Download or read book The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends written by Richard C. Lamb, Jr. and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were not meant to walk alone. Many of us struggle to forge deep relationships with God and other people. Modern society has isolated us as rugged individuals, deceiving us into thinking we can make it through life on our own. Individualism has likewise shaped the pattern of Christian discipleship, privatizing faith and separating us from fellow believers. But we come to know God best when others help us on the way. And our friendships develop best when we seek after God together. What would it look like to pursue God not by ourselves but in the company of friends? According to the model of the New Testament, spiritual transformation takes place in the context of Christian community. By unpacking the Gospel narratives of Jesus' ministry with his disciples, Richard Lamb demonstrates how discipleship develops within the shared community life of groups of Christians. He explores a range of topics--such as spiritual friendship, hospitality, leadership, service, conflict, forgiveness and mission--in light of Christian community. Engaging stories from real-life experience show how people can form one another spiritually when their lives are tumbled against one another. If you long for more of God, deeper friendships or both, this book will help you on the journey. Discover the transforming power of discipleship in community. Join the pursuit of God in the company of friends.
Download or read book The Pursuit of God written by A. W. Tozer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pursuit of God is a series of sermons by A.W. Tozer. They focus on fighting and staying clear from Satan while opening hearts and minds to the saving force of God.
Download or read book The Pursuit of God written by A. W. Tozer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pursuit of God is an inspirational guide for Christians seeking to get closer to God, written by an American Christian pastor A. W. Tozer. In one of his most famous books Tozer identifies one of the major problems of the Christian Church. He suggests that the Church is making a new type of Christian who understands the Christian doctrine better than ever throughout the history, but still fails to understand what it really means to be a follower of Christ. Having identified the problem, Tozer offers a beautiful solution that is more practical and mystical than theological. He encourages the Christian to take the seeking of God and make it the foundation upon which their life is built on. Being a mystic, he focuses on experience, feeling and hearing God's voice as important to faith.
Download or read book The Company We Keep written by Jonathan Holmes and published by Cruciform Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship. This one word can mean a hundred different things to each person. We all want friends, but often struggle to develop meaningful friendships. Does the Bible speak to and present a vision and theology of biblical friendship? Is there anything unique about biblical friendship?
Download or read book The Pursuit of God with Study Guide written by A. W. Tozer and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the voices that speak most clearly in the present are those that echo from the past. So it is in this Christian classic by the late pastor and evangelist A. W. Tozer. In The Pursuit of God, Tozer brings the mystics to bear on modern spirituality, grieving the hustle and bustle and calling for a slow, steady gaze upon God. With prophetic vigor and flowing prose, he urges us to replace low thoughts of God with lofty ones, to quiet our lives so we can know God’s presence. He reminds us that life apart from God is really no life at all. Tozer's bestseller, this book has been called "one of the all-time most inspirational books" by a panel of Christian magazine writers. And with this study guide, ideal for group or individual use, reflection and discussion questions will help you internalize the content and apply it to your life.
Download or read book A Passion for God written by Lyle Dorsett and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I fear we shall never see another Tozer. Men like him are not college-bred but Spirit-taught.' Leonard Ravenhill, 20th century British evangelist. Pastor A. W. Tozer, author of the Christian classics The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy, was a complex, intensely private, deeply spiritual man, and a gifted preacher whose impact for the kingdom of God is immeasurable. In this thoughtful biography, bestselling author Lyle Dorsett traces Tozer's life from his humble beginnings as a Pennsylvania farm boy to his heyday as a Chicago pastor- when hundreds of college students would travel to his South Side church to hear him preach and thousands more heard his Sunday broadcasts on WMBI- to his final pastorate in Toronto. From his conversion as a teen to his death in 1963, Tozer remained true to one passion: to know the Father and make Him known, no matter what the cost. The price he paid was loneliness, censure from other, more secular-minded ministers of the times, and even a degree of estrangement from his family. Read the life story of a flawed but gifted saint, whose works are still impacting the world today.
