Pete Greig has given us another masterpiece. Wise and winsome, profound yet playful, How to Hear God is the book we need. From the wild charismatics to the monkish contemplatives, there is a feast here for all. A hundred years from now, this book will remain a crucial resource on the journey of faith.' associate senior pastor of New Life Church and aut Daniel Grothe John Mark Comer says it best: The best book I have read on the most important thing you will ever do. But Pete Greig is out with a new book to help us do just that. It’s called “How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People.” How we hear God speak is about how our neural pathways have learned to receive and process data, and this varies from person to person 2. THEOLOGICAL

Bible Gateway interviewed Pete Greig ( @PeteGreig) about his book, How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People (Zondervan, 2022). Greig’s book really challenged me. It flipped the script and made me recognize how often God has and does speak into my everyday life through his Word, conscience, community, creation, prophetic words of others, and even my dreams. Pete Greig: We live our best lives, and not our easiest lives, but our most joyous, living lives. I’m more and more convinced that the most dangerous thing you can do in life is say no to the God who knows you best, loves you most, and only wants the best for your life. And the safest place you can be in life, even though it may sometimes feel scary, is to say to the God who knows you best, wants the best for you, and loves you the most, “Yes. Whatever you want me to say, wherever you want me to go, whatever you want me to do, I will say it. I will do it. I will go there.” Pete Greig has given us both a practical and profound book on how to connect more deeply with God. I believe it will enrich the lives of many people. I highly commend it to you.' lead pastor of Church of the City New York Jon Tyson

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But if this is starting to sound a bit onerous, please don’t worry. As usual, Jesus keeps the whole thing refreshingly earthy, relational and simple: “My sheep listen to my voice”, he says. “I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27). Lent may only be for 40 days, but as the season of fasting draws to a close, Nigel Thonger asks:what if your Lenten habits could transform your relationship with God permanently?

The founder of the 24-7 prayer movement, Pete Greig is one of the UK’s most popular Christian authors. This title is a sequel to his best-selling ‘ How to Pray’, both books being subtitled, ‘ A Simple Guide for Normal People’. His eighth book to date, Greig confesses that this was the hardest to write. In the section on Lectio there was a tendency towards individualistic discipleship, which ironically was counterbalanced for me in doing the Lectio Course as a group exercise. He does return to the need to hear God in each other later, but there might be a tendency to see this as a separate thing altogether. Others heard his words but didn’t understand them. So I think having ears to hear means that we don’t just, as it were, hear the sounds of what God is saying, but we receive them into our hearts by faith and they affect us. And so it’s like at church, some people just listen to the sermon. They listen to the talk, and it just kind of washes over them. They’re there because that’s what you do on a Sunday. But others it’s like their hearts are ripped open and they’re responding. The follow up to Pete Greig’s How To Pray is a practical and encouraging guide to the other side of the prayer conversation: how to hear what God might be saying in response to the prayers we pray. Christin Thieme: Excellent. Well, thank you for that. And yes, we will link to both the book and the app in our show notes. So if you’re looking for those, search for them, or come find the link right in the show notes. Pete, thank you so much.I like how he doesn't stop at hearing God physically and 'in your heart'/'the silent whisper' but he paints the whole picture with a thorough exploration of how God speaks in the bible to how He speaks through our concsience to Him speaking through other people all the way to how He speaks through the 'unholy' culture. I love the subtitle of this book: a simple guide for normal people. That's what Pete Greig is always good at—taking a deeply profound and mysterious subject like prayer and inviting us into it in such a beautifully ordinary way. His teaching here is a wonderful mix of the everyday and the eternal—and therefore such a powerful and helpful read. So good!' worship leader and songwriter Matt Redman So, yeah, it’s about reading slowly. It’s about reverence for the text. It’s about using your imagination. It’s about turning the Bible from being a picture frame to a window frame. Okay? So too often we look at the Bible like a picture that you study and analyze. It’s fixed. It’s there in the picture frame. But what if instead we treat the Bible like a window frame? So through the Bible, we kind of open the window and look out on the world. The Revd Mike Starkey is Head of Church Growth for Manchester diocese and author of the Stepping Stones for Growth course. We have spent over twenty years teaching young people how to hear the voice of God. We wish we would have had this book the whole time—it would have made our jobs much easier! This is the most inspiring, empowering, and exhaustive book we have read on hearing God's voice. This book doesn't just fill your head with information but also will cause your heart to burn with inspiration. You could give this book to a brand-new believer, and they would be immediately empowered to hear God's voice. Or you could give it to a believer who has walked with God for many years, and they would be inspired and challenged to hear him in an even deeper way. The body of Christ has needed this book for very long time.' recording artists Jonathan and Melissa Helser