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Hearing God’s Words: Exploring Biblical Spirituality is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many discussions of Christian spirituality draw on a range of traditions and “disciplines.” Little attention, however, appears to have been given to the Bible itself for its teaching on this theme or as a source of spirituality. Similarly, it is commonly assumed that, when it comes to spirituality, the evangelical tradition has little to offer. Peter Adam, in response, urges us to renew our...

this happening as Isaac unintentionally blesses Jacob, and cannot recall the blessing once he has spoken it (Gen. 27). We see this too in Jacob’s blessing of the twelve tribes, blessings that form the nature of their subsequent history (Gen. 49). Words convey the blessing of God. Genesis ends with the story of the death of Joseph, who still believes on his deathbed the word and promise that God made to his forefathers: ‘God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land [Egypt] to the
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