Divine Spirit

Last month we noticed that "spirit" entered the story in the book of Acts quite a bit.  I'm sure readers will enjoy Elise Moore's helpful article from The Christian Science Monitor dated May 31, 2013,

Testimony Meetings - Healings today

It’s really great to be reading “Healing Spiritually” again.  It’s such a treasure trove of uplifting healings.  And I’m grateful to have them so thoughtfully arranged in four sections:

1.      Finding a path to spiritual healing;

2.      Healing and guidance in every stage of life;

3.      Gaining control over the unexpected; and

4.      Christian healing throughout life.

These are followed by “an invitation to learn more.” 

 

I know of a couple of recent Reading Room visitors who just love this book

An inspiration to the whole field

Joyce Voysey

We come to Paul’s adventure on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in being taken from Caesarea to Rome to be tried before Caesar.  Graphic details delight us, as does Paul’s consciousness that God is in control of every event of his career.  Didn’t he say that the ship should not have left Crete because there would be “much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives” but also, when that damage actually came to pass he predicted that there would be no loss of life, though the ship would be lost.  As it turned out when they hit (i.e. were shipwrecked) on Melita (Malta), where they spent three months and where Paul healed snakebite and the fever and “bloody flux” of an important man’s father.

And so on to Rome.