“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
On the cost of the cross of Christ to each one who would truly follow Him. “No work that is set on following the Crucified escapes the cross. It would not wish to do so. Sooner or later, if those who must give account to God do not weaken on some point of loyalty to …
Many people see themselves as followers of Jesus Christ. By this they mean they believe the facts about Jesus as they have heard them. They may have gone forward at an event, believed enough to say a prayer of commitment to Him, and have tried to obey what they have chosen as His commands to …
"In the center most part of your being, there is the supreme region. It is the sacred temple of the Holy Spirit - the place where God delights to abide. It is there that He manifests Himself to the one He created. He gives Himself in a way that transcends both senses and all human understanding. It is …
From Clyde's excellent book, "Because We Love Him: Embracing Life of Holiness." "Some may romanticize death to self from a distance, as one would romanticize martyrdom. But there is nothing romantic about the reality of death. Yet when we love Christ, we are drawn to follow Him in death. This death is a daily, deliberate …
“And you can see them there on Sunday morning Stand up and sing about what it's like up there They called it paradise, I don't know why You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye” “The Last Resort” (Written by T. Graham Brown and Bruce C. Bouton) The Eagles sang these words as a stinging …
“Abundant life comes to you when the old you ceases to breathe, and the new you comes to life.” A.W. Tozer, perhaps the greatest Christian thinker and writer of the 20th century, compared the New Testament teachings about the cross we are to carry, which he called the “old cross,” with what he called “the …
Image via Pixabay “I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I …
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.” W.H. Auden “The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is …
“I believe that God will crucify without pity those whom He desires to raise without measure! This is why we believers have to surrender to Him the full control of everything that we consider to be an asset in terms of human power and talent and accomplishment.” A.W. Tozer “Jesus came to raise the dead. …
“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 …
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