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Occasions for Alleluia - God is our lover
Occasions for Alleluia - God is our lover
by SPCK - David Adam
God is our lover Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we mi…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Introduction
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Introduction
by SPCK - John Goldingay
INTRODUCTION As far as Jesus and the New Testament writers were concerned, the Jewish Scriptures that Christians call the “Old Testament” were the Scriptures. In saying that, I cut corners a bit, as the New Testament never gives us a list of these Scriptures, but the body of Scri…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Acknowledgments
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - Acknowledgments
by SPCK - John Goldingay
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The translation at the beginning of each chapter (and in other biblical quotations) is my own. I have stuck closer to the Hebrew than modern translations often do when they are designed for reading in church so that you can see more precisely what the text says. T…
Occasions for Alleluia - Resting in God
Occasions for Alleluia - Resting in God
by SPCK - David Adam
Resting in God The conversation of the brethren should help and cheer us, but God’s voice speaks most often in silence. Keep some part of every day free from all noise and the voices of men, for human distraction and the craving for it hinder the Divine Peace...
Occasions for Alleluia - Unbend the bow
Occasions for Alleluia - Unbend the bow
by SPCK - David Adam
Unbend the bow Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. (Augustine, Confessions X.8)...
Occasions for Alleluia - Introduction
Occasions for Alleluia - Introduction
by SPCK - David Adam
Introduction One Easter on Holy Island, a few things suddenly came together. During Lent I had been reading A. N. Wilson’s novel, A Bottle in the Smoke, and I came across this passage describing the main character, Julian Ramsey, falling in love for the first time:..
Poem/Reflection: The Call
Poem/Reflection: The Call
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: The Call God calls all ages, all types of people and when that call comes it is not always easy to answer. Why me? What have I got to offer? I can’t speak, sing, work or pray in the way I’m being challenged to. I’m not good enough. Continues... ©Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Our rock and refuge
Prayer: Our rock and refuge
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Our rock and refuge In a world where there are so many uncertainties; where countries are torn by conflict and power struggles; where terrorism and crime strike indiscriminately; where economies are failing and unemployment is high; where flood, earthquake, fire, or other…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 March 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 9 March 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 9 MARCH 1930 For the first time in my life I know what I must do off in lonesome Lanao. I know why God left this aching void, for Himself to fill. Off on this mountain I must do three things: 1. I must pursue this voyage of discovery in quest of God’s will. I must bec…
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 1 March 1930