“ This book has the power, unlike so many other books, to take you beyond mere Christian sentimentality and teach you something of eternal value.”
From Ear to Heart – Sermons on Spiritual Formation
Author: Bishop Dr Robert Solomon. Edited by Tong Suit Chee
Published by: Graduates’ Christian Fellowship
180 pages, $15
Available through publisher, 420 North Bridge Road #05-04 North Bridge Centre
IF YOU HAVE MARVELLED at the way doctors know exactly what is needed for each ailment or even certain health conditions and diseases, this book takes it all to a whole new level.
Published by the Graduates’ Christian Fellowship, From Ear to Heart is a collection of 18 sermons by a medical doctor-turned-doctor of theology, Bishop Dr Robert Solomon of The Methodist Church in Singapore.
This spiritual physician’s prescriptions are sweet when put in the mouth of the human soul by the very fact that everything he says is true; but, once past mental assent, they prod the lazy spirit to pursue the path of true Christian spirituality, which is the road of bitter suffering, yet not without its attendant benefits – and how incomparably greater!
Slim as this book may be, it effectively bridges important gaps: between the there and then of the Bible, its characters and testimonies; and the here and now, between the culture of the Bible and the Singaporean culture.
In one area, though, it does not attempt to accommodate 21st century Singapore Christian moderns and what a very significant area: these sermons, given for a variety of settings, do not try to make the message of the Gospel any more acceptable than it is – and this is not very much – in the hearing of an outrageously relativist culture.
The Bishop presents the Gospel in all its blunt, unrefined offensiveness and political incorrectness.
Christians unwilling to receive the “death sentence” of the Gospel in full force and forsake the earthly comforts of this world are here forewarned not to digest this book: it has the power, unlike so many other books, to take you beyond mere Christian sentimentality and teach you something of eternal value.
For the rest of us, here is a spiritual doctor who knows to prescribe medicine for our terribly sick souls. – christianpost.com.sg
Edmond Chua is the Editor/Publisher of The Christian Post.
