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The book was written by a young Scottish minister named Henry Scougal, who died at only 28 years of age. Published anonymously in 1677, it was originally a tender letter of spiritual direction to a female friend, Lady Gilmour, and it retains the warmth and directness of this personal correspondence. When we read it today, it feels like listening in...
A clue to the importance of this book is that Whitefield says it taught him “true religion.” For all his earnestness and discipline, for all his religious observance and sincerity, he had still not discovered the central reality about being a Christian. As he read this book, he was surprised to find that his religious duties were not regarded by Sc...
A great spiritual classic not only tells you what ought to be, but it also helps you to desire it. Part of the power of Scougal’s book lies here. In the second part, he paints a compelling picture of the beauty of the divine life: it is what we have really been longing for all our lives, if we only knew it — what in fact we were made for. He unders...
Scougal also offers practical counsel on sustaining life in union with God. All heaven is engaged on our behalf and stands ready to support us. “Why should we think it impossible that true goodness and universal love should ever . . . prevail in our souls?” (96). And there are steps we can take. “We must not lie loitering in the ditch,” he says, “a...
Jonathan Edwards began his great treatise on the Religious Affectionsby saying that there was no question of greater importance to mankind than this: “What is the nature of true religion?” He had read Scougal, and I wonder if he was thinking of this book as he wrote. Scougal gave what is still one of the best and simplest answers to this question. ...
1. A New Relationship. The life of God in the soul of man brings about a new relationship to God and his Son. In the last part of verse 9 Paul says, "Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him." In other words the fundamental effect of having the Spirit is that he makes you belong to Christ.
- Tripartite or Bipartite. One way to view our nature is that we have a material part, our body, and an immaterial part, our soul and/or spirit. A frequently held view is that we have a bipartite nature where the “soul” and “spirit” are taken as different terms for the same entity.
- Our Body. It is by our body that we function. It’s comprised of organs and cells which consists of protein carbohydrates and fats. Our body contains our nervous system with nerves and the brain.
- Our Soul. Our soul is what gives us our personality and it’s through our soul that we live out our relationship with God, with other people and with our self.
- Our Spirit. It’s in our spirit that we have meaning and purpose in life. At the deepest level our spirit gives us meaning and purpose and our spirit enables us to love one another, our self and God.
by Craig Rennebohm. A minister’s stories about his work with the homeless and mentally ill and a discussion of our need for healing communitiesSince 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people on the streets of Seattle who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God he tells the evocative stories ...
- Craig Rennebohm
- 2008
The preface of Souls in the Hands of a Tender God informs the reader that the stories presented have been collected over 30 years of Rennebohm’s ministry with homeless individuals who have suffered while contending with the onslaught of severe and chronic mental illness. I read every story in the book, and I even reread some of them, recognizing the significant objective the authors set.
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The Tender Mercy of God. “To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”—. Luke i. 77— 79.
