Meditation Sermons

In Flowers from a Puritan’s Garden, Spurgeon prayerfully selects and expands upon the profound insights and analogies gleaned from Thomas Manton’s sermons. Each “flower” in this garden is a spiritual truth, lovingly cultivated and presented with Spurgeon's signature warmth, wit, and pastoral care.

Various words for “love” appear thirty-five times in the five brief chapters of I John. This book invites you on a journey of reading and reflection: reading this book in the New Testament and reflecting on God’s love for us, our love for God, and our love for one another. Author Will Vaus is the pastor of Stowe Community Church in Stowe, Vermont. He is a popular speaker and author of seven books related to C.S. Lewis and three books of Christian reflections.

Although theologians are apt to explain away these teachings in various ways, the Vedantists believe Christ meant what he said. Listen to this remarkable recording and discover how Vedanta goes to the very heart of Christ's teaching.Vedanta came to the West in the late 19th century, not to supplant any religion, but to bring a more tangible spirituality to those who seek it. Its goal has never been to proselytize, but to help man realize the divinity within him.

“SPEAK evil of no man,” says the great Apostle; as plain a command as, “Thou shalt do no murder.” But who, even among Christians, regards this command? Yea, how few are there that so much as understand it? What is evil-speaking? It is not, as some suppose, the same with lying or slandering. All a man says may be as true as the Bible; and yet the saying of it is evil-speaking. For evil-speaking is neither more nor less than speaking evil of an absent person; relating something evil, which was really done or said by one that is not present when it is related. Suppose, having seen a ...

When John Donne stood in the pulpit of St. Paul's, the lyricism of a great poet fused with the devotion of a holy man. There were no prepared sermons, for he spoke only from notes, and what he said was later transcribed from memory. But the sermons were overwhelming; for behind him was a lifetime devoted, as poet, philosopher and devine, to God.

Contains all three volumes of MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons (series 1, 2, and 3). Regimen Books Christian Classics publishes high-quality texts of important books. Each includes an informative, insightful introduction written today by an expert. George MacDonald’s Unspoken Sermons is a collection of essays that emphasize our relationship with God. This Regimen Christian Classics Book includes all three of the original volumes, consisting of a total of thirty-six sermons.From the time the three volumes were first published in the 1800s, they have exercised a major influence. The Christian ...

THE note which runs through Doctor Slicer's "Meditations" is that of expectancy of good from God, God's universe, and God's creature Man. He believes with all his heart that God's very essence is love, that the universe abounds in beauty and loveliness which Man is capable of appreciating and responding to, and that in human nature itself there are large elements of gentleness, dignity, and sympathetic loyalty which since history began have been winning successive victories over inherited animal propensities, barbaric vices, and social and industrial wrong-doings. He believes in the gradual...

A collection of sermons that will ignite a craving for God’s word. John Flavel urges his congregation to deepen their understanding of scripture, which will improve their relationship with God, strengthen their faith against spiritual attacks and false teachings, and transform their lives. Stressing the importance of discernment grown from immersion in God’s word, the practical and concise advice contained here also serves as a useful and encouraging devotional tool for Christians at any point in their walk with God.

St. John Henry Newman, regarded as the most important English theologian of the nineteenth century, poignantly reflects on the thoughts that tormented Jesus as a result of His friends’ betrayals and the anguish of His Heart in willingly suffering all for love of us. These penetrating meditations will enable you to enter more deeply into our Savior’s Passion through multiple vantage points.

This little book is sent forth with the earnest prayer that God may make it a blessing to all who are longing for a better apprehension of Christ and what he may be to them. There is no claim made in it to literary excellence; if any one should read it in search of this, he will find much in it to criticise. This is not in any sense a discussion. I have no contention with the brother who may differ with me; I only long to exalt Christ. The words were first spoken with a desire that they might be used of God to lead some one into closer fellowship with our Lord, and, now that they are to be ...

