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A Bit Like Jesus - The faith of a Gentile
A Bit Like Jesus - The faith of a Gentile
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith The faith of a Gentile When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, appealing to him and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying at home paralysed, in terrible distress.’ And he said to him, ‘I will come and cure him.’ The centurion answered, ‘Lord, I am not worthy…
A Bit Like Jesus - Faithfulness
A Bit Like Jesus - Faithfulness
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 5 Faith Faithfulness A doctor friend was asked to produce a set of bullet points for a patient fact sheet about healthy living. He included the obvious candidates: Don’t smoke; Drink and eat moderately; Take exercise; and so forth. Then he playfully added two final bullet po…
A Bit Like Jesus - Family Stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Family Stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Family Stories Stories are particularly important for families. We tell and retell stories about where and when we were born, about holidays shared, about birthday and Christmas parties enjoyed long ago, about grandparents and great-grandparents no longer …
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing Stories rather than miracle stories
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories rather than miracle stories The problem is that many will see the Gospel stories as miracle stories. So are they really healing stories? Here, for example, is the first such story in Mark 1.21–28: They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbat…
GOD's rich Pattern - A window on the world
GOD's rich Pattern - A window on the world
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
A window on the world The joy of discovering that I had a brain soaking up English literature, music and choral singing was fantastic. I’d had, until blindness struck, only a very basic education. It was really only occupation of the mind, rather than learning life skills. Now, a…
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 …
Evensong - ALL I KNOW