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GOD's rich Pattern - Trials and tribulations
GOD's rich Pattern - Trials and tribulations
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Trials and tribulations After all the excitement, it was down to earth with a bang. As I stated earlier, I had my left eye removed in 1976. Two years later my right eye (the one I had seen out of) started to play up. The pains in my head were tremendous. It was as though I had a …
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer
The Open Gate - The Eucharistic Prayer
by SPCK - David Adam
The Eucharistic Prayer At the centre of the Eucharist is the great eucharistic prayer. It is the offering of our Lord Himself to us, now in time and for all eternity. It contains the eternal relationship and love that our God always has towards us. It seeks to express deep myster…
The Open Gate - Candle Prayers
The Open Gate - Candle Prayers
by SPCK - David Adam
Candle Prayers These prayers are for the beginning and the ending of the day. It may help you to light a candle as a symbol of the presence and the power of God to triumph over every darkness. It is good to look at the flame and thank God that His light conquers the darkness, to …
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…
Simply Jesus - Stories that explain and a message that transforms
Simply Jesus - Stories that explain and a message that transforms
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stories that explain and a message that transforms Jesus, as we saw, had one particular method of explaining what was going on. As part of his campaign, he told stories. Not just any old stories. These stories were, for the most part, not ‘illustrations’, preachers’ tricks to dec…
A Bit Like Jesus - Reversing the Prosperity Gospel
A Bit Like Jesus - Reversing the Prosperity Gospel
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 6 Humility Reversing the Prosperity Gospel One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, ‘Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his slav…
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
A Bit Like Jesus - Healing stories and parables
by SPCK - Robin Gill
WEEK 1 Stories We Value Healing stories and parables Can I make an assumption about you as a reader of this Lent Book? I may well be wrong, but I assume that you are slightly intrigued by what it means to be ‘a bit like Jesus’. I should explain...
GOD's rich Pattern - Where to now?
GOD's rich Pattern - Where to now?
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Where to now? The work of a public relations officer took me into many different areas. I became so well known at the BBC that the car park attendants and security staff used to greet me by my name as I came in with my trusty tape recorder. I produced many good interviews that we…
The Gospel According to twilight - Thirst, Forbidden Fruit in Forks