Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
Written by Dallas Willard
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Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard (1935–2013) was a professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Philosophy from 1965 until his retirement in 2012. His groundbreaking books The Divine Conspiracy, The Great Omission, Knowing Christ Today, The Spirit of the Disciplines, Renovation of the Heart, and Hearing God forever changed the way thousands of Christians experience their faith.
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Readers find this title to be an essential and excellent book on hearing God's voice. It offers encouragement, insight, and guidance for those who hunger to walk with God. The writing style is reminiscent of C.S. Lewis and the content is worth revisiting. Highly recommended for believers and those new to Dallas work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great perspective on the triune God and the role of men seeking the path to relating to Him
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I definitely need to go through this again. New to Dallas’ work, and glad God guided me to this and several others. The words with which Dallas communicates are remniscent of a C.S. Lewis contemporary in processing and therefore outcomes communicated. Highly recommend this book!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent reading of an excellent book, worth listening to again to help lock everything in.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book on understanding the will of God.If Dallas wrote it you should read it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dallas Willard is a professor of philosophy at USC, but he's also one of Christianity's premiere authors when it comes to spiritual formation. Yet somehow, I managed to read not a single of his books all throughout seminary (purely unintentionally). I finally picked up and read Hearing God in the context of preparing to teach an adult Sunday school course, using the book as a basis. The thesis of the work, in Willard's own words, is as follows: "Hearing God's word will never make sense except when it is set within a larger life of a certain kind" (p. 211, italics original). Accordingly, the author discusses 1) what God's word actually is (hint: it's not limited to just the Bible) and 2) what kind of life we must live to hear and rightly discern God's voice in our life (viz., an active life of faith that submits itself to God). These two themes are further broken down by the various chapters, of which Willard gives a basic framework in the preface (p. 13). I highly recommend referring back to this framework at the beginning of each chapter--things will make much more sense this way. Similarly, the book ends with "a formula for living with God's voice" that ties up the book's contents into a neat and tidy three-page bow. (Note: Even though he ends with a "formula," the book itself is in no way formulaic.)I appreciated much about this book. Willard's manner of writing is clear and concise, not sacrificing anything intellectually, yet at the same conversational and easy-to-read. In addition, like a good speech, the book tells you what it's going to talk about, it talks about it, and then it tells you what it talked about . This layout makes understanding such a potentially nebulous concept much easier. Willard's theology is also well-informed, well within the evangelical framework, and, of course, biblically based. And as I sit here, I can honestly say that I can't find anything wrong with the book. There were so many good nuggets that the only problem I can see with this work is trying to narrow down the material for teaching it in class!In sum, if you're looking for a solid, well-written book on understanding divine guidance, stop looking--just get Hearing God.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A little too esoteric in his writing style... good subject matter but not very accessible for the typical layperson.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There’s never been a clearer, well- thought out teaching on the reality of God and hearing his voice. For believers, this is essential reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book on having a hearing relationship with God!!!!! I cannot recommend it enough.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book, for the one who truly hungers to walk with God in the cool of the day, offers so much encouragement and insight. It’s taken me a long time to get through, but that’s fine. It’s a journey.