“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
More words of wisdom from those who knew their God intimately. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” ~ Jim Elliot “God’s program is directed toward, and is experienced in, community.” ~ Stanley Grenz “It has often been that the greatest thing of God has been …
Let me be clear about this - I have a great deal of Irish heritage. St. Patrick’s day is here today. If you look at how it is celebrated, you would think that the principle gifts Patrick gave to us are Irish people, beer, green clothes and being drunk in public. While Irish people are …
"Rivers of Living Waters" by T. Austin Sparks. The SeedSowers, www.seedsowers.com Bottom line up front: This is a very important book if one is to understand the work of the Holy Spirit as predicted in Ezekiel's prophecies. The content ties together our God's eternal purpose as fulfilled by the Spirit, and how the New Covenant relationship of union with …
Andrew Murray was truly a man with a heart for our God, a man who understood the New Covenant life in God's Kingdom. One of the most influential and theologically solid writers of all time (who is not in the Bible). If you read only one writer regarding the New Covenant life, read Murray and all you …
How do we remain in a vital union, an abiding relationship in which we are in Christ and Christ in us? The path to living in this abiding life includes loving him with our entire being, more than we love self or any other person or thing. It is built upon our surrendering more and more …
Matthew 10:37-39 “The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And the one who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. The one who has …
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Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee , Bernard of Clairvaux 1090 - 1153 AD. Some say Bernard was a kind of early reformer, although he did not speak out against many significant errors of his day. Regardless of his relationship with highly institutional religion, some of his writings indicate a heart after his Savior. This poem, later turned into a …
Words of wisdom from those who knew their God intimately. “Without the Way, there is no going; without the Truth there is no knowing; without the Life there is no living.” ~ Thomas à Kempis “If you don’t have to be afraid of God, you don’t have to be afraid of anything.” ~ Brennan Manning “The …
Clive Staples Lewis, 1898-1963, on the Christ who indwells the true believer. "And now we begin to see what the New Testament is always talking about. It talks about Christians "being born again"; it talks about them "putting on Christ"; about Christ "being formed in us"; about our coming to "have the mind of Christ." Put right out of …
The New Covenant prophesied in the Old Testament Jeremiah 31:31-34 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring …
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