“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
Image via fellowshipofaburningheart.wordpress.com In the summer of 1947, a small group of people met to pray at a cabin at Forrest Home Christian Conference Center in the San Bernadino Mountains of Southern California. This prayer meeting lasted all night amid tears, joy, pleading and praises to our God. By the time they were done for …
“Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Mary the mother of Jesus, to the angel announcing the coming birth of Jesus, as recorded in Luke 1:38 One of my heroes in the Gospel narratives is Mary, the mother of Jesus. Her fortitude in dealing with …
“The way to bliss lies not on a bed of down, and he that has no cross deserves no crown.” Francis Quades “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those …
“All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.” E. M Bounds “Christ is Lord and can make any demands upon us that He chooses, even to the point of requiring that we deny ourselves and bear the cross daily. The mighty anointing …
The Christmas story, the account of the arrival of our Savior as a baby, has a wildness to it. Colored with scandal, flavored with risk, it has elements that are wild, bold, over the edge. Our God appears as a helpless baby in a scene that could be accurately described as a wild frontier socially, …
One Pursuit 