Discerning God’s Calling for Your Life
This week, John Bailey and Mark Renfroe talk through what it means to have a calling and offer practical advice for living out God’s will for your life.
Discerning the Voice of God
This week, John Bailey and Mark Renfroe talk about studying Scripture, listening to the Holy Spirit and choosing to obey God when you cannot see what lies ahead.
A Hope that Can Endure
Hope, like the word ‘love’, gets used in many different ways, so how do we understand what biblical hope is?
“A fellow from the cannery came running down to the wharf shouting that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor,” Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston wrote. “Mama yelled at him, ‘What is Pearl Harbor?’”
What Is Your Destiny?
Divine Purpose and Definition
John Piper wrote about what he considered to be one of the most damning, disruptive and culture-changing sentences in the history of the Supreme Court. This one little sentence came from Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in 1992, and he said, “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning of the universe, and of the mystery of life.”
For us to uphold that ideology, God must be excluded from the conversation.
Strength in Raging Rivers of Trouble
Many believers don’t want to believe that they will suffer hardship or know pain, but scripture has a very different word for us.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Do You Want to Know God's Will?
When we look at the Christian landscape today, we see many churches that are doing great things for God — people are finding Christ and being baptized, prayer meetings are bringing down God’s blessings, and a spirit of love is pervading the atmosphere. The Spirit of Christ is in those churches, and excitement is in the air.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Embracing God’s Glorious Will
Every true follower of Jesus Christ says he wants to do the will of God, yet most Christians think of God’s will as something that is imposed on them — something distasteful and difficult that they are forced to do. They picture God demanding that they give in to a hard set of rules and conditions: “Do it my way or you’re on your own!” How very wrong they are.