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Here is a conviction I've held for a long time: every Christian, at some point in their life, should properly test whether God might be calling them into vocational ministry. You should not assume you know the answer. Actually test the question. What does that look like? An internship. A traineeship. A mentored role in a church. A part-time position taken as a deliberate taster. Some structured way of getting close enough to ministry to find out whether it suits you, and whet

Last week, I preached on God’s guidance of Paul and Silas in Acts 16, and in that same week, I ran an Alpha session on the same topic. So I thought I’d consolidate my thoughts in this article. This is a topic that lots of people ask me about. Maps There's one kind of thinking about guidance that goes something like this: God has a specific, ideal plan for every detail of your life. Your job is to find it. If you read the signs correctly and follow the right path, you will liv

We have our backs to the water. And a tsunami is coming. That was essentially what ABC's Sarah Ferguson said recently on the Politics Now podcast: the Federal Government can see what's about to hit, and the electorate is a bit too relaxed about it. Most of us know the global situation is volatile. But most of us are looking the other way, assuming everything will be fine. The Bible has a name for that assumption. It calls it foolishness. Do not boast about tomorrow, for you d