Almighty God, who can stand before You without feeling some level of smallness, fear, and failing? Have mercy on us in spite of our wrongs, and bring Your forgiveness over our sins, both known and unknown. Save us from false religion, from the bustling of activity that has lost its center in You and fails …
Gustave Doré, The Prophet Amos
How Do We Hear from God today?
Through the past two blog posts , I have held up a vision of the God who speaks in various ways and we as His people hearing from Him. That is the vision I want to put in front of us. The prophets heard from God, and their hearing is unique from ours as authoritative …
What Does It Mean to ‘Hear God’?
Yesterday, I began a series of posts about hearing God with the question, "Does God Speak Today." Today, I want to continue that theme by asking a second, but related question. If God speaks, how does He speak? And what does it mean to “hear God”? The various ways God speaks[1] Dallas Willard outlines six …
Does God Still Speak Today?
Working through a preaching series on the minor prophets, again and again I come across a phrase, “The word of the Lord that came to…” That phrase appears more than twenty times in the minor prophets (at least 10 of those are in Zechariah alone!): “The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son …
Matthew Erickson 