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May 17, 2022 · Whatever and whoever God is, they are beyond our comprehension. So when we talk about God, then, we should be mindful both of its capacity to build worlds and speak meaningfully to its context; but also that our images and words can never exhaust the infinite mystery of God.
- How Is It Possible to Talk to God?
- An Example of Talking to God
- How Can We Listen to God?
How is prayer possible? We are talking to Almighty God, and in regular society, talking to even one’s elected representative is difficult to arrange. “Prayer is possible because Jesus Christ has removed the barrier between us and God — a barrier caused by our sins” (Ibid.). When we believe in Christ for salvation, God permits us to talk to him at a...
God will honor prayer, which is clear and articulate; unsophisticated and brief; and he will also hear and respond to our wordless desperation. “We do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words” (Romans 8:26). There is no single way to pray, but Christ has provided an example fo...
Imagine a friend who likes to talk, so much that you hardly ever get a chance to respond to what he or she is saying. The temptation is to avoid this person; after all, does this so-called friend really care about you? God has bigger shoulders than we do, but we must not merely talk athim. Listening is an essential part of communication, and God an...
They were men "subject to like passions as we are." James 5:17. We see how they struggled through discouragements like our own, how they fell under temptation as we have done, and yet took heart again and conquered through the grace of God; and, beholding, we are [p. 88] encouraged in our striving after righteousness.
God has bigger shoulders than we do, but we must not merely talk at him. Listening is an essential part of communication, and God answers. When we have questions or needs, the Lord wants to help us; he wants to speak to us through the indwelling Spirit, through other believers, and through his living Word.
Jul 21, 2020 · Joshua Chatraw: If you set out to calculate a basic math “proof” or prove that a married bachelor can’t exist, we can reach a something we might call “absolute proof.” But if you expect “absolute proof” for the biggest questions of life—such as who you should marry, how you should raise your kids, what is meaningful, what is a virtuous way to live, is there a God and what is ...
Talking about God means first of all expressing clearly what God we must bring to the men and women of our time: not an abstract God, a hypothesis, but a real God, a God who exists, who has entered history and is present in history; the God of Jesus Christ as an answer to the fundamental question of the meaning of life and of how we should live.
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Mar 12, 2013 · In “Both,” Bell illustrates some of the challenges of theological language. He summarizes the task this way: “So when we talk about God we’re using language, language that employs a vast array of words and phrases and forms to describe a reality that is fundamentally beyond words and phrases and forms” (p. 87, emphasis removed). His ...
