Randy Howard

A Vision of Growth, Discipline, and Transformation Spiritual formation, rightly understood, is not the self-directed improvement of the religious individual, nor is it the accumulation of spiritual experiences or disciplines. Spiritual formation is the lifelong work of God by His Spirit, through His Word, conforming believers into the image of Jesus Christ. Scripture frames this clearly: “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.” (Romans 8:29)...

Lucifer’s Pride, Humanity’s Fall, and the Only Victory Over Self-Exaltation Scripture does not give us a detailed narrative of a literal military campaign in heaven as later imagination has sometimes supplied. Yet the Bible does reveal a real and catastrophic rebellion among created spiritual beings—a rebellion that culminated in judgment, expulsion, and the ongoing enmity between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of God. We must approach this subject with reverence and restraint. We...

The Kingdom of God begins with a bold declaration: God is absolutely sovereign over every sphere of life—spiritual, social, cultural, and political. This foundational truth undergirds the biblical concept of Theocratic Dominion , which affirms that God alone is Creator, King, and rightful ruler of all. Psalm 24:1 sets the tone: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,”  while Revelation 11:15 declares the climactic reality: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our...