Blow Up, Dry Up, or Grow Up

If you have the Spirit without the Word, you blow up. If you have the Word without the Spirit, you dry up. If you have both the Word and the Spirit, you ...

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 ...

You Can't Trust Yourself

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has fooled me lots of times.

Technology: Not So "User Friendly"

The first great communications revolution followed the invention of the printing press. The first thing they printed was the Bible. The second communications ...

No Common Voice

I can just come to imagine for myself that a man of more or less my own biological and social composition could have written Hamlet or Lear and gone home ...

Composer and Score

An awe for the composer, God, is necessary before a pastor can fully understand his score, the Bible.

God's Perfect Penmanship

While sitting next to my first grade daughter during our morning worship service one Sunday, I noticed her look down at my open Bible. In a low whisper, ...

Mysteries of the Bible

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could ...

Spiritual Food Comes First

A missionary in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, reports that recently an African pastor passed through on his way home to Chad, where civil war was raging.

"What ...

Too Well-Versed?

Before the lunch hour rush at the restaurant where I waitress, I recited a memory verse to myself--(Galatians 2:20), "I have been crucified with ...