“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
In the previous post, I wrote of our God's larger purposes for us and how when we pray for those as our most urgent priorities our lives will begin to align with His life and will in us. There are many purposes our God has in mind for us, purposes that fit under the three …
How can we pray reliably according to the will of our God? He has given us so many clues in the scriptures that to do so is really not difficult. The big issues of His will for us are found in the purposes for which we were created and redeemed. To pray for them regarding …
Our modern view of prayer in the religion of the institutional church is very weak and one-dimensional. For so many, prayer is characterized by the following fallacious attitudes and beliefs: Prayer is an event - we "do" prayer, usually at specific times and in specific settings. Over a meal. Before a meeting. For a few …
The advice in the title, given by A.W. Tozer. He stated, "Read less, but read more of what really matters." Sound wisdom. I have been publishing lists of influential books that will help to guide readers into a deeper understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom as Christ Jesus presented it, and the New Covenant …
I am a steady reader. Some might say a voracious reader. I know a few voracious readers, and I don't read as much as they do. But I am always in the midst of a book or two, and sometimes three. As I stated in the most recent post, the characteristics that make a book …
What makes a book worth the time to read it? There are many different measures for evaluating books. People have differing opinions. One person’s masterpiece is another person’s meaningless drivel. How do we know what makes a book great? I have a short list of characteristics that I use that helps me choose my reading …
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 …
Jesus, in John 15, directed His true disciples in this way, "Abide in me, and I in you." He went on to add, "I am the vine and you are the branches; he who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing." The abiding …
From Clyde Cranford's excellent book, "Because We Love Him - Embracing a Life of Holiness." "And, we have a commission from the Lord. We are to do what He does, go where He sends, and say what He gives us to say. When we preach, teach, or share one-on-one, the words we speak are not …
"Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God …
One Pursuit 