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 4
... words you use about it , the recovery of your health , or the saving of your fortune , seems to you a piece of luck , some good thing which has dropped down upon you from the clouds , then you may be meanly and miserably selfish about ...
... words you use about it , the recovery of your health , or the saving of your fortune , seems to you a piece of luck , some good thing which has dropped down upon you from the clouds , then you may be meanly and miserably selfish about ...
Pagina 8
... word , if what I thank Him for most is not that He gives me his gifts , but that He gives me Himself , then I cannot re- sist the tendency of that mercy to outgrow my life . The more spiritual is a man's religion , the more expansivé ...
... word , if what I thank Him for most is not that He gives me his gifts , but that He gives me Himself , then I cannot re- sist the tendency of that mercy to outgrow my life . The more spiritual is a man's religion , the more expansivé ...
Pagina 17
... words more wonderful than those . There was the power by which He was holy ; the world was to be made holy , was to be sanctified through Him . I am sure that you or I could indeed be strengthened to meet some great experience of pain ...
... words more wonderful than those . There was the power by which He was holy ; the world was to be made holy , was to be sanctified through Him . I am sure that you or I could indeed be strengthened to meet some great experience of pain ...
Pagina 31
... word you need , which shall explain this terrible sep- aration from your Father , which , while you give your- selves with all your souls to Him , still keeps you shut out from His communion . I cannot tell you all you want to know ...
... word you need , which shall explain this terrible sep- aration from your Father , which , while you give your- selves with all your souls to Him , still keeps you shut out from His communion . I cannot tell you all you want to know ...
Pagina 32
... words , leaving theological subtleties alone , just trying to turn what it knew of Christ into a life , it has found- what He promised that it has become assured of His divinity , sure that His doctrine was of God . Such souls have not ...
... words , leaving theological subtleties alone , just trying to turn what it knew of Christ into a life , it has found- what He promised that it has become assured of His divinity , sure that His doctrine was of God . Such souls have not ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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Populaire passages
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,