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. Greig's main readership is likely to be young adults in the Charismatic Evangelical wing of the Church. For more information on the people and ideas in the episode, see the links at the bottom of this post.

Nothing he says in any other way, or in any other context will ever override, undermine or contradict what he has said in the scriptures. It’s worth remembering how precious and rare the Bible was for many centuries so that we can be truly grateful for Bible Gateway that makes it so easily accessible in so many different versions and languages. The four main steps of lectio divina, the author made highly popular in ‘ How to Pray’, by using the simple acronym, P. There are resources to explore at the end of every chapter, discussion/reflection points, and over fourteen pages of citations in the back. Centering the Bible story of a couple encountering Jesus on the Emmaus Road without realizing it’s him (Luke 24), this book illustrates the struggle to recognize God in our own lives.Looking back now, I think this is because I had unwittingly developed three fundamental problems with the very notion of God speaking to me, either supernaturally or in any consistently conversational way. The penultimate chapter considers God speaking to his children, not just in religious contexts (including such means as Communion, Solitude and Sabbath), but in the whole of life – not least, Community, Creation and Culture. Hear the astonishing stories of men and women who have encountered Jesus through this ancient yet astoundingly relevant spiritual habit. Centred on the story of the disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus, Pete uses his characteristic accessible and practical style to unpack the many ways that God speaks to us today. It's not for the people on the stage or the spiritual elite, it's for normal people following Christ.

Just stop and think about the fact that, if you believe that he made the universe with a few words, what might happen if you hear him say something to you? 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. And it’s crazy when you think that in Jesus’ time he could be walking through your town, like being Jesus Christ, like speaking things that no one had ever heard, doing miracles. The book comes in two parts: Part 1; vox eterna; Hearing God through God’s Word and Part 2: vox interna; Hearing God through God’s whisper. In 1 Corinthians 12 the apostle Paul lists various expressions of prophecy including words of knowledge (in which God shows us things about other people that we had no other way of knowing), words of wisdom (in which God gives us great insight), etc.This is not helped by the fact that a disproportionate amount of the material on listening to God has been written by introverts (representing approximately 35 per cent of the population), who understandably advocate their own preference for quietness, stillness and solitude. He weaves together the evangelical emphasis upon hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God’s still, small voice within. 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.