No Little People: Sixteen Sermons for the 20th Century

by Francis A. Schaeffer

Book Overview

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 infinite and personal God. Each was preached by Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877847657
• ISBN13: 9780877847656
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: IVP Books
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful, powerful sermons

Schaeffer never ceases to fail to bring God's word into our hearts. Through these sermons, given at the L'Abri chapel, and throughout Europe, and many other countries, are messages for the twentieth century----and now. With God, there are no little people. The focus: 1) Humbled leaders----where Schaffer says, "if in any of our relationships of life we demand perfection or nothing, we will have nothing." 2) A personal God 3) Sweeping away modernism to find Gods truth----and he says here, "the Christian must always say, 'I want the state and society to have its proper place. But if it tries to come into the center of my life, I am against it because Jesus only is there'." 4) Workings of the Holy Spirit 5) Humanism 6) Joseph 7) OT tabernacle 8) David----good and bad 9) Elijah/Elisha----great and minor prophet 10) Christ rescuing the three men from the furnace 11) The Christmas story 12) Jesus----centered on Him 13) Christ----the water of life 14) Revelation----in brief 15) The true God, and finally 16) Materialism----where is your treasure----where he discusses the traps that we Christians can fall into, what he calls "practical materialism": "We all tend to live 'ash heap lives'; we spend most of our time and money for things that will end up in the city dump." And, "Let me say with tears that as far as material possessions, time, energy, and talents are concerned, all too many Bible-believing Christians live as though their entire existence is limited to this side of the grave." to eat, to breathe to beget Is this all there is Chance configuration of atom against atom of god against god I cannot believe it. Come, Christian Triune God who lives, Here am I Shake the world again. F.A.S. Wish you well Scott

A Good Read

This is truly a good read. It is what I have personally come to expect from Francis Schaeffer. It is a bit disjointed, but that is because that is what it is intended to be (a collection of different sermons). It essentially hinges on the idea that with God "there are no little people or little places". I found it interesting, inspiring, and a worthwhile read.