospital system.  It was confusing for me largely because these days I am very far removed from the mainstream heaven-when-you-die rapture belief.  I simply forget sometimes that some people are so…

A friend once wrote me a message and asked me the following question:  “Do you have any suggestions for how someone way too empathetic can work with and love whoever they’re helping without being swallowed up by the painful stuff being addressed?  Or does that indicate some brokenness in itself?” I thought this was a really great question, and the answer is both extremely simple and highly…

I had a dream on January 18th of this year that I want to share with you, as well as the interpretation and the message it carries for all of us.  The dream itself was pretty short.  I was at my old property and standing at the fence talking to the neighbor.  In real life this neighbor doesn’t exist, but in the dream she was a woman who had a very young child and she needed food for the kid.  For…

I was talking to a dear friend the other day about grief, and she made an analogy I had never heard before.  She said that grief is a bit like a ball inside a box.  The ball never goes away, but as the box grows over time, the relative space that it takes up is lessened so the grief becomes less intense and/or less severe.  And while it becomes less intense, it never goes away because no matter…

I’m not typically a “heresy hunter” and that’s not even my goal with this article either, but I have observed with increasing prevalence that Kabbalah is a growing thing in “mystical” Christian circles, whether those that are more Charismatic leaning, those focused on “Getting back to Jewish roots”, or those who are trying to take a more merge-science-and-spirituality approach with energy and…

The Charismatic denominations are a funny place, and if you listen to what every teacher or preacher says about how to receive from God, how to operate in the gifts of the spirit, whether to seek after God’s face or his hand, how to receive answered prayer or see miracles, or anything similar, you are bound to get spiritual whiplash, because every time you turn around someone is going to be…

One of the things I learned early on in my journey into the charismatic and things involving the power of the Holy Spirit was that so much of it is meant to be done on a daily basis as we go throughout life.  I remember hearing Bill Johnsons preach once and he was explaining how a visitor came to Bethel church and asked to go out with their “mall ministry.”  Bill was confused and said something…

My very good friend Kyle died on June 19, 2021 in a motorcycle accident. The entire situation was (and is) heartbreaking, and I did pray for resurrection. At the time of writing this he hasn’t returned back to life yet, but my job is to pray, not to decide the timing of things, so pray is what I do and I let God work out the rest of the details. I have said before that in almost every situation…

A number of years ago I listened to a conference recording from an event at Seattle Revival Center in which one of the speakers essentially prayed for everyone to become disconnected from the energy matrix of our universe.  At first, this prayer was confusing as I didn’t understand its purpose.  However, as I pondered it further, things became clearer.  It seems strange to think that we would…

For anyone who has followed The Kings of Eden for any length of time, you will know that I tend to write a good bit about personal transformation—inner healing, deliverance, mind renewal, and doing these things with fragmented parts of the soul. I do this because I believe it is a vital part of the life of any follower of Jesus, and that if we want to truly run the race marked out for us as…

I was at a home group meeting this past weekend with friends and one of the guys mentioned something about being glad he was out of ministry and the hierarchical system of religion, and how even just the word “ministry” brings up negative feelings. I think this is honestly an increasingly common thing that is happening in the Body of Christ as people are leaving denominational churches in droves.…

This past week it got pretty cold in Texas. Now, to be fair, that is according to Texas standards, not those of anywhere that gets regular winter chill. Nevertheless, after living in Texas for four years, I am more maladapted to the cold then ever. I did, however, keep my winter gear from living up north, so while I may feel a little cold, I’m ultimately just fine. Well, this was the first day…

I was out running errands last week with Bruce my perpetual wingman (He’s my yellow lab/some-kind-of-shepherd dog that God gave me this past year—I’ll write about him sometime soon) which caused me to drive an hour across Austin to pick up some weight plates for weightlifting.  I started getting back into more intentional exercise just under two years ago, mainly running and calisthenic workouts,…