The spiritual disease of taking grace for granted and responding with ingratitude to the riches of God’s kindnesses may be reaching epidemic proportions in our time. Few believers begin the day with a sense of wonder at the lovingkindness of God, gratitude for their health, amazement at the undeserved blessings they have received, or anticipation [...]
27Feb10
Taking Grace for Granted
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26Feb10
The Pursuit of God – Part 14
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. Choosing God’s Presents Over His Presence I once watched a NOVA produced special on “The Mysterious Universe.” Among the many interesting topics explored were some edgy hypotheses, such [...]
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Going Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2aLSat3h0w Abide With Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7VDJGZhyQ&feature=related Air (Bach) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztN8G8gLADw&feature=related
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25Feb10
The Pursuit of God – Part 13
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. What kind of ands are you tempted to attach to God? Do you struggle with getting God to approve your personal agenda? Do you reason that if you [...]
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24Feb10
Called to Be Like Him: A Prayer
O God, you are Lord of heaven and earth, and all things come from You and through You and to You. When You spoke the cosmos into being, You remained the infinite and personal One who is forever distinct from Your created order. You alone are God, and we are Your people who have been [...]
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23Feb10
The Pursuit of God – Part 12
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. Seeking God-and or God-only To pursue God with a “holy desire” requires us to simplify our lives. We must learn to approach him as children, with the sense [...]
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22Feb10
Ways to Avoid God
There are many ways to avoid God, and two of the best, as Pascal observed centuries ago, are distraction and indifference. “Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters… My point is that, if God does [...]
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22Feb10
The Pursuit of God – Part 11
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. Although David’s life was full of spiritual passion, he was sometimes passionate about the wrong things. Yet God did not characterize him according to his sins, but according [...]
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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others [...]
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19Feb10
The Struggle of Trust: A Prayer
Lord of all creation, You made us for Yourself, and You always take pleasure in granting us every good and perfect gift. Your Word is trustworthy and Your promises are sure. In spite of this, I struggle with trusting You enough to surrender to Your better way. I often succumb to my own devices and [...]
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