How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

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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 . How to Hear God is perfect for individuals who want to explore the different ways of learning to hear God’s voice, communities who want to grow together, and anyone who is looking for an easy-to-understand guide to this often-confusing area of faith. The following is my slanted summary (it inevitably reflects my take on it) of the first chapter, Hearing God’s Word in Jesus. 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.

Community Church is a trading name of Rivertree Trust a company limited by guarantee and registered charity. It is about the ‘covert Christ’ drawing near and taking you on ‘a slow journey of deep discovery that will change your life’ (p. Using the story of Jesus encountering two discouraged disciples on the Emmaus Road, Greig shows how God speaks in mealtimes, in nature, through his word in guided meditation, and good counsel from friends. Learning to hear God’s voice – his word and his whisper – is the single most important thing you will ever do. 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.The current book study is on Pete Greig’s new book, How to Hear God, and I recommend that you get hold of your own copy – you can purchase it here. He also launched The Prayer Course and his really helpful and insightful books on prayer, which really go together with this new book on hearing God, include How To Pray and God on Mute. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

He heads up Emmaus Rd in Guildford with his wife Sammy, serves as Vice-President for the NGO Tearfund and was part of the senior leadership team at HTB in London for seven years.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. The most important prayer of the Old Testament – the ‘Shema’ means ‘hear’ or ‘listen’ – begins with hearing God (Deut. It really encourages the reader to get stuck in and experiment with ways to open up to God and notice him in your everyday life. 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.

Greig's main readership is likely to be young adults in the Charismatic Evangelical wing of the Church. 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.Pete Grieg has done a masterful job of breaking down the areas of hearing the voice of the Lord and putting our faith into practice. They split their time between a barge on the River Wey near Guildford, England, and a cliff top retreat on the Isle of Wight where they host and mentor leaders from around the world. The follow up to Pete Greig’s How To Pray is a practical and encouraging guide to the other side of the prayer conversation: how to hear what God might be saying in response to the prayers we pray. Join Pete for 5 sessions as he explores 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.

I loved the fact it was interlaced with inspirational stories that really help to build your faith in a God who speaks today and cares about our lives even before we are born. 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. Pete Greig is the Senior Pastor of Emmaus Rd church, and the bewildered founder of 24-7 Prayer, an international, inter-denominational movement of prayer, mission and justice operating in more than 100 countries. This book is sweet and salty--a perfect spiritual snack of deep spiritual truths with real-life wisdom and brevity. Nothing can replace reading it for yourself, but hopefully this can give you a taster and encourage you to read it.The first section of the book explores God’s Word, exploring the ways that the Bible can speak to us, and the second half focuses on God’s Whisper, what God really sounds like today. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Pete never fails to make my soul tremble with the good news of God's presence and guidance and invitation to pray.