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 ...

Prepare for the Unexpected

We all tend to prescribe the answers to our prayers. We think that God can come in only one way. But Scripture teaches us that God sometimes answers our ...

Work of an Angel

The angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence towards us; they regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, ...

Staring at the Closed Door

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ...

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 ...

Selfish Peace

Several years ago I knew a girl who had signed a contract to teach. In August she received another offer from a school closer to where she wanted to live. ...

A Light Unto My Path

As I came home from church one evening, I was struggling to recognize God's guidance for my life. Suddenly, I drove into dense fog and could see nothing. ...

Longing for the Closed Door

When one door closes, another one opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened ...

The Myth of the Lighthouse

Believed by many to be truth, this mythical story about the lighthouse makes a great point: The captain of the ship looked into the dark night and saw ...

Lincoln's Prayer for Wisdom

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient ...