An important gift for the protection of the church is that of discernment. We live in a day and age when this gift is more important than ever. All Christians should judge carefully what they hear and read and “not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God” […]

Like its Hebrew equivalent (naba), the Greek verb behind prophecy (propheteuw) simply means, “to speak forth, or to proclaim.” The connotation of prediction was added sometime in the middle ages, and although many of the prophets of old made predictions, that was not their basic ministry. God revealed a great deal of His word through […]

God often leads us, helps, us or warns us by working through other Christians, through ordinary circumstances or through natural laws. but a miracle is an act of God that is contrary to the ordinary working and laws of nature, an act that only He could accomplish by overruling nature an that could not otherwise […]