The Purpose and Use of ComfortCosimo, Inc., 1 okt 2007 - 384 pagina's One of the most popular American preachers of the 19th century, Episcopalian bishop Phillips Brooks was famous-and beloved-for his collections of sermons. The Purpose and Use of Comfort, first published in 1878, includes the title sermon as well as: . "The Withheld Completions of Life." "The Conqueror from Edom." "Keeping the Faith." "The Soul's Refuge in God." "The Man with One Talent." "Is It I?." "The Food of Man." "The Symbol and the Reality." and more.American clergyman PHILLIPS BROOKS (1835-1893) is also the author of Bohlen Lectures on The Influence of Jesus (1879) and Sermons Preached in English Churches (1883), but he is best remembered for writing the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem." |
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Pagina 7
... spiritual of His mercies . If what I am in the habit of thanking God for is mainly food and clothes and house , it will not be easy for me to realize the deepest purpose for which God gives me those THE PURPOSE AND USE OF COMFORT . 7.
... spiritual of His mercies . If what I am in the habit of thanking God for is mainly food and clothes and house , it will not be easy for me to realize the deepest purpose for which God gives me those THE PURPOSE AND USE OF COMFORT . 7.
Pagina 8
... spiritual strength , the way in which He helps me bear pain , resist temptation , and feed upon spiritual joy , — in one word , if what I thank Him for most is not that He gives me his gifts , but that He gives me Himself , then I ...
... spiritual strength , the way in which He helps me bear pain , resist temptation , and feed upon spiritual joy , — in one word , if what I thank Him for most is not that He gives me his gifts , but that He gives me Himself , then I ...
Pagina 11
... spiritual richness and strength . This was something that St. Paul knew well . Only two chapters later in this same epistle there comes the great verse where he describes it . " Though our outward man perish , yet the inward man is ...
... spiritual richness and strength . This was something that St. Paul knew well . Only two chapters later in this same epistle there comes the great verse where he describes it . " Though our outward man perish , yet the inward man is ...
Pagina 12
... spiritual through the broken physical life other men may learn its value . This is what makes the sick rooms and the mar tyr fires reasonable . In them has been made manifest by suffering that the soul is really more than the body ...
... spiritual through the broken physical life other men may learn its value . This is what makes the sick rooms and the mar tyr fires reasonable . In them has been made manifest by suffering that the soul is really more than the body ...
Pagina 18
... spiritual lives and ex- periences more recognizable and certain things . Not by mere moods , not by how I feel to - day or how I felt yes terday , may I know whether I am indeed living the life of God , but only by knowing that God is ...
... spiritual lives and ex- periences more recognizable and certain things . Not by mere moods , not by how I feel to - day or how I felt yes terday , may I know whether I am indeed living the life of God , but only by knowing that God is ...
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THE CONSOLATIONS OF | 98 |
VIII | 138 |
IX | 157 |
UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD | 174 |
XI | 193 |
AN EASTER SERMON | 210 |
IS IT I? | 247 |
THE FOOD OF MAN | 265 |
THE SYMBOL AND THE REALITY | 282 |
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Pagina 74 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast given unto us thy servants grace by the confession of a true faith to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
Pagina 39 - And I looked, and there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold : Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; And my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, And make them drunk in my fury, And I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Pagina 3 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Pagina 20 - Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
Pagina 53 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Pagina 317 - I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ ; which is far better ; nevertheless to abide, in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith, that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
Pagina 192 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,