Guided by the Light

Bob Mumford, in Take Another Look at Guidance, compares discovering God's will with a sea captain's docking procedure:

A certain harbor in Italy ...

God's Word Speaks to Us

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me."

Exhilarating Discipleship

There's nothing more exciting than helping another person become a Christian--except helping that person into an exhilarating experience of discipleship. ...

Maturity Keeps Growing

Maturity is pressing toward the mark; immaturity is complacency and self-satisfaction.

Confusion of Wills

It sounds terribly spiritual to say "God led me", but I am always suspicious of a person who implies that he has a "personal" pipeline ...

We Must Keep Sailing

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with ...

How to Avoid Being Fall Guys

Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Conversion Directs the Eyes

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them direction, which they have not.

When a Simple Majority Won't Do

Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians, to take counsel together, their purpose is not--or should not be--to ascertain what is the mind of the majority ...

Reading God's Signs

At a 1999 conference in Houston, speaker Marti Ensign, a missionary to Africa, told of bringing some African pastors to the United States for a big meeting. ...