ON A SUNDAY evening in Palo Alto, Calif., around 50 members of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of the Peninsula gathered in a rented room above a popular coffee shop. Before the occasion got under ...

Isn’t there a sense of liberation when we finally know what we want to do with our life? This is one of the feelings that a person experiences at a heart-felt level, as well as others, such as joy, ...

God is always speaking to us. One reason we worry, feel fear and experience disjointedness and confusion is that we don’t realize that the answers to our questions and the balm for our suffering are ...

I consider myself a Christian, but for me, there has been no “outside voice” and no audible foreign personality directly guiding me from one path to another. It has merely been me, myself and I either ...

As a believer in Christ, do you have a passionate urgency to hear and obey God’s Word? You may not know this, but the book of Deuteronomy actually consists of three sermons that Moses preached to the ...

It was 9 p.m. I had been sitting at my computer, staring at a blank screen, for nearly 30 minutes. I had to write, but nothing came to mind. “God, please give me something to say.” It was Saturday, ...

Does this ever happen to anyone else? I’m blowing my hair dry, trying to get my damp locks under key for the day … and then, wouldn’t you know! There goes my cellphone with its unmistakable ringtone.

It's been posited that God speaks to us through circumstances: blocked pathways, dreams, feelings, inspirations, music, nature, symbols, tender mercies, thoughts and visions. Some say he communicates ...

Does God still speak to people today? People in the Christian tradition believe that God spoke to people long ago and gave them a special message. We call this message to us the Bible. God’s word to ...

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 ...