Learning to Hear God

Eugene Lowry gave this advice to young preachers:

I try to teach my students how to trick themselves into hearing. You have to be out of control. When ...

A Mile in Their Shoes

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

All But Faith Is Empty

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Prayer for Understanding

Grant me, O Lord, an understanding heart, that I may see into the hearts of thy people, and know their strengths and weaknesses, their hopes and their ...

Shallow Knowledge

The situation today is Lots of knowledge, but little understanding

We Need Better Vision

When we find ourselves deficient in wisdom, it is not because the Word of God has pages missing, but because we have not seen all there is on the pages ...

Insight's Great Worth

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The Faith Vitamin

Faith is the vitamin that makes all we take from the Bible digestible and makes us able to receive it and assimilate it. If we do not have faith, we cannot ...

Ask Someone Who Understands

I would rather be disagreed with by someone who understands me, than to be agreed with by someone who does not understand me.

Parables: Portals to Another World

Parables are tiny lumps of coal squeezed into diamonds, condensed metaphors that catch the rays of something ultimate and glint it at our lives. Parables ...