What could be more amazing than waking up in this planet, on this rock spinning at thousands of miles an hour, conscious in a world where there are dung beetles and the Northern lights?

And so when we learn to hear God in all of life, we begin to walk and talk through life like Adam and Eve with God in the garden of Eden. We must learn to listen more carefully to those people our culture ignores, because God speaks most consistently from the margins – through children, through the poor, through those who suffer. Pete Greig: Nothing God says in any other way, in any other context, will ever override, undermine, or contradict what he has said in the Scriptures.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. Through his books and DVD studies, Strobel has reached millions of skeptics, believers, and those in-between with well-reasoned arguments for faith. And so the way I put it is how weird we get about God, when by definition he created everything we consider normal. Greig makes it quite clear that the Bible is the language of God’s heart, and therefore if we wish to hear what he is saying, we have to be immersed in the Scriptures. This title is a sequel to his best-selling ‘ How to Pray’, both books being subtitled, ‘ A Simple Guide for Normal People’.

You may remember Pete from Episode 71 of this podcast, when we talked with him about a simple guide for how to pray. And then, as well as God speaking through the Bible and through prophetic encounter, we find in this story something fascinating of God’s shyness and hiddenness. We’re following up our last episode with you where we talked about how to pray, with now how to hear God. The Lectio Course focuses primarily on learning to hear God’s voice through lectio divina, an ancient way of reading the Bible.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. And the way that Jesus pretends he’s got somewhere else to go when they arrive at Emmaus until they invite him in for the meal. The founder of the 24-7 prayer movement, Pete Greig is one of the UK’s most popular Christian authors. As a book, this is a simple read, but this is not a negative on the book, but rather it corresponds well to readers who may be new to the faith, new to spiritual disciplines – or are emerging form foundational programs such as Alpha. The L ectio Course is a free small group resource from 24-7 Prayer which will equip you and your community to learn how to hear God by praying the Bible.

While I would not say this is a comprehensive exploration on the topic, it delivers exactly what the title suggests: a simple guide. Pete explores this practice in greater detail in his book, How to Hear God, which is a rich supplementary resource if you want to go deeper. For us, the realignment of our spiritual lives is essential, through committing intentionally to spiritual disciplines and practices.So it’s like, as we get to know the acoustics of God’s voice, the nuance, the tone of God’s voice, we’re like sheep that follow him and then obey, and we grow in our relationship with him. As usual, Jesus keeps the whole thing refreshingly earthy, relational and simple: “My sheep listen to my voice”, he says. But it’s confusing, too, because God does not, for the most part, speak audibly – the way we speak to one another – and this means that we can easily misunderstand, misinterpret or miss out altogether on what he is saying. Having addressed God's silence in God on Mute, and then How to Pray in his previous bestseller , Pete Greig is back to bring wisdom and guidance to one of the most pressing and perplexing aspects of universal Christian experience - How to Hear God.