I consider myself a Christian, but for me, there has been no “outside voice” and no audible foreign personality directly guiding me from one path to another. It has merely been me, myself and I either ...

When the books of the Bible are read in the context of worship, they become the scripture of the church. Just as the greeting turns an assembly into a church, so the proclamation of Old and New ...

Bruce Waltke is fed up. Christians “ought to stamp out of our vocabulary the nonbiblical and misleading expression ‘finding God’s will.'” God is not a divine sleight-of-hand artist with an elusive ...

It won’t come as a big surprise for readers to learn that as we age our range of hearing grows smaller. That’s why the hearing aid industry grosses over $14.5 billion a year. The average person can ...

Nathan Finochio, a California-based Hillsong teaching pastor, believes "anybody" can hear from God. According to The Barna Group, an evangelical polling firm, three-quarters of Americans have said ...

For years, my husband would say after we returned from the church, “I thought the sermon was good.” To that, I would reply, “I didn’t hear the sermon, as usual.” As a person with a severe to profound ...

We discover what it means to be one in Christ Jesus as we confront the most decisive moment of God's silence - the crucifixion. That is when we learn to listen to the sheer silence of our God. "There ...

Watching the sunrise over Lake Tahoe is one of my great summer pleasures. I usually awake before my family and, in solitude, watch as the contours of the lake begin to take shape in the morning light.

For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page, which includes Epperly's current Living by the Word column as well as past magazine and blog content. For ...

In the final paragraph of that great barnburner of a book called Orthodoxy — written in 1908 in defense of a Church he hadn’t yet joined — Chesterton tells us that there were two things in the life of ...