4-2-1968   I hope tonight will be very, very practical. The most profound story really is. We know that the Bible is vision from beginning to end, all vision, the vision of the Lord God. No one will thwart it and we are all going to experience it. On this level, we can really apply it to the most practical vision in the world. In two weeks the Western world will be told the story…

Tonight’s subject is . . “Whom God Has Afflicted.” “Whom God has afflicted for Secret Ends, He comforts and Heals and calls them Friends.’ [Blake, from “The Everlasting Gospel”] In the 119th Psalm it says “This my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life. Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep thy word. It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.”…

1/29/65   Tonight’s subject is “The Womb of the Universe.” You and I are called upon to experience scripture. Every word of scripture is true, every word. I know the great scholars of the world look upon it as myth, and they say the entire story is simply a myth. I tell you it is true, every word is true. Tonight we will take two words of scripture. A word of scripture is not necessarily…

02-03-1969   You have within you a wonder working power! To understand this power, let us turn to the Book of Joshua, where we are told: “Wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, I have given you.” The Hebrew form of the word “Joshua” is Yad He Vav [corr. Yod Hey Vav Shin Hey, pron. Ye-ho-SHOO-ah] and means, “Jehovah saves”. So you see, Joshua is not promising another, but himself! Jehovah leads the dance…

1/22/65   A miracle is the name give by those who have no faith to the works of faith. So the important question is not did Jesus work miracles in Galilee, but is he miraculously present, miraculously potent now? The answer we give to the second question is the only important answer, really. If we cannot give to the second question a confident and adoring yes, it doesn’t really matter what we say of the…

11-10-1959   Here we believe firmly that imagining is God, that the Supreme Power of the Universe is one with human imaging. So when you read the Bible . . a fabulous, inspired book . . and you come to the word “God,” you can also use the word “imagining” and you will get a clearer understanding of it. Romans 4:20: “No distrust made Abraham waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong…

05-02-1969   Tonight I want you to think of Christ as a cosmic being who contains everyone within him. Having died for all, this one being is in all, and will rise in all. Only one being can rise, for only one being fell. Having deliberately destroyed his temple in the fall, God, (this one being) is rebuilding his temple out of the redeemed, in order for it to become something far greater than it…

03-29-1963   “You Can Forgive Sin.” That, to most people, will be blasphemy as you will hear later on, quoting from scripture. It is so common among all of us to ascribe our ills and troubles to outward things . . like the present conditions of the world, to our environment, or simply to things. And these things may be things that are absent from our world, or things we have in our world, but…

03-10-1969   A man can never outgrow or lose the God he knows in a first person, present tense experience. And when he finds this God he tells his brothers, saying: “If I had not come and spoken to you, you would have no sin, but now you have no excuse for your sins.” God reveals himself to man as his eternal contemporary, saying: “Unless you believe that I AM He, you will die in…

06-19-1970   Spiritual growth is a gradual transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. In Blake’s works . . one of his letters, rather (23 August 1799) . . he had this little difference of opinion with the Dr. Reverend Trusler; and Trusler said to him, “You need someone to elucidate your ideas.” Blake wrote him a letter saying, “You ought to know that what can be made explicit to the…