What Is A Conversational Relationship with God? My Story
Conversations With God with Doug Sherman
Release Date: 04/01/2026
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Conversations With God with Doug Sherman
Most Christians experience God for about 1% of their week — a Sunday service, maybe a few minutes in the morning. Doug Sherman makes the case that this isn't the life God intended. Drawing on Brother Lawrence's Practicing the Presence of God — the most-published Christian book outside the Bible — and passages from Psalm 139, John 15, and Revelation 3:20, Doug unpacks what it looks like to live in continual conversation with God: not a contemplative life withdrawn from the world, but an active one where washing dishes, raising kids, and going to work all become conversation starters...
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What Is A Conversational Relationship with God? My Story
Conversations With God with Doug Sherman
What does it actually look like to have a real relationship with God — not a religious one, not a moral one, but a genuine, ongoing conversation with him? In this first episode, Doug Sherman shares the story that started it all: a 14-year-old boy on a back step in Indiana, the son of a WWII veteran with deep wounds, who looked out into the woods and saw Jesus — and said the words that would shape the rest of his life: "I've made a mess of my life. Would you take it and lead it?" What followed wasn't a church program or a theology class. It was four years of simply walking through life...
info_outlineWhat does it actually look like to have a real relationship with God — not a religious one, not a moral one, but a genuine, ongoing conversation with him?
In this first episode, Doug Sherman shares the story that started it all: a 14-year-old boy on a back step in Indiana, the son of a WWII veteran with deep wounds, who looked out into the woods and saw Jesus — and said the words that would shape the rest of his life: "I've made a mess of my life. Would you take it and lead it?"
What followed wasn't a church program or a theology class. It was four years of simply walking through life with Jesus — talking to him in the classroom, on the football field, on the way to school — learning that the Christian life is meant to be a series of conversations with God, growing in frequency and depth.
Doug unpacks three truths that have anchored his 75 years: Jesus is always present and eager for conversation. God's hand is visible all around us. And Jesus is a vastly better leader of your life than you are.
If you've ever felt like your relationship with God was more admiration from a distance than actual friendship — this episode is your starting point.
This week's challenge: Set an alarm at 10am and 2pm. Pause. Thank Jesus for three things. That's it. Small steps lead somewhere.