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Daily Open Windows: Excerpts from the Messages of T. Austin-Sparks
Theodore Austin-Sparks (1888-1971) left behind a treasury of messages filled with the Wisdom, Life and Revelation of Christ. This book contains short daily portions from a selection of these messages. In his own words, “Perhaps this is just like a window opened into heaven. If you get the right window you can see quite a lot. You can see great things and you can see far things. But the best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else, and how superior is the dispensation into which we have come, and how superior are all the resources at our disposal to all that ever was before!” (This e-book can be downloaded for free at Austin-Sparks.Net)
524 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 11, 2013
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July 29, 2020
“The Kingdom is so much bigger than conversion.”
366 meditations on Christianity from the writings of a largely forgotten early twentieth-century British Christian evangelist. Each reading is self-contained and sufficient for both the dedicated worshiper and the inquirer, but assumes the reader a Christian. Exhortation over evangelism; holiness before works.
“The key to faith is this dividing of soul and spirit, or, in other words, the complete abnegation of self-interests.”
Austin-Sparks basic message involves Christian growth after conversion. He represents the strand of western Protestantism which returned to the basic Christian message or divided the church, depending on point of view. His ministry had a global impact.
“What, in the thought of God do Christians exist for? What does the Church exist for? There is only one answer … to be an expression of Christ. It is a reproduction of Christ by the Holy Spirit. Man cannot make, form, produce or ‘establish’ this.”
Quibble: the publishers seem to have been driven by a quantity-first measure. Many passages wander. Several could have been divided in two.
“So long as we are in line with God’s purpose His work can go on in us. What matters is not first of all our activity. God is more concerned with what is done in us than what we do for Him.”
(This review is of the paperback, but the cover shows on the kindle edition only.)
366 meditations on Christianity from the writings of a largely forgotten early twentieth-century British Christian evangelist. Each reading is self-contained and sufficient for both the dedicated worshiper and the inquirer, but assumes the reader a Christian. Exhortation over evangelism; holiness before works.
“The key to faith is this dividing of soul and spirit, or, in other words, the complete abnegation of self-interests.”
Austin-Sparks basic message involves Christian growth after conversion. He represents the strand of western Protestantism which returned to the basic Christian message or divided the church, depending on point of view. His ministry had a global impact.
“What, in the thought of God do Christians exist for? What does the Church exist for? There is only one answer … to be an expression of Christ. It is a reproduction of Christ by the Holy Spirit. Man cannot make, form, produce or ‘establish’ this.”
Quibble: the publishers seem to have been driven by a quantity-first measure. Many passages wander. Several could have been divided in two.
“So long as we are in line with God’s purpose His work can go on in us. What matters is not first of all our activity. God is more concerned with what is done in us than what we do for Him.”
(This review is of the paperback, but the cover shows on the kindle edition only.)
July 6, 2019
T A Sparks writings have transformed my spiritual life more than any other author on this earth. You must have a Holy Spirit and a desire for truth, not religiosity, to appreciate his writings!
T A Sparks writings have transformed my spiritual life more than any other author on this earth. You must have the Holy Spirit and a desire for truth, disregarding religiosity, to appreciate his writings!
Indeed Manna from Heaven!
T A Sparks writings have transformed my spiritual life more than any other author on this earth. You must have the Holy Spirit and a desire for truth, disregarding religiosity, to appreciate his writings!
Indeed Manna from Heaven!
January 8, 2025
good book
life and soul guidelines, must have.
Austin Sparks, God opens his eyes for leading us to the eternity. This book talks to me when I am in the death valley.
life and soul guidelines, must have.
Austin Sparks, God opens his eyes for leading us to the eternity. This book talks to me when I am in the death valley.
January 9, 2017
A tremendous resource !
December 31, 2024
This is one of the best daily sources of encouragement after the Holy Bible itself. I have read this daily for about 5 years and will continue to do so.
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