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Scripture and the Authority of God - How to Get Back on Track
Scripture and the Authority of God - How to Get Back on Track
by SPCK - N T Wright
How to Get Back on Track The Need for an Integrated View of Scripture’s Authority We urgently need an integrated view of the dense and complex phrase ‘the authority of scripture’. Such an integrated view needs to highlight the role of the Spirit as the powerful, transformative ag…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 August 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 August 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 21 AUGUST 1930 I shall be forty-six in two weeks. I no longer have the sense that life is all before me, as I had a few years ago. Some of it is behind—and a miserable poor past it is, so far below what I had dreamed that I dare not even think of it. Nor dare I think …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 September 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 22 September 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 22 SEPTEMBER 1930 We have got to saturate ourselves with the rainbows and the sunset marvels in order to radiate them. It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until we become white with Christ as it is for u…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - Foreword
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - Foreword
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
Foreword by Dallas Willard You hold in your hands a treasure provided by Christ to all people who long to live their real life today in the constant presence and power of God. It comes through the soul of a man who lived such a life—Frank Laubach. He was a quintessentially modern…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 73:1, 20, 25
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 73:1, 20, 25
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 73:1, 20, 25 The fact that this psalm continues to agonize over the success of the ungodly reflects how we ourselves struggle continuously to square the problem of evil with our faith in a loving God. ‘Then thought I to understand this: but it was too hard for me’ (v. 15). …
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 66:16-17
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 66:16-17
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 66:16-17 Can we ever find God to be deaf to our prayers? After all, surely he sees and hears all. But this poetic image takes us to the heart of prayer. The life of faith is not about finding the right words or rituals to manipulate fate. That’s what the occult tries to do.…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 62:4, 8
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 62:4, 8
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 62:4, 8 There are two hearts that are polar opposites. The cursing heart is not always plain to see. It can be well disguised, as in Psalm 55, when the person ‘having war in his heart’ can speak words ‘softer than butter’ and ‘smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords’…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 58:1-2, 10
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 58:1-2, 10
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 58:1-2, 10 It is curious in the modern world that whereas there is great emphasis upon human justice, there is so little acceptance of divine judgement. Yet the two are the opposite sides of the one coin. People seem to resist and even dismiss the idea of God judging us, wh…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 55:4-6
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 55:4-6
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 55:4-6 Before you undergo surgery the conversation with the doctor is a sobering experience. Your doctor explains the operation and the risks and asks you to sign the form agreeing to the treatment. I was told clearly and kindly about the risk of a stroke and death...
The Gospel According to twilight - Thirst, Forbidden Fruit in Forks
The Gospel According to twilight - Thirst, Forbidden Fruit in Forks
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Thirst Forbidden Fruits in Forks Chapter Four What we really need to know about the Twilight novels, with all their plots, themes, and drama, is that the driving force of this story is desire. This is a tale of unremitting hunger. It is a saga of raw, elemental need and of the le…
The Gospel According to twilight - Introduction
The Gospel According to twilight - Introduction
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
INTRODUCTION My daughter, an engineering graduate student, had scarcely gotten into the car with her suitcase when she thrust a book into my hands. Twilight. “Mom, you should read this,” she said. “Vampires?” I asked. Really? I had better things to do over Christmas break, and I …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 3 June 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 3 June 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 3 JUNE 1930 This experiment which I am trying is the most strenuous discipline which any man ever attempted. I am not succeeding in keeping God in my mind very many hours of the day, and from the point of view of experiment number one, I should have to record a pretty…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 July 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 July 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 2 JULY 1930 The newest experiment, and at present the most thrilling, is letting God talk through my own tongue and through my own fingers on the typewriter. I have been letting my tongue talk on Signal Hill behind my house and then have come home and written on the t…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 14 May 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 14 May 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 14 MAY 1930 Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making Him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across. It is working. I cannot do it even half of a day—not yet, but I believe I shall…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:10-11