How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

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Pete is such a leader, and the truth contained in this book answers one of the most common questions: How do you hear God? We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It is also a kind of model for the Christian life, which is really all about walking with Jesus along the way. I discovered, rather late in my walk with God, tools like The Examen and Lectio Divina, developed by early church fathers for growing in our faith.

Centred on the story of the disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus, Pete uses his characteristic accessible and practical style to unpack the many ways that God speaks to us today.The most important prayer of the Old Testament – the ‘Shema’ means ‘hear’ or ‘listen’ – begins with hearing God (Deut. Pete is an Ambassador for the NGO Tearfund, a visiting lecturer for St Mellitus Theological College and one of the founding conveners of the Wildfires festival. This is a book to make your faith come alive by turning your ordinary, everyday prayers into a real, conversational relationship with the God who is speaking, more than you know. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Nothing can replace reading it for yourself, but hopefully this can give you a taster and encourage you to read it.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He weaves together the evangelical emphasis upon hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God's 'still, small voice' within. This book is sweet and salty--a perfect spiritual snack of deep spiritual truths with real-life wisdom and brevity.Chapter 1 – Hearing God’s Word in Jesus: We have been created for a conversational relationship with Jesus and therefore hearing God is vital. He weaves together the evangelical emphasis upon hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God’s “still, small voice” within. Exploring the story of Christ's playful, poignant conversation on the road to Emmaus, Pete draws deeply from the insights of a wide range of Christian traditions.

Community Church is a trading name of Rivertree Trust a company limited by guarantee and registered charity. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Having addressed God's silence in God on Mute, and then How to Pray in his previous bestseller , Pete Greig is back to bring wisdom and guidance to one of the most pressing and perplexing aspects of universal Christian experience - How to Hear God . This book will do a solid job helping them listen for the voice of God in everyday life, by way of a broad range of spiritual traditions, while remaining alert to the loopier and more manipulative claims of some would-be channellers of the Almighty. Rooted in Scripture and filled with the experiences of many who have gone before us, this book shows that God really does speak to us and gives us some clear paths to hear him when he does. Nothing could possibly matter more than learning to discern the authentic voice of God, but few things in life are more susceptible to delusion, deception, and downright abuse.