The Ultimate Contextualization

The gospel must be culturally contextualized, yet it must "gospelize" the cultural context itself. The incarnation is the ultimate event of ...

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 ...

Practice Makes Perfect

What was Christ doing in the carpenter's shop? Practicing. Though perfect, we read that he learned obedience and grew in wisdom and in favor with ...

Live Joyfully Like Paul

God is no distant deity but a constant reality, a very present help whenever needs occur. So? So live like it. And laugh like it! [The apostle] Paul did. ...

Beyond Happiness

The Bible nowhere speaks about a "happy" Christian; it talks plentifully of joy. Happiness depends on things that happen, and may sometimes ...