Spiritual Counsel from George Müller on Nourishing The Soul

George_MullerThis minisode features the reading of an excerpt from the autobiography of the 19th century pastor, evangelist and orphanage founder George Müller. In this reading, George Müller gives his spiritual advice on how to nourish one’s soul, namely, on the meditating on the Word of God.

A link to this excerpt can be found here at Bible.org.

A link to a pdf detailing the devotional life of George Müller can be found here.

A link to John Piper’s lecture on how George Müller’s strategy for showing God can be found here from DesiringGod.org..

Excerpt from “The City of God” by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Augustine by CarpaccioThis minisode features a sample of text written in the early 5th century by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, in north Africa. The text which is read is from Book 19 Chapter 20 of “The City of God.”

In this rather massive book, written after the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 A.D., Augustine makes the case that the abandonment of the old Roman gods did not lead to this crisis. Rather, Augustine contrasts the City of Man (Earthly ways of conducting life) with the City of God (Heavenly ways of conducting life).

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An Excerpt from Looking Unto Jesus by Isaac Ambrose

Isaac AmbroseThis minisode features the reading of an excerpt from the 17th century devotional “Looking Unto Jesus” by Isaac Ambrose. This book was, for several centuries, considered a devotional classic among English-speaking followers of Christ. The excerpt begins to explore the importance of the Ascension of Christ and what He is doing right now, being seated (“the session of Christ”) at the right hand of God the Father.

Free PDF of Looking Unto Jesus from an 1815 printing (digitized in the library of the University of Toronto) can be found here

Archive.org link to Looking Unto Jesus can be found here 

Link to Amazon site for a hardcopy version of Looking Unto Jesus can be found here 

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