Download or read book Pursuit of God with Reflection Study Questions written by A. W. Tozer and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find Hope and Peace with an Intimate Pursuit of God *Top 10 Amazon Best Seller* "Tozer wrote this book in 1948, but if anything, it is more relevant today." -- John Piper "He was one of the first preachers of my generation who made the Bible come alive." -- Frank Boggs, friend of Tozer. What if millions of Christians around the world had the right answers about God but rarely (if ever) worshiped Him? That's what author and pastor A.W. Tozer asked some 70 years ago when he wrote The Pursuit of God during an all-night train ride from Chicago to a speaking engagement in McAllen, Texas. Tozer began writing early in the evening, had a dinner of toast and tea around 9 p.m., and finished The Pursuit of God at 7:30 the next morning. He had penned a classic. "[F]or millions of Christians ... God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian," Tozer wrote. "They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle." But Tozer -- who spent hours each week praying -- said there is hope for those who hunger for and pursue God: "We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts." The Pursuit of God is for those who want to know God more -- his holiness, his riches, his love -- and to worship Him as did the saints of Scripture. In 10 concise chapters, Tozer explores the "mysterious depths" of God like few authors can with updated language to enhance your understanding. Each chapter concludes with a prayer by Tozer and reflection/discussion questions for personal reflection. Do you desire to know God? To have inward peace like never before? To see your faith refreshed and renewed? To have your life transformed by a walk with God you didn't think was possible? The Pursuit of God is a life-changing book for lay people, missionaries and pastors alike. It is a book that will challenge you, encourage you and inspire you. It is a book you'll read again ... and again .. and again. Don't hesitate in your pursuit of a deeper relationship with your Creator. Pick up this book today to find hope, peace, and healing now and for eternity.
Download or read book The Pursuit of God written by A. W. Tozer and published by Aneko Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Update: NASB Scriptures To have found God and still to pursue Him is a paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religious person, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux stated this holy paradox in a musical four-line poem that will be instantly understood by every worshipping soul: We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. Let A. W. Tozer’s pursuit of God spur you also into a genuine hunger and thirst to truly know God.
Download or read book Being God s Friend written by Charles H. Spurgeon and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know Him as Abba, Father, God, the Lord, the Almighty, or even as Daddy. But do you know Him as Friend? Do you love to spend time with Him? Do you look forward to your conversations, to your quiet times together? David sought God's company morning and night, Moses spoke with Him daily, and Abraham, believing and obeying the Father, "was called the Friend of God" (James 2:23). You, too, can have dynamic fellowship with the Father, with greater purpose and power than ever before. Experience the closeness of a friendship with God. Learn the joys of Being God's Friend today.
Download or read book Delighting in God written by A.W. Tozer and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.W. Tozer's Follow-up to The Knowledge of the Holy We were created in the image of God, and to understand who we are, we need to understand who God is. His very character and nature are reflected through us. Unless we fully grasp who we are, we'll never become all God wants us to be. Delighting in God is the message Tozer intended to be the follow-up to The Knowledge of the Holy. He demonstrates how the attributes of God--those things God has revealed about himself--are a way to understand the Christian life of worship and service. We are here to serve and adore him, but we can only fulfill that role by acknowledging who he is, which is the essence of the Christian life and the source of all our fulfillment, joy, and comfort.
Download or read book The Pursuit of God The Definitive Classic written by A. W. Tozer and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during a train trip in the late 1940s, The Pursuit of God shows how God pursues humans to draw them into a relationship with Himself, while humans thirst after the things of God—though they attempt to fill this thirst with things other than worship of their Creator. Tozer explores different aspects of this desire within the human heart, calling readers to examine what they believe and put aside preconceived ideas that disrupt this relationship with God. “It is a solemn thing,” he writes, “to see God’s children starving while actually seated at the Father’s table. This book is a modest attempt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him.”
