This past week has been devoted to recovering from sickness and sermon preparation. Consequently, my aim at reading, ingesting and appropriating the savory content of Tozer’s Pursuit had been temporarily postponed. In my quest to internalize Tozer’s powerful primer on worship, the following are a few thoughts on his chapter Restoring the Creator – Creature […]
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Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. I Corinthians 10:31 In the last chapter of The Pursuit of God, Tozer does not bid the reader a joyful benediction in his quest to chase down God. He closes in a blaze as he prophesy’s against the
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But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. ~ Matthew 12:36 In an hour of an unprecedented war of words, those who seek to exercise the grace of discretion in what they say and listen to, should also rethink the
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There are numerous methods of mortification (putting sin to death) that I have sought to apply over the years to kill the destructive forces that continually war against my soul. Such biblical methods as hiding the truth of God’s Word in my heart, not making provision for the flesh, or reckoning myself dead to sin
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In recent days I have been gripped by the awareness that I need more than an academic grasp of the knowledge of God. In my spiritual pilgrimage, I have immersed myself into the spiritual logic of A. W. Tozer in His experimental work, The Pursuit of God. While biblical scholarship is vitally important in our
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic allegory, The Scarlet Letter, a woman named Hester Prynne bore a child out of wedlock. As a result, she was required to wear the letter A as a sign of public disgrace for her act of adultery. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth surrounded with elaborate embroidery,
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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.~ Matthew 10:28 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, …. ~ II Corinthians 5:11 Who would have imagined the global terrorism that has
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Because of secularism (the view that public activities and decisions should not be influence by religious beliefs and practices) the modern church, who is not biblically driven, seeks to connect with an anti – God culture. In an attempt to reach the disinterested irreligious mind, many modern evangelical ministers and believers in their pursuit of
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And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of
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I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. ~ John Wesley At the risk of sounding controversial, let me address the issue
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