“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.” Bonhoeffer is speaking to the fact that only those who are troubled and humbled by their own condition are able to …
“Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.” ― A.W. Tozer “Christ is Lord and can make any demands upon us that He chooses, even to the point of requiring that we deny ourselves …
We often hear of people who are considered enemies of Christ Jesus, a title we give to particularly harmful or evil people. We need to exercise caution in speaking of people in such language, especially considering we were all once in that same condition. Yet there is in scripture an example of a class of …
“Knowledge or religion means to be good and to do good, to worship God or to work for God without having the living presence of God.” ― Witness Lee “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 I hear many …
“You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ” - CH Spurgeon “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” Jesus, speaking of Himself as the Son …
An installment in the series on union with our God. “Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.” ― Richard F. Lovelace A supervisor of mine had a bumper sticker on his office door that read, “Jesus is coming! Everyone look busy!” With all the activity that modern religiosity has …
One Pursuit 