Articles
Behind every Encounter Press book stands a life. These articles introduce the historical figures and devotional classics our books recover — for the curious reader, the researcher, and the soul that suspects there is more.
Not Earned, but Entered: A Reader's Guide to The Nearness
The Godward Turn, union vs. communion, wintering, and why the presence of God is not earned but entered — a guide to the fourteen letters, with a glossary of the book's key terms.
Forming Room, Not Waiting Room: A Reader's Guide to The Interval
What the book teaches about degrees of reward in heaven, the Bema Seat, and why this life is a forming room, not a waiting room — with a glossary of its key terms.
Who Was Rebecca Ruter Springer?
The true story behind Intra Muros (My Dream of Heaven) — the 1898 vision of heaven that has comforted grieving readers for more than a century, and how to read it well.
Who Was Walter Beuttler?
The true story of the man who knew God: the German immigrant who nearly ended his life on the Brooklyn Bridge, taught at a small Pennsylvania Bible school for three decades, and carried the manifest presence of God to more than a hundred countries.
Who Was Gerhard Tersteegen?
The German Reformed mystic and hymn writer (1697–1769) — a ribbon weaver who became one of the most trusted spiritual counselors of eighteenth-century Europe.
Who Was Jean de Bernières?
The tax official of Caen (1602–1659) who trained a bishop, inspired Madame Guyon, gave away his fortune, went blind — and became France’s hidden master of prayer.
What Is The Spiritual Flower Garden? Tersteegen's Devotional Masterpiece, in English at Last
The story of the Geistliches Blumengärtlein (1729) — more than 1,300 poems, hymns, and spiritual aphorisms, now in complete English translation for the first time in nearly three centuries.