Hearing God: Eliminate Myths. Encounter Meaning.

by Nathan Finochio

Identify and deconstruct the most common myths about how God communicates—and then learn to utilize clear tools to accurately decipher and follow the voice of God in your life.

So many people wish that God would audibly weigh in on life's greatest questions of calling, meaning, and purpose. What's crazy is that God is weighing in on those questions. We just haven't learned to listen. Nathan Finochio believes that God is constantly communicating with this world he's created. We simply aren't following the right advice when it comes to hearing what he has to say. Through biblical teaching and true life stories, Hearing God empowers and enables readers to separate fact from fiction, myth from meaning, and truly understand what God is saying to them about big decisions and daily living.

• ISBN10: 0735291713
• ISBN13: 9780735291713
• Publish Date: 11 June 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
• Imprint: WaterBrook
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780735291713

Reviews

[phyllish]

A practical approach to Christianity

My rating is 4.5 stars

Worship leader, pastor, and author Nathan Finochio uses a blend of everyday illustrations and Biblical teaching mixed with humor to speak to the question of how we can hear God. When I was offered the opportunity to review the book, I was curious about his approach and his theology. I am more familiar with the worship music of Hillsong than its teaching and didn't know if I should expect a more liberal or conservative viewpoint.

I really appreciated his approach. The illustrations were appropriate and enhanced the points he used to illuminate instead of overpowering them. They were practical everyday type examples that will resonate with many people. The writing style was engaging and the prose was neither too self-deprecating nor too boastful. I felt I could relate to the author, for the most part. (Not the self-centered generation stuff - of course that couldn't be me!)

While the author's worldview is a charismatic, there was little, if anything, here to make a more conservative believer uncomfortable. Yet I would challenge all believers to read the book with an attitude of learning and considering its message.

I loved the emphasis on the importance of comparing what you think the Lord is saying to you with what Scripture teaches. God never contradicts Himself.

Spiritually mature Christians could benefit from this book as a great reminder of the things we should know already and could also learn, like I did, some new things along the way. Newer Christians will find this to be very helpful in learning the basics of Christian living. Despite the title, I would consider this book much more about walking with God daily rather than simply teaching us to hear God's voice. Yet as you will discover in your reading, living a life of walking in the Spirit is a huge component of hearing God.

Read my full review at at Among the Reads

[Jeff Sexton]

Awesome Premise. Flawed Execution. In this book, Finochio makes several excellent points, and it is a book genuinely worthy of reading. But yet again we get a book from a Christian pastor that decries the practice of "proof texting" - citing an out of context verse from the Bible in support of whatever claim the person is making at the time - ... while doing it in seemingly nearly every paragraph of the 200 pages of text of this book. We see, yet again, the modern Christian phenomenon of worshiping the Bible as God's Word, despite the very book itself (in John 1:1) declaring that *Jesus Christ* is God's Word. And indeed, Finochio uses some genuinely impressive mental gymnastics somewhat frequently to claim that both the Bible and Jesus Christ are God's Word at the same time. For the Christian mainstream in America, this book will probably go over quite well and hell, he does make good points throughout the book even in his flawed execution, so I'll recommend it to that crowd at least. It simply could have been so much more and so much stronger, and is disappointing in not being so.