A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ

by J. P. Moreland

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2021

Overview

Does God Still Do Miracles Today? A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles will give you confidence in and awareness of the supernatural realm as you learn how to flourish spiritually by experiencing more miraculous interventions in your life and ministry. Internationally renowned philosopher J. P. Moreland looks at the nature of miracles and explains why bearing and receiving credible testimony to God’s miraculous acts is a crucial feature of a mature Jesus-follower. He also shows how to distinguish a real miracle from a mere coincidence. Miracles bring comfort to believers, strengthening faith in God and creating boldness in our lives.

While miraculous healings have occurred frequently throughout church history, Moreland provides data showing how the last fifty years have seen a massive outbreak of miracles and supernatural activity. Today, he argues, the church should humbly expect to see more of these miraculous works of God than we do.

Moreland looks at topics like:

• The relationship between sickness and suffering, along with two different ways to pray for healing
• How to discern clearly the difference between a genuine miracle and a mere coincidence
• How to increase your faith that petitionary prayer really works and what to make of unanswered prayer
• Six ways God speaks to us and advice for hearing God wisely and biblically
• The role angels play in our lives, how they appear to us, and how to combat demonic influence
• The biblical basis for most Near-Death Experiences and what we can learn from them

A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles increases your expectation and hope that God can and often does miraculously intervene to bring help and comfort. Moreland shows that it makes rational sense to step out and engage in employing Kingdom power and to strengthen courage to witness and act on behalf of the gospel of Jesus. Filled with inspiring, credible, motivating accounts of miracles, he covers five different kinds of supernatural activities and provides practical wisdom about how to begin practices such as healing prayer and learning to deal with the demonic.

Contents

Top Highlights

“the third point is the notion that one can know something without being absolutely certain that one is right.” (source)

“It brings reassurance that when some event or phenomenon satisfies the IAP, we have solid grounds for claiming to know that the event or phenomenon was miraculous. We are not—I repeat, not—engaging in confirmation bias (the tendency to look at and accept only evidence that confirms what we already believe while disregarding disconfirming evidence).” (source)

“While most Bible-believing Christians retain a mild doctrinal belief in the supernatural and miracles, they live as practical atheists, with very little expectation of seeing the miraculous.” (source)

“The answer is that it is generally the case that God places greater value on our learning the connection between prayer and provision than he does on meeting the need itself. Put differently, the reason God often does not just meet our needs, regardless of whether we pray, is that he is more concerned to secure our dependency on him, to prevent idolatry, to enhance our friendship with him, and to foster our co-laboring with him than he is to meet what is a legitimate, significant need.” (source)

“Given that God exists and is a Person, the only way one can say that a given miracle or miracles in general are improbable and extremely unlikely is to know God’s mind. And I have no idea how an atheist can claim to know that, much less know what God is supposed to do or not do if he were real.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ
• Author: J. P. Moreland
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780310124207, 9780310124191, 0310124190, 9780310124214, 0310124212, 0310124204
• Resource ID: LLS:9780310124207
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T23:17:39Z

About J. P. Moreland

J. P. Moreland is Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He received a B. S. in physical chemistry from the University of Missouri, a Th.M. in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Riverside, and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Southern California. He has spoken and debated on over 200 college campuses and taught in 500 or so churches around the world. In addition, he has authored, edited, or contributed papers to ninety-five books, including Does God Exist? (Prometheus), Universals (McGill-Queen’s), Consciousness and the Existence of God (Routledge), The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, and Debating Christian Theism (Oxford.) He has also published over 85 articles in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, MetaPhilosophy, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, and Faith and Philosophy. Moreland was selected in August, 2016 by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers in the world.