Download or read book The Pursuit of God written by A. W. Tozer and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write "The Pursuit of God." He wrote all night, and when the train arrived at his destination, the rough draft was done. The depth of this book has made it an enduring favorite. Readers cannot help but hear the voice of God calling them to a deeper relationship with Him while reading this amazing classic. From beginning to end, each page in "The Pursuit of God" is an impassioned plea for the reader to abandon "comfortable Christianity" in order to truly know God as He desires to be known. This is the most important and foundational book of the Christian faith written by a man who wore holes in the knees of his pants from praying. "The Pursuit of God" challenges the reader to consider their own faith in Christ, and what they should be doing with that faith, in virtually every chapter. The chapter entitled "The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing" should be required reading for anyone confessing Christ as their Lord. If you have not done so already, please read this book. Your life, and the lives of those you share this book with, will be forever enriched.
Download or read book A Stranger in the House of God written by John Koessler and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith
Download or read book The Wisdom Trail Guide written by Nathan King and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wisdom is not something God wants from you. It's something God wants for you."Nathan King has been helping others take their next step toward the life of Wisdom God wants for them for two decades.Wisdom is not something reserved for a select few. Wisdom is not meant to be hidden away from you. Wisdom is available to everyone. God wants you to experience a life of Wisdom.In "The Wisdom Trail Guide: 31 Steps to a Life of Wisdom" Nathan King offers insight from 31 daily entrees in the Book of Proverbs. Each entry offers practical insight coupled with real life situations anyone searching for Wisdom can relate to."The Wisdom Trail Guide" is formatted to be a quick and easy read. One that doesn't consume a lot of your time; but offers a thoughtful response for each day. Read it on your own, with a friend, or in a group. The challenges and prayers included inside will help you take your next step forward.In "The Wisdom Trail Guide" pastor and adjunct professor Nathan King lays out 31 clear steps anyone can take. Steps that can reshape how you see yourself, how you interact with the people around you, and how you approach your life.Fear, forgiveness, decision making, friends, work, family and more are tackled during the four week journey that will challenge and encourage the life of anyone looking to take their next step toward a life of Wisdom.
Download or read book Let My People Go written by A. W. Tozer and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How God can use one person—limitations and all—to bring thousands to Himself Robert A. Jaffray was a giant among the pioneer missionary statesmen of the early 20th century. Heir to the Toronto Globe, one of Canada's leading newspapers, he turned his back on wealth and power to serve in China. Responsible for an ever-growing work there, he simultaneously opened French Indochina to The Christian and Missionary Alliance. Later he orchestrated the missionary effort in Indonesia, today the largest Alliance field overseas. Jaffray was a missionary general. His keen administration, extensive writing, and incessant strategizing made him a natural leader. Aided by his wife, Minnie, he never let poor health—diabetes and a heart condition—deter him from his work for the Lord. Committed to missions and the people of Southeast Asia to the end, Jaffray died a Martyr in a Japanese prison camp during World War 2. His story serves as an example of how God can use one person—limitations and all—to bring thousands to Himself.
Download or read book The Knowledge of the Holy written by A.W. Tozer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.W. Tozer maintained that a theologian’s message must be ‘both timeless and timely’, a sentiment borne out in the fact that his writing on worship still acts as an urgent warning today. Tozer is primarily concerned with the loss of the concept of ‘majesty’ from the popular mind and more importantly from the thinking of the church. He sees the church as having surrendered her once lofty concept of God – not deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge. With this comes a further loss of religious awe and a sense of the divine presence, of an appropriate spirit of worship and of our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence. Tozer addresses this problem, to go back to the causes of the decline and to understand and correct the errors that have given rise to our devotional poverty. ‘It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequate,’ he tells us. What is needed is a restoration of our knowledge of the holy.
Download or read book Christ s Empowering Presence written by Gary Tyra and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ's Empowering Presence looks at the Spiritual Disciplines through the eyes of both classical and contemporary writers, a process that changed the author's life.
