Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
During the last presidential elections in the US, I was facilitating a discipleship training school on “Listening to God.” About half of these college-age students were Americans, evenly split by Republican and Democrat polarizations. One evening, we were watching the...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
I would like to give a clarifying word about where I stand personally on the question of “the prophets.” Some folks believe that my teaching on "listening prayer" negates any need or place for prophets in the church today. Occasionally I hear that I’ve...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
When I lead prayer seminars on finding a visual “meeting place” with God, I often bump into fear that this is a version of "guided imagery" or “visualisation”–a psychological or New Age technique that can be spiritually hazardous. How does this differ...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
One of the features that first drew me into the late 20th century renewal movement was my hunger and thirst to be “touched” by the presence of God. Feeling dry and empty, I began to earnestly seek after an experience of the living presence of Christ wherever I caught...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Brad Jersak
2 Samuel 22:20 (NIV) He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because he delighted in me. The picture I see when imagining the spacious place is of a beautiful mountain meadow. It stretches as far as the eye can see with beautiful vistas of spacious...
