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Reading 11/12/07
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Jesus Creed: Does God Still Speak?
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Hearing the Voice of God
ByhenryBob Cornwall has some great meditations on the lectionary texts for Epiphany 4B, which relate to the topic of When People Speak for God. The emphasis is on hearing. I maintain that hearing is most often neglected. We often debate about whether the word is inerrant while ignoring whether our understanding of it can ever…