Austin: 1740 books

Fr. Austin Fleming is a pastor from Concord, Massachusetts, who decided eight years ago to start writing a blog featuring short daily prayers. From those beginnings, “A Concord Pastor Comments” has inspired hundreds of thousands of visitors across the country and the world. The appeal of his prayers...

There is no doubt whatever that Jesus created a revolution. Of course, some people would not have it, for it was too revolutionary for them. But others said: "Never man spake like this man" (John 7:46 - A.V.). And it is said of Him that "He taught them as having authority, and not as...

The Lord has to do things in relation to His Word in order to bring us into the good of it. Revelation is not only the study of the Scripture; it is our being wrought into it, sometimes by heartbreak, and having it wrought into us. Facts as facts have never yet constituted a messenger of God. Now,...

Heavenly things always govern all the earthly things. Invisible things govern all the visible things. Spiritual things govern all the temporal things. Universal things govern all the local things. That is something you must always remember when you are reading the Bible and that is something which must be kept in mind as we approach this book of Ezekiel.

Countless are the ways in which we can go up or go down almost any day, and many times in a day; and whether we go up or down depends entirely upon the measure of Christ that is in us, to which we have attained. If there is a large measure of Christ, then we shall be able to meet evil with good, and...

Union with Christ is the heart or center of all that has been revealed of God's thought concerning man and of man's relationship to God. Union with Christ is like the hub of a mighty wheel. There are many spokes to that wheel - election, creation, redemption, salvation, sanctification, glorification;...

You and I must come to the place where, in faith’s obedience, with a very small instrument, with something very insignificant from this world’s standpoint, we trust God, where God is the great factor and asset, and not the other resource which we have at our command. This is the way of usefulness....

The following messages are a free translation of a series of addresses held at our Motherhouse in October 1935 by T. Austin-Sparks. We are very thankful for the rich blessing, brought to wider circles of the Lord’s people, through the ministry of our brother. Our great desire, in presenting these addresses...

In the year 1939 we published two volumes on The Stewardship of the Mystery. Volume 1 covered wider ground ... Volume 2 was more specific in relation to Paul’s ministry and the Church. ...There has been a growing burden to put into writing the essence of that particular ministry of “The Mystery”...

There is a sovereignty behind the way in which the Lord deals with us in our lives here. In some cases there may be a very full and complete training along a certain line. In other cases, the way of the Lord's sovereign dealings with us may be different. Some He has led this way and some that. Some...

A recent survey discovered that one-tenth of the U.S. population has a sincere Christian faith and made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, but don’t attend church. The number is increasing, up from 7% a decade ago. What’s going on? “Why I Quit Going to Church” is one man’s explanation...

"When the Son of man cometh, shall he find the faith on the earth?" (Luke 28:8). The question does not relate to what is called in general "the Christian faith." There will be plenty of the Christian faith on the earth. The Lord Jesus would have been a bad prophet, and have had...

We can never understand Pentecost, the advent of the Holy Spirit, until we recognise that it is by the coming in of the Holy Spirit, and only so, that God gets the "man" that He has ever intended to have. The purpose of man's creation was that he should be a child of God, that men should...

Let us recognise once and for all that the Cross is not a specific line of teaching, not a department of teaching, not an isolated message in an unbalanced emphasis, but the all-comprehending and all-including and all-explaining centre of the universe. That is the Centrality of the Cross, and you...