God may be speaking—but how do you know it’s really Him?

Ken and Julie use an unexpected comparison from metal detecting to explore how we learn to recognize God’s voice. Every detector has a language. Some signals lead to treasure. Others lead to trash that sounds almost exactly the same. Our spiritual lives can feel just as uncertain.

Ken shares the childhood discovery that brought Singapore’s bomb squad to his neighborhood and the Guam beach search that recovered a stranger’s lost wedding ring. Then Ken and Julie turn to the healing of the man born blind in John 9. He had never seen Jesus. At first, all he knew was the sound of His voice—and he chose to follow it.

How do we tell God’s voice from our own desires, fear, skepticism, or deception? This conversation offers four practical safeguards: be willing to listen, spend time in God’s Word, expect Him to speak, and respond when He does.

Chapters:


00:40 Hearing God’s Voice
01:43 A Bucket-List Conversation
03:13 Metal Detecting at the Beach
04:16 Learning a Detector’s Language
08:11 Trash or Treasure?
09:40 Why the Search Is Worth It
13:47 The Find That Called the Bomb Squad
22:41 Can Hearing God Feel This Real?
25:58 The Blind Man Who Heard Jesus
30:12 “Do You Want to Be His Disciple Too?”
32:06 Recognizing Jesus by His Voice
33:46 Who Is Really Blind?
35:22 My Sheep Know My Voice
37:23 Jesus at the Door
39:10 When Other Voices Drown Him Out
42:20 How Sheep Know Their Shepherd
46:02 Four Ways to Hear God
46:13 Be Willing to Listen
50:12 Spend Time in His Word
52:46 Expect God to Speak
54:35 Respond When He Speaks
58:18 The Search for a Lost Wedding Ring
64:19 A Prayer to Hear God Clearly

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