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The Pursuit of God – Part 7

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. We Pursue Because He First Pursued Us In the opening chapter, entitled “Following Hard After God,” Tozer begins with a reference to “prevenient grace.” That is, God’s grace [...]

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All Things Work Together: A Prayer

Your creation is a magnificent unity in diversity, profound in wisdom, awesome in understanding, marvelous in purpose and rich in elegance. You revel in variety, subtlety, intricacy, information and beauty. All things work together in both the physical and spiritual realms. I thank You for creating and calling me to become conformed to the image [...]

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The Pursuit of God – Part 6

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 arrives at the same destination as Clinton, yet with greater simplicity. The pursuit of God requires one to move beyond the purely cognitive level. The mind may [...]

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The Pursuit of God – Part 5

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. The Life Maturing phase comes next and complements the Ministry Maturing phase. Here, the task is to grow up with respect to serving God by focusing on your [...]

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The Lover of Our Souls: A Prayer

What we could not have learned from the glories and marvels of Your world, You have revealed through your Word. We know from the heavens and the earth that You are all-powerful, utterly wise and everywhere present; Your eternal power and divine nature have clearly been revealed. But it was only through Your special revelation [...]

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The Pursuit of God – Part 4

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. Next comes the Ministry Maturing phase. Here, the task is to grow up with respect to serving God by developing your exterior “ministry proficiency.” As a maturing person, [...]

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The Pursuit of God – Part 3

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 God Grows a Saint In Robert Clinton’s book, The Making of a Leader,” he lays out a process by which God often grows his spiritual saints. It [...]

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The Glory of the Creator: A Prayer

O Lord my God, You are exalted above all things we can conceive and imagine. Time and space are a part of Your created order—You brought them into being, and You dwell in all times and places. You are the eternal now, the great i am, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the [...]

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Launching a New Blog

I am launching a blog that will be a bit different, insofar as it will consist of several elements. The first of these is a group of articles based on a series that I have adapted from my 11-part CD teaching on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. The second element is [...]

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