Inside this theme issue on ‘How to hear the word of God’:

• The centrality of scripture
• A radical idea?
• Surviving in a mad, bad world
• Reaching rural Wales
• Can we really believe the Old Testament?
• Family worship
• The best preaching on earth
• Getting the gospel out
• The art of balancing
• Turning points in church history: 1859
• Finally alive
• Book reviews
• Family worship
• Personal Bible reading