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God’s Garden
Just as the garden has seasons, so does our spiritual life. Sometimes it is like spring filled with new life and promise. Other times, like summer and fall, there are abundance and harvest. Yet other times like winter, we experience barrenness and bleakness.
Virginia Schurman
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Letters to a Friend, on some of the Primitive Doctrines of Christianity
John Wilbur (1774-1856) wrote letters to George Crosfield stating the reasons for rejecting trends among Friends that have been labeled “Hicksite” and “Gurneyite.” The letters are a plea for a Christian faith founded both on the outward, atoning work of Jesus on the cross, and on the inward, transforming work of Christ in the human…
John Wilbur (1774-1856)
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Living in the Spirit: What One Quaker Has Learned
A list of lessons that the author has learned about God, Jesus, the Scriptures, and worship.
Roger Dreisbach-Williams
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Love in Action
Love in action begins with the wonderful love of God, a love which reaches out to embrace all people and to embrace all of creation. By experiencing God ourselves, we become transformed and radiate God’s love.
Virginia Schurman
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Maranatha!
Do we as Quakers summon our Lord with expectant urgency? Are we doing as he has commanded us to do?
Charles Subock
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Mind the Heavenly Treasure
Thoughts for each day from the Scriptures and the eight volumes of the writings of George Fox. Includes volumes and page numbers for Fox quotations.
compiled by Gary Bowell
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My Friend God
My Friend God can be your Friend, too. God is always with us. We need to learn to be quiet and still to hear God.
Christine Greenland
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The Beatitudes: Pathways of Living in True Joy and Peace
The teachings of Jesus called Beatitudes, recorded in Matthew and Luke, are an invitation to a way of living that brings true happiness and inward and outward peace.
Virginia Schurman
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Inner Peace and the Right Use of Media: Reflections on Thomas Shillitoe’s Advice
What does it take to keep inward peace, stay gathered and near the Guide? Drayton follows the advice of Thomas Shillitoe to suggest that we yield our lives, and media, to the Holy Spirit.
Brian Drayton
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The Gathered Meeting
The ground and foundation of a gathered meeting is the real presence of God. We need to be prepared to enter worship and to be open to being spoken through and prayed through.
Thomas R. Kelly