Bad news is lurking in every corner. Always has been. Always will. For you. For me. For everyone. Especially, it seems, in the 21st Century’s technology-driven and media-fueled circus.      One of the biggest barriers to listening for God’s voice is our fear of hearing “BAD NEWS.”    My fight to win the bad-news battle starts with a commitment to LISTEN for God through both...

I had a very clear lapse of judgment yesterday. It all started when my attention was captured by a trio of rambunctious boys playing in the cul-de-sac. The next thing I remember is grabbing a unicycle propped up in a lonely corner of my garage and wheeling it to the street. For a brief beat or two, I forgot about my age (and stiff back) and started off on my one-wheel ride. That immediately activated...

This month’s exploration into LISTENING for God’s voice has taken us through several ways to improve our ability to hear him: 1) Have the DESIRE to hear God; 2) Make sure to eliminate the DISTRACTIONS that make it impossible to listen, let alone hear, God speak; and 3) Remember that if we are not hearing God, it’s ON US because God is NEVER silent. Today I woke up thinking about the BENEFITS of listening...

The 2916-year-old tree towered hundreds of feet into the heavens with a circumference of an astonishing 71 feet. I stood under it mesmerized and listening to the still-air, nothingness it called home. All I could think about was how quiet the scene was right then at that moment, save the soft wind whistling through the leviathan’s sturdy frame. How peaceful it made me feel on this picture-perfect...

Christians often mistake their own thoughts for the voice of God. And that can be very dangerous. If the thought is not from our born-again Spirit–which is one with God’s Spirit—it is from: 1) Our carnal mind; or 2) Satan’s darkness.    God communicates with his children by running thoughts across our spirit’s channel.    “But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him...

I take my SPIRITUAL PULSE on a regular basis to make sure I am fully connected to God and living a Christ-like life for him and his Kingdom. Integral to that process is checking on how well I’m listening for God’s voice. I do that by regularly asking myself piercingly tough questions (below) about me being “interruptible.” WHY? Because failure to conduct this kind of introspective examination can...

We know that God is constantly talking to his children and the only question is if we are LISTENING. That makes LISTENING for God’s voice a spiritual IMPERATIVE that we must do. In fact, LISTENING for God is a sign of spiritual maturity. But it’s very DIFFICULT to do with all of life’s distractions and IMPOSSIBLE to pull off if we are not willing to OBEY what he says. That was ME early in my faith...

My heart is troubled. My soul is hopeless. My mind is afraid.    Those are the most common feelings we hear about from our global tribe of online followers. They are feelings that may be coming from a damaged relationship; personal hang-up, habit or hurt; a health scare; or financial crisis…to name a microscopic few from the seemingly endless list.    Many of these Christians...

“Why does it seem that I’m in touch with God and hearing from him one day and then nothing comes in on another day and for many days after that?”    That’s just one of many very similar comments from our global online tribe on hearing God speak into and guide their faith walk. It’s a frustration that does not surprise me because I have thought the very same thing many hundreds of times....

If you are a Christian, God is trying to tell YOU something RIGHT NOW. And that will be the case tomorrow. And the next day. And it will be true every day…forever. The question is not IF God wants to have a conversation with his children. THE QUESTION IS WILL WE BE LISTENING.    Hearing the voice of God is one of the most important subjects for all believers committed to intimacy with Christ...