I Am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters With Jesus - Softcover

Sparrow, G. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802727034 ISBN 13: 9780802727039

Publisher: Christian Large Print, 1996

Synopsis

They are ordinary people from all walks of life, all ages and different religions. Yet they share an extraordinary secret that most have been reluctant to reveal except to their closest friends and relatives: they have seen, touched, heard, or even spoken to Jesus at a pivotal moment in their lives - and come away transformed. Dr. Gregory Scott Sparrow is a psychotherapist who has been collecting stories of Christ encounters for more than five years and has traveled across America talking about his own encounters with Jesus. He has written a deeply inspiring and profoundly moving book that offers not only his own experiences of a loving, healing, personal Jesus but the vivid true-life accounts of other men, women, and children whose lives have been touched by a Jesus who is closer than we usually realize. From descriptions of dramatic near-death encounters to miraculous healings of mind and body, and from unexpected meetings on busy side streets to sacred encounters in quiet rooms, people reveal the remarkable Christ encounters that until now they have kept as personal treasures. Their reports are joyous or serene, uplifting or unsettling. But they are invariably life-changing - lifting burdens and offering hope and the power to change or bestowing a new understanding of the nature of life and faith. As Dr. Sparrow writes in his introduction to the book, "Jesus Christ occupies a uniquely important place in our spiritual, cultural, and psychological lives, regardless of what we profess to believe. As many of the recipients of these experiences have discovered, one does not have to believe any particular thing about Christ in order to find him deeply involved in our most life-changingexperiences".

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From the Inside Flap:

ith You Always is a stunning collection of first-person accounts of everyday people who have had visitations from Jesus that have saved or transformed their lives.  From dramatic healing encounters during near-death experiences to gentle reminders to live a spiritual life, these encounters span a wide spectrum of experience.  Yet each seems to have one central purpose: Jesus appears to those whose lives need spiritual attention, growth, or healing.  In his enlightening commentary on these experiences, Dr. Sparrow describes the spiritual nature of these remarkable stories, discusses their legitimacy, and offers a dramatic new vision of life and faith. I Am With You Always is a thought-provoking and illuminating look into transformational revelation.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From Booklist:

For the past five years, transpersonal psychotherapist G. Scott Sparrow has collected and studied accounts of contemporary face-to-face encounters with Christ, including his own. In spite of the subtitle, he wisely refrains from any narrowly defined attempt to assess the objective truth of the encounters, opting instead to focus on their subjective experiential authenticity. In many cases, they have had profound impact on the persons reporting them, and in some cases they have the potential of profound impact on persons reading them. For the most part, the book simply reports the encounters, though Sparrow does provide interesting commentary that places them in a history of Christian encounter stories beginning with Mary Magdalene. He organizes the material into broad categories--awakening, physical healing and consolation, emotional healing, initiation, and spiritual instruction--that could prove useful as heuristic devices for the study of contemporary mystical experience. But the interest of the book lies more in its raw material than in its theoretical insight. Steve Schroeder

About this edition

• Publisher: Christian Large Print
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802727034
• ISBN 13: 9780802727039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368