What did you say?
Fred Drummond, director of Evangelical Alliance Scotland, explores why listening is essential to walking effectively with Jesus and with others
We live amid a continual communication snowstorm. We are bombarded. Our communication culture is defined by emails, texts, social media notifications, and phone calls. Even when we get time to chat, we are tempted to talk over one another, desperate to get our point across quickly.
In the face of this fast-paced, new communication lifestyle, could it be that we are losing the ability to listen?
I want to suggest that cultivating
listening skills is a necessity for deep
relationships – both with God and
with one another. To only speak at, or
speak to, is to deprive ourselves of...
A disillusioned, and uncertain man was walking in the countryside. He reflected as he walked, watching the sheep he was guarding. He came to a mountain called Horeb, and there encountered an...
It was as Moses listened, he was commissioned, and he heard the words of reassurance that God would be with him. At first, he felt like a failure as he did not have the gifts for the work...
It is very difficult for us to be secure in our identity and calling when we spend no time listening. In our rush to act, some of us never get to a place where we simply allow God to remind us...
