Month: December 2021
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Communicating With God
We’ve been talking about how God communicates with humankind in the context of Jesus’s promise to send prophets, teachers, and sages to keep us informed. Last week, we talked about prayer, that common universal experience of contact with God; something as old as mankind itself, found in every age, amongst all people. It’s remarkable then,…
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Expectations of Prayer
We’ve been talking about prophets, teachers, and sages, and how God communicates with humankind. We saw last week that about 25% of Americans in a Gallup poll claimed to have had a direct and certain message from God—either his voice that they’ve heard, or the message was manifested in a dream or in a vision….
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The Frustrations of Talking with God
In September of 1963, I was sitting in a chapel in the foothills of the Himalayas in a town called Mussoorie, at a school called Vincent Hill School. It was Week of Prayer. Those of you who haven’t gone to an Adventist school probably don’t know about a week of prayer, but every Adventist school…
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Conversations with God?
Has God ever talked to you? Have you ever heard God’s voice? Today we’re talking about how God communicates with Humankind. Have you ever ever had a dream from God? Were you ever carried away in a vision? Does God still communicate with Wo/Man directly these days? Jesus said: My sheep listen to My voice,…