Listening to God is probably the most important thing we can do. John makes this clear in the letters to the 7 churches of Asia where the phrase ‘Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches’ (Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29, 3:6, 13, 22) is the conclusion...

A church differs from theme-based clubs in many ways, but the key factor is God's presence with people. In Revelation 2 and 3, we have 7 letters to churches in Asia, and each letter starts with some aspect of Christ's presence which was of great relevance to them....

'The Message' paraphrase of the Bible came out of Eugene Peterson's frustration that so many ordinary people in the United States of America had no real connection with the Bible. As a pastor of a local church, he longed for people to share his love of the Bible, and...