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No Little People
Most Christians take an honest look at themselves and conclude that their limited talents, energy, and knowledge mean that they don’t amount to much. Francis A. Schaeffer says that the biblical emphasis is quite different. With God there are no little people!
This book contains sixteen sermons that explore the weakness and significance of humanity in relationship to the in
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The first essay for which the book receives its name is simply excellent, it highlights the dignity of man and the Christian call to not only see his own life as important but the life of EVERY person around them as important.
Mar 30, 2013
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Good book. This book discusses the value that God has for all people and how he can use any one for His purposes through His strength.
Two of my favorite sermons "No little people, no little places" and "the lord's work in the lord's way" are in this collection
The book contains sixteen individual sermons on a variety of topics. I was not familiar with the author, and from the title I wondered if "no little people" involved building self-esteem or something. I was pleased to discover that the theme of the sermon is that when it comes to serving God, there are no little people. None of us we aren't worthy to do what God calls us to do. The Bible is filled with people who had weaknesses, yet God used them their weaknesses in their service to Him. All of...more
Mar 08, 2013
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'Francis Schaeffer was a Presbyterian minister with an ability to see how the questions of meaning, morals, and value being dealt with by philosophy, were the same questions that the Bible dealt with, only in different language. Once an agnostic, Schaeffer came to the conclusion that Biblical Christianity not only gave sufficient answers to the big questions, but that they were the only answers th...more
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“The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.”
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