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Letting Go Is No Easy Task

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 Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of the books in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, the story begins with the words “There was a [...]

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Subtle Forms of Idolatry: A Prayer

Lord God, where can I find life but in You? Teach me the error of seeking to reduce You to manageable proportions and to make the invisible visible. Protect me from the subtle forms of idolatry in which I worship and serve something in Your created order above You. I know that only one thing [...]

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Only by Faith and Love Are We Able to Glimpse Him

To think steadily of that to which the idea of origin cannot apply is not easy, if indeed it is possible at all.  Just as under certain conditions a tiny point of light can be seen, not by looking directly at it but by focusing the eyes slightly to one side, so it is with [...]

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The God Who Never Changes

- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity – Is there anyone we can trust?  People let us down again and again, because there is often a discrepancy between what they claim to believe and how they actually live.  But God will never let us down, because he never changes.  [...]

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A Great Prayer from the Past

Thanks be to Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits which Thou hast given us; for all the pains and insults which Thou hast borne for us.  O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother, may we know Thee more clearly, love Thee more dearly, and follow Thee more nearly; for Thine own sake.  [...]

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