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LIVELY LESSONS IN SPIRITUAL SERVICE
Friendship, Fervent and not Farcical, with Christ
Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson
Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
October 2009
ISBN 978-0-9806750-8-5
PREFACE
This is NOT a book about how marvellous this or that person is, has been or is likely to be, except incidentally perhaps with regard to future generics or passing actions on this earth. It IS about ACTUALITIES, chiefly as found in the Bible, about what is and is not spiritual service, what is the rot for the heart and the life for it, what is savoury and unsavoury, difficult yet worthwhile and where treacherous shoals lie.
Above all, since service is a result of friendship with Christ on HIS terms, since after all He is God who became man that man might become a friend of no less a Being that God Himself, it is about His ways and ours, and the fruitfulness that results from love, not mere performance, with grace, not mere trumpeting, efficacy, not mere effort, abiding and obedience, not divergence from the precision of the word of God, to displace, dispel or to compromise it, as is the custom of many. Predicted as found, and found as predicted, such developments are to be taken as might be disease syndrome and the arrival of late symptoms. How is that ? Treat the patient carefully, with premeditated procedures and strong doses of truth, liquid refreshment of mercy and an apt dose of realisation.
We do not face merely something wrong, but the very devil's song, an animated dirge, and digressive surge. The foundations in Christ and His word must therefore be acutely pursued, resolutely applied and by His Spirit, found in their strength.
CONTENTS
Lively Lessons in Spiritual Service
Your God whom You Serve Continually
Going With God
and Not with Humanist Pseudo-Holiness
Esther - The Lively Queen for the Living Lord
Going with God:
skirting the Swamp, and the Pomp,
and Seeking to Please Him
FIDELITY AND FELLOWSHIP
A CLARIFICATION AND A CALL
BOLDNESS FOR THE FAITH: CARE FOR THE WORD OF GOD
LIVELY WORK IN CREATION, ITS
SURGES AND ITS DANGERS,
ITS VALUE AND ITS RESTRAINTS
SUCCEEDING IS ONLY A BEGINNING: IT MUST ALSO BE RIGHT
Lively Lessons include Lessons on the Avoidance
of Lifelessness by Hapless Harmony with the Unholy
News 424
The Australian September 21, 2009
On p. 9 of The Australian we find a piece
of mundane spiritual news.A religious Parliament no less!
Lessons on Lessening and Growing
Mutative Dynamics
The Politics of Power that Lowers
Unruly Ruling and the Regality of Majesty
Poverty,
Internationality, Sexuality and Prodigality:
Ridden for Ruin
Line 2 above
is not low-er, as if to make more low, but lowers,
to rhyme with power and to manifest threatening gloom.
THE GLORY OF RESURRECTION
Immutable Reliability,
Victorious Viability,
Effective Defiance, Ejective Deliverance
Immortality ? yes, and a body for it and a life in it
RATIONALE, RATIONALITY, RATIONALISM AND REALITY:
SUFFERING AND SALVATION HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
NEITHER LITANY NOR LITURGY
BUT DEALING WITH DEITY
Malachi 1:10-11, 3:13-18