Silence and speech -- God thirst and alcoholic thirst -- Disease and sin -- Sin and disease -- Body and spirit -- Power and powerless -- Grace and brokenness -- God and the self -- Journey and home.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141).
PART 4: ACTS OF CONSCIENCE: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE-4.1; By What Authority? The Bible and Civil Disobedience-4.2: With All Due Respect: A Historical Perspective on Civil Disobedience-4.3: The Cleansing of the Temple: Jesus and Symbolic Action-4.4: Divine Obedience: A Letter to the Minister of Justice-Epilogue: Hope-Contributors.
Contents: Housekeeping : the parable of the leaven -- Rewards : the parable of the hidden treasure -- Excellence : the parable of the pearl merchant -- Retirement : the parable of the rich fool -- Fairness : the parable of workers in the vineyard -- Waste : the parable of the prodigal son -- Fulfillment : the parable of the mustard seed -- Success : the parable of the secretly growing seed -- P…
Why? Why? Why? -- The Message from Stephen and Paul -- A Crack in the Curtain -- The Museum in Heaven: Rectangle A -- The Museum's Other Section: Rectangle B - Cracked Teapots -- "Tribulation Worketh Patience" -- The Refining Process -- School for Comforters -- Affliction and Evangelism-Affliction and Guidance -- Aborting Affliction -- Practicing Contentment or What Comes Next?
Encountering God -- Intimacy, art and meditation -- The climate of meditation -- The spiritual world as the soul's soil -- Cracking the husk : man's need for God -- To whom do we pray? -- The creative power of love -- A word of warning and encouragement -- Time -- Silence : discovering the way inward -- Aids in the pratice of silence -- Silence, mysticism and religious experience -- Exploring t…
Winter journey: the absence -- Texts for the wintry way -- The slanting toward solstice -- Spirit at the solstice -- The enemy in the dead of winter -- January thaw: a hint of presence -- The season of abandonment -- Winterfallow: patience for community and hope.
A Case for Caring -- Developing Your Skills of Evaluation -- Getting Started -- Nurturing the Relationship -- Self-knowledge and Responding to Loss -- Warning Signals and Referral -- Sharing in Everyday Life -- Strength for Caring.
Originally published: Dallas : Word Pub., ©1991. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-311).
Introduction -- Likings and loves for the sub-human -- Affection -- Friendship -- Eros -- Charity. Abstract Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity. In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love -- affection, friendship, erotic love, a…
1. The Ground of all Forgiveness -- 2. Christ's Dying Prayer -- 3. If We Confess Our Sins -- 4. Put That on my Account -- 5. Forgiving One Another -- 6. Just as God Has Forgiven You -- 7. If Your Brother Sins -- 8. The Blessings of Forgiveness -- 9. Answering the Hard Questions about Forgiveness -- Appendix One: How Are We to Understand the Atonement? -- Appendix Two: What is the Unforgivable S…
A future and a hope -- Always, there is hope -- Mind your head and serve the King! -- The hopeful thinkers' prayer -- The door of hope -- Hope in hard times -- The anchor of hope -- The music and the words -- Hopefully yours -- How to be happy all of the time. Abstract For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you A FUTURE AND A HOPE.
What is anger? -- Managing your anger -- Why can't you just love me? -- Feeling controlled causes anger -- Myths that perpetuate anger -- Self-inflicted anger -- How pride influences anger -- Fear's effect on anger -- Loneliness creates anger -- Anger reflects inferiority feelings -- Managing a child's anger -- Why anger lingers -- Being accountable. Abstract Analyzes anger and describes ho…
Acknowledgements -- A brief and biased view of moral history -- What is wrong? -- The disappearance of sin: an eyewitness account -- A new social morality -- Sin into crime -- Sin into symptom -- Sin as collective irresponsibility -- The old seven deadly sins (and some new ones) -- Sin, so what? -- The bluebird on the dung heap -- Epilogue: the displaced preface -- index. Abstract An examin…