Learning to “hear” God’s voice (i.e., “discernment”) actually begins by learning what is not God’s voice. That is to say, each of us arrives to our relationship with God with many voices in our head – the voices of our family, our culture, our friends…the voice of Reason, of our deepest hopes, our deepest fears. Indeed,...
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Loving God 101, Part 6: Freedom (Really!) in Confession and Repentance
For most of us “confession” does not sound like a very liberating idea. For me it used to conjure images of self-loathing, as I enumerated my sins with with heaps of guilt on the side. (Martin Luther was plagued by such feelings early in his life – often returning to confession right after he left...