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Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 20 January 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 20 January 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 20 JANUARY 1930 Living in the atmosphere of Islam is proving—thus far— a tremendous spiritual stimulus. Mohammed is helping me. I have no more intention of giving up Christianity and becoming a Mohammedan than I had twenty year ago, but I find myself richer for the Is…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 29 January 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 29 January 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 29 JANUARY 1930 I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. This sense of cooperation with God in little things is what so astonishes me, for I never have felt it this way before. I need something, and turn round to find …
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 119:111-112
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 119:111-112 There’s a joyless religion that should be avoided like the plague. There’s a certain personality that obsesses with detail; it becomes preoccupied with rules and ritual; it prefers the letter of the law to the spirit of the law. Jesus clashed with this sort of p…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 51:10, 17
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 51:10, 17
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 51:10, 17 Repetition is a feature of the life of prayer as we can see in the psalms. Yet again the plea for forgiveness comes with ‘Make me a clean heart’. There is a particular religious psyche that is obsessed with sin. There’s also a psychological condition where the pat…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 78:9, 37, 73
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 78:9, 37, 73
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 78:9, 37, 73 This psalm is a saga of the heart. Read it all to get the full and turbulent story of one heart in pursuit of the other, the divine and the human. It spans generations. It shows that the faithlessness of one generation does not mean that God will abandon the ne…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 97:1, 11
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 97:1, 11
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 97:1, 11 Psalm 96 invites us to ‘worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth stand in awe of him’ (v. 9). And here we hear that the well-being of the earth flows from our recognition of the sovereignty of God. When creature and Creator are in harmony the…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 25:1, 16-17
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 25:1, 16-17
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 25:1, 16-17 There is some adversity, though not all, that we bring on ourselves. We need to be cautious about this, because the first reaction we have to calamities is to imagine that God must be punishing us for something we have done. As Jesus made clear of a man born bli…
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