Ever since the beginning of time, God has desired to communicate with us through prayer. Jesus said, “seek and you will find, ask and you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened to you.”  He also said that we often don’t receive because we don’t ask. This is not to say that God is some cosmic vending machine who gives us everything we want. But it does indicate that if we align our hearts to

Scripture is God’s Word to us in written form. Pete Greig in his book, How to Hear God, A Simple Guide for Normal People, encourages us to read the Bible with both our heads, intellectually, and our hearts, emotionally. And when we do so, that we should expect to have a personal encounter with the living Lord Jesus Christ. What if we all approached each time we opened the Bible with that sort of expectancy? How

The Apostle Paul told the Colossians that "Jesus is the image of the invisible God."  In other words, what we hear, see, or learn from Jesus in the Gospels, we are actually hearing from God. This week, we learn about Paul’s radical conversion and how he encountered Jesus directly on his way to persecute followers of Jesus called The Way. One way we can authentic whether or not what we are hearing from God is true, is by checking it with wh

Have you ever had someone say something of the sorts, “God told me that…” and then they proceeded to tell you what you should do next in life? How can we be sure they were actually hearing from God and not simply making something up in their heads? This is what we turn our attentions to this Fall as we focus on Pastor and Author Pete Greig’ book, How to Hear God:  A Simple Guide for Normal People. Go

In today’s scripture, Jesus reminds his disciple and us that love is the way of God, not hate.  It was this sort of sacrificial love that left such an indelible imprint upon the pagan world that it attracted non-believers toward the way of Jesus.  And today our world is desperately needing this same kind of witness, especially as we love those with whom we disagree.