Unspoken Sermons

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Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M12 1 - 408 páginas
British author GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905) was best known in his day-and best remembered today-as a novelist, but he was also a preacher of some renown in Victorian England.This new edition contains all three volumes of Macdonald's "Unspoken Sermons," originally published between 1867 and 1889, including: . "The Child in the Midst." "The Consuming Fire." "It Shall Not Be Forgiven." "The Hands of the Father." "The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity." "The Fear of God." "Self-Denial." "The Displeasure of Jesus." and many others.

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THE CAUSE OF SPIRITUAL STUPIDITY
147
THE WORD OF JESUS ON PRAYER
158
MANS DIFFICULTY CONCERNING PRAYER
169
THE LAST FARTHING
181
ABBA FATHER
191
LIFE
205
THE FEAR OF GOD
216
THE VOICE OF JOB
225

LOVE THINE ENEMY
107
THE GOD OF THE LIVING
114
UNSPOKEN SERMONS SERIES
121
THE HARDNESS OF THE WAY
136
SELFDENIAL
247
THE TRUTH IN JESUS
261
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Página 142 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Página 141 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Página 243 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Página 230 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Página 243 - Then Job answered the Lord, and said: I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Página 243 - Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken ; but I will not answer : Yea, twice ; but I will proceed no further.
Página 230 - Oh, that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him And fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Página 107 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

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George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He attended University in Aberdeen in 1840 and then went on to Highbury College in 1848 where he studied to be a Congregational Minister, receiving his M. A. After being a minister for several years, he became a lecturer in English literature at Kings College in London before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In 1955, he wrote his first important original work, a long religious poem entitled Within and Without. He is best known for his fantasy novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith and fairy tales including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. In 1863, he published David Eiginbrod, the first of a dozen novels that were set in Scotland and based on the lives of rural Scots. He died on September 18. 1905.

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