Hearing from God: 5 Steps to Knowing His Will for Your Life

Stine (Contact), senior pastor at D.C. Metro Church, tailors his step-by-step guide for connecting with the message of God to readers looking for practical tools for communication. Stine guides believers with questions to promote self-reflection, close readings of scripture, writing exercises, and fresh ideas for personalized worship. He has created an accessible work that is part text and part workbook for a systematic and easily understood path toward creative engagement with the Lord. During the workbook portion, constituting more than half the book, Stine takes the seeker through a 40-day journey toward solidifying one’s relationship with the Almighty, breezily guiding the reader along his path of thought experiments, personal reflections, and scriptural exercises. Reflecting on his own experiences—beginning with a miraculous healing from a rare form of leukemia as a young man—he explains how his own history has helped direct his spiritual path, leading to his present role as pastor, guide, and teacher. Pastors and lay readers will appreciate how Stine clearly defines the journey toward God, providing tools for seekers at every level to assist them on their own sacred journeys. (Jan.)