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Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Dallas Willard

Being close to God means communicating with him--telling him what is on our hearts in prayer and hearing, and understanding what he is saying to us. But how do we hear God's voice? How can we be sure that what we think we hear is not our own subconscious? What role does the Bible play? What if what God says to us is not clear?

The key, says bestselling author Dallas Willard, is to focus not so much on individual actions and decisions as on building our personal relationship with our Creator. In this beloved classic, which now includes a foreword by James Bryan Smith, you'll gain rich spiritual insight into how we can hear God's voice clearly and develop an intimate partnership with him in the work of his kingdom.

Book Details

  • Publisher: IVP
  • Publish Date: Dec 7th, 2021
  • Pages: 312
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.43in - 5.51in - 0.87in - 0.80lb
  • EAN: 9780830848515
  • Categories: Christian Living - Spiritual GrowthChristian Theology - GeneralSpiritual

About the Author

Willard, Dallas: -

Dallas Willard is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is the author of such books as The Divine Conspiracy, Renovation of the Heart and Hearing God.

Smith, James Bryan: -

James Bryan Smith is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. He is a founding board member of RENOVARÉ and frequently speaks at RENOVARÉ conferences. Jim is also the author of A Spiritual Formation Workbook, Devotional Classics (with Richard Foster), Embracing the Love of God, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, which hit the New York Times bestseller list, and Room of Marvels.

Praise for this book

"Hearing God is still the gold standard in learning to recognize God's voice in our everyday lives. It offers wise, thoughtful and grounded guidelines for discernment, while acknowledging that God still speaks to each of us today. Over the decades, I have not recommended another book on hearing God more."

--James Choung, author of Real Life: A Christianity Worth Living Out

"I have loved this book since it was first published under its original title, In Search of Guidance (my old, marked-up copy is still a cherished possession), and then I fell in love with it again when it was brought out under its current title. There is no one more sane, more well-reasoned, more deeply spiritual and biblically grounded than Dallas Willard in his careful, nuanced treatment of how we can develop an intimate, conversational relationship with God--one that actually includes hearing from God for ourselves. Hearing God is truly a classic that stands tall in the crowded field of discernment literature!"

--Ruth Haley Barton, founder of the Transforming Center and author of Invitation to Solitude and Silence