You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. –2 Timothy 2:3-4 Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, its popularity or the [...]
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Humble Service
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What a Great Responsibility!
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand? –Revelation 6:17 What a great responsibility God has laid upon us preachers of His gospel and teachers of His Word. In that future day when God’s wrath is poured out, how are we going to answer? How am I going [...]
Be Widely Read
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. –2 Timothy 2:15 All else being equal it is desirable that Christians, especially ministers of the gospel, should be widely read. It is a disagreeable experience to present oneself before a teacher [...]
We Languish for Men
Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Then Paul answered, “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” –Acts 21:13 The Church at this moment needs men, the right kind of men, bold men…. We languish for men [...]
Discerning Leadership
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Tozer on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. –Acts 20:29-30 Within the circles of evangelical Christianity itself there has arisen in the last few years dangerous [...]
Sheep Are Led
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. –Psalm 95:6-7 Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to sheep, not to cattle. It [...]
A Shaky Foundation
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me….” –Jeremiah 9:23-24 It is true that much church activity is [...]
Worthy to Lead
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead)…. –Galatians 1:1 Conformity to the Word of God is always right, but obedience to religious leaders is good only if those leaders prove themselves worthy to lead. Leadership in the church of [...]
Acquaintance, Not Hearsay
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” –Luke 24:32 “It is one thing,” said Henry Suso, “to hear for oneself a sweet lute, sweetly played, and quite another thing merely to hear about [...]
A Bottle in the Ocean
Posted in Biblical Teaching, Christian Living, Encouragement, Tozer on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. –Ephesians 3:19 Pentecost means that the Deity came to mankind to give Himself to man, that man might breathe Him in as he breathes in the air, that He might fill men. Dr. A. B. [...]

