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The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The Birthday Party - 1
The Meal Jesus Gave Us - The Birthday Party - 1
by SPCK - Tom Wright
1 The Birthday Party Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN The Meal Jesus Gave Us You are just sitting down to the table. It is your ten-year-old sister’s birthday party. (If you’re too old to have a ten-year-old sister, think of your daughter, your niece or your granddaughter.) Everything i…
Arthur's Call - Preface
Arthur's Call - Preface
by SPCK - Frances Young
Preface My purpose in this book is to give testimony to a journey of faith inspired by caring for a profoundly disabled son for 45 years, while also being theologian, university teacher and Methodist minister. It takes up, yet significantly modifies, the earlier account written w…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Acknowledgements
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Acknowledgements
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Acknowledgements I am grateful to Joanna Moriarty and Alison Barr at SPCK and other colleagues here in Chelmsford for their encouragement with this book. Richard Harries introduced me to the paintings of Albert Herbert. You can find out more in his book The Image of Christ in Mod…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 39:1, 4, 5
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 39:1, 4, 5
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 39:1, 4, 5 The tongue and heart, two organs at the centre of life. As this psalm shows, what goes on in the metaphorical heart eventually comes out through the tongue literally. Bridling the tongue and muzzling the mouth especially when faced with those who have it in for y…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 49:3-4
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 49:3-4
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 49:3-4 The heart is the seat of the will. It is also the mat for meditation where we muse imaginatively about how God is at work within us. Stories, songs, music and poetry all help us to meditate. You can lose yourself in a story and then deep in the drama suddenly see you…
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 45:1
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 45:1
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 45:1 Because the heart is the seat of the will it has the authority to direct the imagination. This psalm is a paean of praise to the king. To a cynical age as ours it sounds somewhat sycophantic! You are, in our time, unlikely to hear such praise for our leaders and those …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 23 March 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 23 March 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 23 MARCH 1930 You and you and you and I do experience fine fresh contact with God sometimes, and do carry out His will sometimes. One question now to be put to the test is this: Can we have that contact with God all the time? All the time awake, fall asleep in His arm…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 18 April 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 18 April 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 18 APRIL 1930 I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting. This afternoon the possession of God has caught me up with such sheer joy that I thought I never had known anything like it. God was so close and so ama…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 March 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 March 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 15 MARCH 1930 If these letters are to be given a name, I think it must be “The Story of a Reconversion,” for something of this sort is still in progress. This week a new and to me marvelous experience has come out of my loneliness. I have been so desperately lonesome …
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 22:14
With My WholeHeart - Psalm 22:14
by SPCK - James Jones
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax. Recovering from heart surgery I could not find a more vivid expression to describe my aching body and soul. Anaesthesia, sedation and painkil…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Appendix
Scripture and the Authority of God - Appendix
by SPCK - N T Wright
Appendix Getting Started on Bible Study Those who want to get into the study of scripture for themselves – and studying scripture is, in the end, far more profitable than theorizing about it – will find a wealth of material to help them. What follows is only a small selection, wh…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 September 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 2 September 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 2 SEPTEMBER 1930 Tip and I and God were together tonight on Signal Hill. Oh God, let me put on paper the glory that was there. The sunset was not more beautiful than at other times, but God said more in it. I suppose it was because I was trying to make this first day …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 September 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 21 September 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 21 SEPTEMBER 1930 Our search for God through narrow straits has brought a sudden revelation, like an explorer who has just come out upon a limitless sea. It is not any particularly new idea but a new feeling, which came almost of itself. Today God seems to me to be ju…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - A son introducing his father