Bruce Waltke is fed up. Christians “ought to stamp out of our vocabulary the nonbiblical and misleading expression ‘finding God’s will.'” God is not a divine sleight-of-hand artist with an elusive ...

Hearing God's voice, it seems, is no longer just for prophets. A poll recently released by an evangelical Christian research group shows that about three-quarters of Americans say Jesus speaks ...

In the Bible, God spoke directly to Abraham. He spoke directly to Moses. He spoke directly to Job. But to your neighbor down the street? Most people reading the ancient scriptures understand these ...

I'm a teenager in Rogers, Arkansas. I'm 14. Like a lot of kids my age ,I'm just trying to get along with my family, make smart decisions -- and most importantly -- understand how God can help me in my ...

(THE CONVERSATION) — For years, my husband would say after we returned from the church, “I thought the sermon was good.” To that, I would reply, “I didn’t hear the sermon, as usual.” As a person with ...

Your most important leadership role: discerning and obeying God’s voice. Together. A pastor told me that his church had outgrown their facility, so they were asking, "Will we add on to our facility, ...

In the final paragraph of that great barnburner of a book called Orthodoxy — written in 1908 in defense of a Church he hadn’t yet joined — Chesterton tells us that there were two things in the life of ...

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