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GOD's rich Pattern - A reason for living
GOD's rich Pattern - A reason for living
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
A reason for living Ralph hated the term Parkinson’s disease. He felt he was somehow contagious, and didn’t want anyone to know that he had it. He behaved as though he were ashamed. When tragedy strikes, our first reaction is that we don’t want to go on. Life has no meaning. For …
Occasions for Alleluia - Loving
Occasions for Alleluia - Loving
by SPCK - David Adam
Loving ‘Would you know our Lord’s meaning in this? Learn it well. Love was his meaning. Who showed it to you? Love. Why did he show it to you? For love. Hold fast to this, and you shall learn and know more about love, but you will never need to know or understand about anything e…
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…
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)...
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 1 March 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 1 March 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 1 MARCH 1930 The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily. I do not need to strain at all to find opportunity. It plies in upon me as the waves roll over the beach, and yet there i…
A Bit Like Jesus - The founder of the Samaritans
A Bit Like Jesus - The founder of the Samaritans
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care The founder of the Samaritans Chad Varah, Rector of St Stephen, Walbrook and founder of the Samaritans, died aged 95 on 8 November 2007. The very next day The Times published a full-page obituary. There cannot be many Anglican clergy, other than archbishops, who might…
A Bit Like Jesus - Compassion and God
A Bit Like Jesus - Compassion and God
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 3 Compassion Compassion and God If God is seen as wholly compassionate, we in turn should have compassion for each other and for the world that God has entrusted to us. Compassion should be central for us as human beings because God is already compassionate towards us. This …
A Bit Like Jesus - The story of the Caring Samaritan
A Bit Like Jesus - The story of the Caring Samaritan
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 4 Care The story of the Caring Samaritan Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all you…
Scripture and the Authority of God - The Challenge of Enlightenment
Scripture and the Authority of God - The Challenge of Enlightenment
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Challenge of the Enlightenment The Enlightenment (a) Insisted on Historical Readings and (b) Attempted Thereby to Undermine Orthodox Christianity through Rationalism – a New Twist to ‘Reason’ We are all children, grandchildren or at least stepchildren of the eighteenth-centur…
Scripture and the Authority of God - Misreadings of Scripture from Today's Context
Scripture and the Authority of God - Misreadings of Scripture from Today's Context
by SPCK - N T Wright
Misreadings of Scripture in Today’s Context The Growth of Misreadings Within this complex cultural context, it is not surprising that all kinds of misreadings of scripture have grown up, both among those who count themselves as Bible-believers and among those who distance themsel…
The Power of the Parable - Riddle Parables
The Power of the Parable - Riddle Parables
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 1 Riddle Parables So That They May Not Understand Nessun dorma— “Nobody sleeps tonight”— proclaims the Princess Turandot in Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, unfinished at his death in 1924. Nobody can sleep because a riddle must be solved before the dawn. Here is …
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 10 February 1931
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 10 February 1931
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 10 February 1931 If there is any contribution that I have to make to the world that will live, surely it must be my experience of God on Signal Hill. This afternoon I climbed my way to the top, weighted with a sense of remorse. Everything wrong that I have done in twe…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 October 1930
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 15 October 1930
by SPCK - Frank C Laubach
The Letters 15 OCTOBER 1930 Has God ever struck you as the Great Stirrer-Up? One thing He seems to have determined is that we shall not fall asleep. We make or discover paradises for ourselves, and these paradises begin to lull us into sleepy satisfaction. Then God comes with His…
Letters by a MODERN MYSTIC - The letters 12 October 1930