We’ve been looking at how God communicates with Wo/Man. The prophets reveal to us the secrets of God, which are called mysteries in the New Testament. We’ve looked at the first two mysteries: 1. The mystery of godliness, which speaks to the origin and the root of goodness, that God is the source of goodness…

We are talking about how God communicates with man—directly and indirectly, through the prophets. The prophets, we are told, reveal to us the secrets of God:   God reveals his secrets through the prophets. (Amos 3:7) In the New Testament, these secrets are called mysteries. They’re not whodunit mysteries; rather, they are mysteries of the…

Last week, we looked at six lessons about how God communicates directly with Wo/Mankind, derived from two stories in the Book of Jacob: The story of the stairway to heaven, and the story of Jacob’s wrestling with God at the brook Jabok.  Today, we want to talk about prophets in the context of Jesus’s promise…

We are looking at how to communicate with God, and how God communicates with Wo/Man, whether through direct or indirect communication, through life experiences, and through ordinary people as well as through teachers and prophets and sages. Last week, we studied communication by God from the stories of Jacob. We learned that Jacob found that…

We’ve been talking about how God communicates with humankind in the context of Jesus’s promise to send prophets, teachers, and sages to keep us informed. Last week, we talked about prayer, that common universal experience of contact with God; something as old as mankind itself, found in every age, amongst all people. It’s remarkable then,…

We’ve been talking about prophets, teachers, and sages, and how God communicates with humankind.  We saw last week that about 25% of Americans in a Gallup poll claimed to have had a direct and certain message from God—either his voice that they’ve heard, or the message was manifested in a dream or in a vision.…