Bøker av James Allan Francis

When we turn to a very familiar passage in the Bible, we are always in danger of thinking that, because we know it by heart, we really know it. May I ask you, for a little while, to rethink one of the most familiar passages in the whole Book and, as far as such a thing is possible, to think of it freshly as if you had never heard or seen it before. I refer to the passage commonly known as "The Lord's Prayer."When our hearts are so melted by the Spirit's gracious power that we pray this prayer with fullness of meaning, we are allowing ourselves to be poured into his mould and will come out bearing more distinctly his image.

WHAT would the thoughtful and reverent Christian of today not give for a sure enough close-up look at Christ Jesus as he walked among men? This is not finding fault with the Gospels but with the mass of tradition, church dogma, and what not, that has accumulated since that first century and in the mind of the church obscures the Real Jesus.Yet we know that the only way to make him co-temporary with all the centuries is to see him in the century in which he lived. More progress has been made in the last generation in recovering the Real Saviour for human faith, than in any half dozen generations before our time.These sermons, preached amid the pressing duties of a busy pastorate, and taken down in shorthand by a friend, represent another attempt to go back and live anew those days with Him. The old cry, "We would see Jesus" is in our hearts. If, in its limited way, this volume will help to do this for its reader the author will be grateful beyond words.Original 1926 reprint edition.