Unexpected twists and turns, plus a unique writing style sprinkled with humor assure that you'll stay engaged story after story in this collection of hundreds. Wayne Rolfs, husband of author Judith Rolfs, and father of four passes on words of wisdom and encouragement to his family members. He urges them to enjoy their Christian life and stay strong in their faith. The fascinating personal stories in thoughts For Today, Words For Tomorrow are guaranteed to stick in your brain long after you've finished reading. You'll discover intriguing little known facts about people, places and ...

Are you turned off by religion? You're not alone. Jesus was no fan either. In his seminal sermon, Jesus addresses life in the Kingdom of God. Jesus paints a picture that looks starkly different from how many perceive today's American church. Salt and Light: Meditations on the Sermon on the Mount is a 43-day journey through Jesus' best-known sermon. It explores how the entirety of scripture shines a light on Jesus' words, and how the culture, environment, and circumstances of Christ's world reveal clues as to their meaning.

This book will help you write great and effective eulogies to be used in funerals and memorial services. You will be given practical teaching on how to construct and what to include in your message so that those in the audience will leave the service with their spirits uplifted. You will know how to give a message that truly celebrates the life of the person.

By 1617, Donne had done it all. After being an MP, lawyer, womaniser, soldier, diplomat, father to twelve children by a secret wife, and the greatest poet of his age, he settled into the priesthood. Shortly thereafter, his wife died, prompting him to write a defence of suicide in God's eyes. She was soon followed by his 18 year old daughter died. Then Donne fell gravely ill. Physicians were called, but none could agree on what to do. It seemed certain that he would die.

“A RIGHTEOUS MAN REGARDETH THE LIFE OF HIS BEAST.” PROVERBS XII. 10. THE word regard is of two-fold signification, and may either apply to the moral or to the intellectual part of our nature. In the one application, the intellectual, it is the regard of attention. In the other, the moral, it is the regard of sympathy, or kindness. We do not marvel at this common term having been applied to two different things; for, in truth, they are most intimately associated; and the faculty by which a transition is accomplished from the one to the other, may be considered as the intermediate link ...

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” THERE is but one kind of armour, brethren, which, after all is done, proves of any value, and that is the armour of God. It is only through putting on of this that a man, or a nation, is able to do that which the Apostle desires here that the Ephesians maybe enabled to do—namely, “to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." It greatly behoves, therefore, all those who may believe that such an evil day is coming, earnestly to inquire ...

Forgetting those things which are behind. — Phil. 3:13 WE have here St. Paul's plan of life — progress by forgetting, by letting go, the things that are past. "Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal." This is such a wise theory of life that we may profitably study it a few minutes. "Forgetting the things which are behind." There are some things we would like to forget. Probably most of us have done things we would give much to leave behind, to blot out from memory, to cut altogether loose from, to bury in...

Throughout his thirty-seven years of parish ministry, Doctor Maynard wrote inspirational messages in the newsletter for the congregations he served. These columns were titled "Reflections From The Rector" or simply "Reflections". This book includes selected reflections from Church of the Epiphany in Richardson, Texas, Christ Church in Greenville, South Carolina, Saint Martin's Church in Houston, Texas, and Saint James by-the-Sea in La Jolla, California. Also included in this book are the final sermons he delivered in each parish as well as the celebration sermon he preached at Saint ...

"WHAT does God do all day?" once asked a little boy. One could wish that more grown-up people would ask so very real a question. Unfortunately, most of us are not even boys in religious intelligence, but only very unthinking children. It no more occurs to us that God is engaged in any particular work in the world than it occurs to a little child that its father does anything except be its father. Its father may be a Cabinet Minister absorbed in the nation's work, or an inventor deep in schemes for the world's good; but to this master-egoist he is father, and nothing more. Childhood, whether...

THERE are seasons in life when everything seems to shaking. Old landmarks are crumbling. Venerable foundations are up-heaved in a night, and are scattered abroad as dust. Guiding buoys snap their moorings, and go drifting down the channel. Institutions which promised to outlast the hills collapse like a stricken tent. Assumptions in which everybody trusted burst like air-balloons. Everything seems to lose its base, and trembles in uncertainty and confusion. Such seasons are known in our personal life. One day our circumstances appear to share the un-shaken solidity of the planet, and our ...