In My Father's House Are Many Mansions

Essays & Sermons by Robert Paul Starbuck, Mdiv, PhD.As an ordained United Methodist Church minister for over fifty-five years, and practicing psychotherapist for over forty years, Robert P. Starbuck never read the Bible in a literal way. As a clergy, he saw the beloved Bible stories, readings, and lessons, as a way of wisdom. And as a way of being and becoming; a way of renewal, redemption, reconciliation, forgiveness, and spiritual enlightenment. He saw them as something to be taught and celebrated as sacred literature and scripture pointing humankind towards a much higher truth and experience of the divine. A way that points us towards an intimate and eternal relationship with the divine that is ours to claim, a new being and a new creation. As a clergy he believed in and administered the sacraments of the church. He believed in the Ultimate Divine Mystery and Love of God actively at work within the world. He was able to live in this mystery, to accept it fully and completely, and came to realize early in his adult life what Jesus was ultimately teaching humankind was to love God, yourself, and others as yourself. We find this in the two greatest commandments of Christ.

• | Author: Robert Paul Starbuck, Ron Starbuck
• | Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 148 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1732054223
• | ISBN-13: 9781732054226