Unspoken Sermons

George MacDonald never delivered these sermons from a pulpit. He wrote them instead, three series across two decades, as extended meditations on scripture that read more like essays than homilies. His subject is the character of God, whom he insists is a loving Father rather than a judge to be feared, and he returns again and again to obedience, humility, and the childlike trust he thought lay at the heart of real faith. The prose is dense and searching, willing to argue with received doctrine, and it left a deep mark on later readers, C.S. Lewis chief among them, who credited MacDonald with shaping his own conversion. A free PDF and EPUB edition are available here.