Tag: Hearing

  • Dan

    Can you hear?

    I reflect back to Dallas Willard’s newest work, The Scandal of the Kingdom. Dallas worked to get to the heart of why Jesus used parables. The long and the short of it is this: God’s people have ears… but don’t listen. They have eyes… but refuse to see. We have our presuppositions of what the Kingdom is about and just…

  • Dan

    By faith

    Coming through Hebrews 11 and as we turn into the main point of Hebrews 12, I can hear the author of Hebrews fairly shouting: “Quit being so lazy in your faith!”

  • Dan

    Simeon and Anna — Waiting on God

    When I was in college one of my professors told of a missions teaching trip he had made to India. Near where he was staying were several small caves where those following Hinduism would go for silence and prayer. He decided to hike into that area one day and out of curiosity found a cave and began to make his…

  • Dan

    Hearing

    Sometimes we need to hear the leading of the Spirit in very “plain” things. I know I do. I have an old beater car. I feel like I’m back in high school and praying for miracles every day. Miracles like, “Please start. Please drive. Please stop.” My prayer life is improved immensely. Just the past few days I had one…