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. Concerning the spiritual disciplines, I’ve found it best to practice a range of activities and then determine which ones work best for me. I would recommend that you [...]
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28May10
The Paradox of the Moral Life
The paradox of the moral life consists in this: that the highest mutuality is achieved where mutual advantages are not consciously sought as the fruit of love. For love is purest where it desires no returns for itself; and it is most potent where it is purest. Complete mutuality, with its advantages to each party [...]
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28May10
Disciplines for Our Spirit
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. A spiritual discipline program is best seen as a training program for those who want to be like Christ. If we truly want to do what he did, [...]
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Lord, I thank You that You have created me in Your image and have given me the dignity of being capable of moral choices that genuinely affect my journey and destiny. By Your grace, may I exercise this moral and spiritual capacity by taking the steps of faith, especially in times when my flesh resists [...]
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Human love desires the other person, his company, his answering love, but it does not serve him. On the contrary, it continues to desire even when it seems to be serving. . . . Because spiritual love does not desire but rather serves, it loves an enemy as a brother. It originates neither in the [...]
26May10
A Growing Capacity to Receive
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. Concerning the question of how a person cultivates spiritual receptivity, I’d like to offer some suggestions. First of all, it is critical to remember that faith is simply [...]
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- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of humility – Jesus’ offer of rest for our weary souls is open only to those who will come to him and learn from him: “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me” (v. 29a). In the ancient Middle-east they would train an [...]
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25May10
Spiritual Receptivity
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. God’s children vary widely. But Tozer seeks to identify the thread common to all who have an intimate relationship with him. He suggests that the one vital quality [...]
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God, I ask that I would experience a growing desire for You and for the things You declare to be important. I also ask that this living desire would express itself in an ever-increasing willingness to take the risks of faith so that I would honor You by treasuring Your will for my life. I [...]
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21May10
Two Contrasting Empires
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I founded empires; but upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. – Napoleon
