The Enabler: Carl’s Ministry Blog

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds […]

As I work on my The Illusion book, I came to a chapter on Place, entitled “The Illusion of the Exile”. Most of us live as Exiles, lost to Place. My own city of Portland was started by exiles looking for that lost Garden. Paul Tournier makes an incredible statement in his book […]

We have opened up a new catetgory on the main menu on prayer. Lots of good stuff there. The city-reaching stuff is still there under the church. Enjoy! Within the next few days, we’ll add more to the prayer resources.

I like to talk about change, and during the next few months you will see some changes here I think you’ll like. Here are some of these you can expect to see:

Main menu changes to include The Journey, Prayer, Healing…
Better usability, such as interactive buttons.
The addition of professional graphics
The updating of resources
Additional cool content from […]

On December 4 I had the privilege of sitting in a conference with Tom White and George Otis as they shared about their perception of what God is doing today. The place where we met was a Rodeway Inn, and functions to the world as a part of that larger chain. In reality, it’s a […]

If you’ve been following our ramblings here and our issues blog, you will notice that Carl accurately predicted the election would give the House and Senate to the Democrats. It wasn’t so much that the Democrats won or the Republicans lost - and by a landslide - it’s just that Middle America won. We were […]

Isaiah made an interesting prophecy (Is. 49:1-3 NKJV)
“Listen, O coastlands, to Me,
And take heed, you peoples from afar!
The LORD has called Me from the womb;
From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.
And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword;
In the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me,
And […]

We generally assume this coming of the Kingdom has to do with something that happens in the future. But what if we look for places where it has already happened? Some years ago now George Otis, Jr. started looking for cities where the Kingdom has come. He (the last time I talked with him) […]

Part II: The Strategy
Jesus told many stories (parables) about the Kingdom and the coming of the Kingdom. A really good devotional is to do a search in a concordance on Kingdom of Heaven in the Gospels and then read all the passages that are returned.
The strategy of seeing this Kingdom today involves two components: one […]

Part 1: The Purpose
What is life all about, anyway? What is God doing, and what are we supposed to be doing?
Jesus made it clear that the purpose of life was the coming of God’s Kingdom on earth as it already was in heaven. In the Model Prayer Jesus told us to pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed […]