F. D. Maurice

Sermons Preached in Country Churches

First published
1873
Length
98,000 words, about 7 hours' reading

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These are some of Maurice’s most accessible sermons. Delivered to ordinary village congregations, at Clyro and in other country churches, they explain profound Christian truths in plain, vivid language drawn from the Gospels, the Prayer Book, and everyday life.

Again and again Maurice points beyond religion as mere duty or moral effort to the living reality of Jesus Christ: the Healer who knows our need before we do, the Son of Man united to humanity, the King who already reigns. Faith, for Maurice, is not persuading God to love us but learning to trust the good reality God has already established in Christ.

Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Sermon I. The Pool of Bethesda
  3. Sermon II. The Gift of Hearing
  4. Sermon III. The Spirit of Love
  5. Sermon IV. Waiting for Christ
  6. Sermon V. St. Peter’s Conversion
  7. Sermon VI. The Sick of the Palsy
  8. Sermon VII. The Marriage Feast of the King’s Son
  9. Sermon VIII. The Redemption of the Body
  10. Sermon IX. The Spirit the Help to Prayer
  11. Sermon X. The Law of Inheritance
  12. Sermon XI. The Deliverer from Crime
  13. Sermon XII. St. John Baptist’s Day
  14. Sermon XIII. The Transfiguration
  15. Sermon XIV. The Publican
  16. Sermon XV. The Spirit and the Flesh
  17. Sermon XVI. Man’s Dominion
  18. Sermon XVII. God and Mammon
  19. Sermon XVIII. The Glory of the Cross
  20. Sermon XIX. The Widow of Nain’s Son
  21. Sermon XX. Justification
  22. Sermon XXI. Truth
  23. Sermon XXII. Ministers of Christ
  24. Sermon XXIII. The Light of the World
  25. Sermon XXIV. The Lord of the Winds and Sea
  26. Sermon XXV. The Man of Sorrows
  27. Sermon XXVI. St. Matthew’s Day
  28. Sermon XXVII. Michaelmas Day
  29. Sermon XXVIII. God’s Visitations
  30. Sermon XXIX. The Eternal Weight of Glory
  31. Sermon XXX. The Grace of God
  32. Sermon XXXI. The New Covenant
  33. Sermon XXXII. The Last Supper
  34. Sermon XXXIII. The Law of Liberty
  35. Sermon XXXIV. The Sure and Certain Hope
  36. Sermon XXXV. The Baptism of Repentance
  37. Sermon XXXVI. God’s Covenant with the Nations
  38. Sermon XXXVII. Life and Raiment
  39. Sermon XXXVIII. The House of God
  40. Sermon XXXIX. St. John the Evangelist’s Day
  41. Sermon XL. Suffering and Glory
  42. Sermon XLI. Repentance and Conversion