{"id":2868,"date":"2023-01-10T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","slug":"god-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"GOD SPEAKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here&#8217;s a cynical thought from renowned psychiatrist Thomas Szasz:\u00a0<\/h1>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIf you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.\u201d\u00a0<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s sad, really. What the world mocks as mental illness, we as Christians experience with submission and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One truly distinctive aspect of Christianity as a religion is that we serve a God who reveals Himself &#8211; and His will &#8211; to us.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we make time and space to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John 10:27 &#8211;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cynical thought from renowned psychiatrist Thomas Szasz:\u00a0 \u201cIf you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.\u201d\u00a0 It&#8217;s sad, really. What the world mocks as mental illness, we as Christians experience with submission and joy. One truly distinctive aspect of Christianity as a religion is that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}