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In 'Divine Providence,' Swedenborg explains why it is that we cannot always see God's hand in our chaotic world, why tragedy and war are allowed to happen, and how these things relate to us. If God were to remove all tragedies from our lives, of what worth would free will be?
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The word "prayer" expresses the largest and most comprehensive approach unto God. It gives prominence to the element of devotion. It is communion and intercourse with God. It is enjoyment of God. It is access to God. "Supplication" is a more restricted and more intense form of prayer, accompanied by a sense of personal need, limited to the seeking in an urgent manner of a supply for pressing need. "Supplication" is the very soul of prayer in the way...
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EDWARD McKENDREE BOUNDS did not merely pray well that he might write well about prayer.
He prayed because the needs of the world were upon him. He prayed, for long years, upon subjects which the easy-going Christian rarely gives a thought, and for objects which men of less thought and faith are always ready to call impossible. From his solitary prayer-vigils, year by year, there arose teaching equaled by few men in modern Christian history. He wrote...
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Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton's own spiritual journey, and this book illustrates the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization. A book for...
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Many children of God are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have us do. The importance of the subject cannot be, exaggerated; so much of our power and peace consists in knowing, where God would have us be, and in being just there.
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Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 4
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The enduring love story and satirical comedy by a master of the English novel. A young vicar's ambition drives him into a costly bargain in this classic tale from one of the Victorian era's finest novelists. Set in rural England in the fictitious county of Barsetshire, the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire brilliantly examines the intersection of romance and social class. Mark Robarts is a young, ambitious vicar from the village of Framley,...
67) Abide in Christ
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Written in 1888, "Abide in Christ" is Andrew Murray's beautiful and inspiring spiritual guide to a deeper and more meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. While born in South Africa in 1828, as Murray's father was a Dutch Reformed Church missionary sent from Scotland, Murray grew up educated in Scotland and later the Netherlands. He returned to South Africa in 1848 after his ordination, pastored several churches all over South Africa, and was an...
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The Desire of Ages, covers the life and ministry of Jesus. The author treats the life and work of Christ and his disciples in this volume from the standpoint of a believer to believers and as a Christian to Christians. The books thus include unique insights and concepts not found in other works of the time. It is a must book for parents, educators, Sunday-school officers, teachers, and students. It is an invaluable reference book, and should be in...
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Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic, 'A Short and Easy Method of Prayer.' Guyon believed that one should pray all the time, and that in whatever one does, one should be spending time with God.
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The first and chief need of our Christian life is, Fellowship with God. The Divine life within us comes from God, and is entirely dependent upon Him. Christ is a living Person, he loves you with a personal love. If we are to experience a deepening of spiritual life, we want to discover clearly what is the spiritual life that God would have us live, on the one hand; and, on the other, to ask whether we are living that life; or, if not, what hinders...
73) The Way to Peace
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The Way To Peace is, written in an incredibly vivid and fluid fashion. Margaret Deland really brings the story of Athalia and her husband Lewis Hal to life. She follows the two on their journey to inner peace and happiness, which begins from a spontaneous hike up a mountain so that Athalia could see the view, and Lewis could never tell her 'no'.
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban(s), was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He was extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Francis Bacon's Philosophy is displayed in the vast and varied writings he left, which might be divided in three...
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Three things make a divine-prayer, meditation, temptation. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry as he did me, to teach you to pray. Remember Luther's maxim, "To have prayed well is to have studied well." Get your text from God, your thoughts, your words.
Recreation to a minister must be as whetting is with the mower-that is, to be used only so far as is necessary for his work. May a physician in plague-time take...
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This vintage book contains a collection of forty-nine essays written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton that deal with the various societal problems of his day. A fascinating and arguably timeless social inquiry, "What's Wrong with the World?" tackles such subjects as role of women in society, education, socialism, capitalism, the family unit, and much more. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in early-twentieth century English society...
77) A Practical View
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William Wilberforce, best known as the driving force in Parliament that ended the slave trade in England, is concerned with convincing those who call themselves Christian to pursue "the real" nature and principles of the religion which they profess. A Practical View shows us the passion that fueled his life, and is a guide to help us move beyond being Christian in only the name.
78) The Antichrist
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The Antichrist is an in-depth study of who and what the Antichrist is or will be. Arthur W. Pink traces all biblical references to the Antichrist including the Psalms, the Prophets, the Gospels, the Epistles, and Revelation. This provides us with a vivid image of the evil one as well as a window into the evil acts that he will perpetrate. A valuable eschatological reference book.
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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His hand is ever on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the concerns of time. "His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men." He rules the world just as He rules the Church by prayer. This lesson needs to be emphasized, iterated and reiterated in the ears of men of modern times and brought to bear with cumulative force on the consciences...
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The Life of God in the Soul of Man was, written as a letter of spiritual counsel to a friend, and it succeeded far beyond the author's expectations. It passed from hand to hand until it was, brought to Gilbert Burnet, the future bishop of Salisbury, with the suggestion that it be, made available to the world. It is, considered a classic book of Christian devotion. It is timeless in its appeal. It’s thought is clear and comprehensible; its language...
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