[Listening to: “You Know How It Is” – Stavesacre – Punkzilla (02:18)] …he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth;and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?” Daniel 4:35 (ESV) “And he put all things under his feet and […]
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O God, quicken to life every power within me, that I may lay hold on eternal things. Open my eyes that I may see; give me acute spiritual perception; enable me to taste Thee and know that Thou art good. Make heaven more real to me than any earthly thing has ever been. Amen. (Tozer,
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[Listening to: Directed Youth – The Crucified – Take Up Your Cross/Nailed (01:58)] I just finished reading Simplicity by Mark Salomon. It only took me four days to read it, and I can’t remember the last time I was so engulfed in a book. I’ve been a fan of Stavesacre and The Crucified since 1996,
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DISCLAIMER: This blog was written before I became a 5-point Calvinist. In this blog entry I quoted A.W. Tozer saying, “it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.” Tozer is an Arminian and therefore believes that the atonement is not limited to the elect, but that the cross “would”
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Oswald Chambers wrote: There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness. Concern over our personal holiness causes us
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“Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.” 2 Tim. 2:3-4 (ESV) “Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
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DISCLAIMER: A.W. Tozer was an Arminian. If he doesn’t have a Biblical understanding of the Gospel of Grace, it’s difficult to see how his teaching could be beneficial to the soul. Original post:This is the first installment in a planned chapter-by-chapter look at A.W. Tozer’s book, The Pursuit of God. Granted, there are many who
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