Unspoken Sermons, Second Series
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
The second volume Unspoken Sermons presents practical studies on the nature of Christian life, prayer, the book of Job, and self-denial. MacDonald’s sermons are arranged in a progressive series, building upon one another. MacDonald is more concerned with a person developing a love of God than developing dogmas. His sermons focus more on doing the will of God than on believing true things about God.
Top Highlights
“So might I imagine a thousand steps up from the darkness, each a little less dark, a little nearer the light—but, ah, the weary way! He cannot come out until he have paid the uttermost farthing!” (Page 137)
“the moment which coincides with work to be done, is the moment to be minded; the next is nowhere till God has made it.” (Page 55)
“‘The spirit of adoption’ Luther translates ‘the spirit of a child;’ adoption he translates kindschaft, or childship.’” (Page 147)
“The idea that God would be God all the same, as glorious as he needed to be, had he not taken upon himself the divine toil of bringing home his wandered children, had he done nothing to seek and save the lost, is false as hell. Lying for God could go no farther.” (Pages 225–226)
“I protest, therefore, against all such teaching as, originating in and fostered by the faithlessness of the human heart, gives the impression that the exceeding goodness of God towards man is not the natural and necessary outcome of his being.” (Page 225)