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How to Hear God's Voice: A Practical Guide for Believers
Wondering if God still speaks? A practical, honest guide to hearing God's voice through Scripture, testimonies, and everyday life. No mysticism required.
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Listening Posture
Knowing God's voice the way a child knows their mother's.
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How to Start a Devotional Habit (That Actually Sticks)
Tired of devotional habits that last a week? A practical, guilt-free guide to building a daily time with God that fits your actual life. Start with 5 minutes.
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Trusting God in the Age of AI: What Proverbs 3 Says
John Lennox refused to choose between faith and intellect. A Doxa Engage session on Proverbs 3:5-8, self-sufficiency, and trusting God in the AI era.
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They Honour Me With Words: A Wake-Up Call From the Father
We sing and declare truth with our mouths while our hearts drift away. The Father calls, not with condemnation, but with the cry of a parent shut out.
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Babel Means Confused: The Pun Hidden in the Tower's Name (Genesis 11:1-9)
Day sixteen of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. Genesis 11:1-9 in the Hebrew: the pun that ties Babel to balal, why a name (shem) is the thing they reach for, what the one lip (saphah) had to do with their pride, the LORD who comes down to a tower meant to reach Him, and how the scattering is answered when God gives Abram the name Babel could not build and pours it out again at Pentecost. To be known by Him beats any name we make.
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The Tower of Babel: Why God Came Down to Scatter Them (Genesis 11:1-9)
Day sixteen of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks. The whole earth has one language and one plan, a tower to the heavens and a name of their own. Genesis 11:1-9, why a united people building upward is the reverse of trusting the God who had already told them where to go, what it means that the LORD came down to a tower meant to reach Him, and how the scattering of Babel is answered at Pentecost.
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Made in God's Image: Why Shedding Blood Strikes at God (Genesis 9:1-7)
Day eleven of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. Genesis 9 opens the new world with a blessing lifted straight from creation and a law written to guard human life. The Hebrew shows why it matters so much. Man is made in the tselem, the image of God, and the life sits in the dam, the blood, so to shed a man's blood is to strike at the likeness of the Maker. The blessing over Noah, the ban on eating blood, and how the image and the shed blood both find their end in Christ.
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God Blesses Noah: Why Human Life Is Sacred After the Flood (Genesis 9)
Day eleven of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks. The floodwaters are gone and the world stands empty, and God's first act is to bless Noah and hand him the new earth. Then He draws one hard line around human blood, because every person alive carries the image of God. Genesis 9:1-7, and where the worth of a single human life finally points.
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Sin Is Crouching at Your Door: What the Hebrew of Genesis 4 Reveals
Day four of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. Genesis 4 in Hebrew. The crouching-beast verb behind 'sin is crouching', the same desire-and-rule pair God said to Eve, the plural 'bloods' crying from the ground, and the seed of Genesis 3:15 carried on through Seth.
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Cain and Abel: God's Warning Before the First Murder (Genesis 4)
Day four of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks. In Genesis 4, God warns Cain before he lifts a hand, Abel's blood cries from the ground, and Hebrews picks the scene up centuries later to say the blood of Jesus speaks a better word than Abel's.
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Adam and Eve: How a Potter's Hands Made a Soul (Genesis 2)
Day two of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. Genesis 2:7 in Hebrew. Yatsar the potter's verb, neshamah the borrowed breath, the God-sent sleep of verse 21, and the tree of life open in Revelation 22.
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The Breath of Life: How Close God Came in Genesis 2
Day two of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks. Genesis 1 speaks galaxies from a distance. Genesis 2 puts God on His knees in the dirt, shaping a man and breathing into him, the same nearness Jesus brings when He breathes on His disciples in John 20.
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Best Prayer Apps 2026: Hallow, Pray.com, PrayerMate & Doxa
Best prayer apps 2026, honestly tested. Which is the best prayer list app (Hallow, PrayerMate, or Doxa) and the one failure they all share.
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Spiritual Disciplines Guide: 12 Practices for Real Faith
A beginner's guide to spiritual disciplines: prayer, fasting, Scripture, community, and more. Practical steps to start practicing today. No guilt required.
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