But let's start with God's Word, with the Bible, which in so many ways is the most obvious

place that we can hear God's voice.

But in other ways, it's kind of becoming punk rock.

There's not a whole lot of people that believe in something like a reliable, written, ancient

voice document that is both true and authoritative in my life today, and that is somehow alive,

different than every other book in that it speaks to me.

And to some, that is probably the most troubling or confusing place to hear the voice of God.

I think increasingly, we live in a culture where people trust the inner whisper, or this

inner sense of intuition more than they actually trust something like an ancient Hebrew document

that might be authoritative in their life.

Recently, after preaching, I had someone come up to me and say, thank you because you're

beginning to take a book that every time I've tried to read it terrifies me and actually

unfolding it and making me appreciate its beauty.

And so that's more and more the culture that as pastors were preaching.

So tell us why start with God's Word and what does it mean to hear his voice through

his written Word?

Well, well, first of all, you know, we live in a culture where increasingly the belief

is, if you feel something, especially if you feel it really strongly, then that must be

true.

You can identify reality on the basis of what you feel reality to be, even down to gender

and all sorts of other things that would previously have been seen as absolute.

So we're in the middle of what the epistemological crisis of how do you know what you know?

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