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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Be still and know that I am God!” (Psalm 46:11). Growing up Catholic nobody taught me to listen to God. Parents and teachers taught me to talk to God. They said prayer was praising God, telling him ...

(THE CONVERSATION) — 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 ...

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 ...

Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with rabbis tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read ...

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 ...

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 ...