- This is part of a series on the theme of encouragement – In a trying situation, Jonathan modeled the character of the encourager. When David could give nothing in return, Jonathan upheld him by offering his total support: Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I [...]
30Jul10
The Risks of Friendship
Lord God, Your love for me is causeless and ceaseless and measureless. You have loved me because You have chosen to do so, not because of anything I am or have done. This is the wellspring of my true security, and I revel in Your unconditional love and acceptance, knowing that I could never have [...]
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28Jul10
Navigating by a Fixed Point
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. Staying on course throughout our Christian voyage requires that you learn to navigate by fixing your gaze on something that does not move – the unmovable God of [...]
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27Jul10
The Encouragement of a Friend
- This is part of a series on the theme of encouragement – In the rough-and-tumble circumstances of life, we sometimes receive blows that leave us bleeding and gasping for breath. During such times, we need reassurance from God and others so that we may remain faithful in “the good fight” of faith, fix our [...]
26Jul10
Nowhere Else to Turn: A Prayer
Dear Lord, You alone are the fountainhead of all that is good, true and beautiful. I know that if I want life, I must pursue You above all else. May I say with David, “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, [...]
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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. “Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.” (Psalm 57:5) Before the days of Global Positioning Satellite devices, ships on [...]
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22Jul10
Love, Discipline, and Time
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. In the words of A. W. Tozer, “The Triune God will be our dwelling place even while our feet walk the low road of simple duty here among [...]
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Father, I desire to be a person after Your own heart. I want to be pleasing and obedient to You, and when I sin against You, I want to acknowledge it quickly with no excuses and waste no time returning back to Your embrace. I know that I will never attain perfection in this life, [...]
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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. Tozer anticipates that some reader may fear that private religion is being magnified, that the, “us” of the New Testament is being displaced by a selfish “I.” He [...]
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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. How would you honestly answer this question: When your mind is free to think about anything, what does it think about? The minds of some gravitate to the [...]
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