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Don’t Settle for Status Quo Bondage
One of the notes I made on the passage in Mark 5 where Jesus heals the demoniac: “Don’t settle for letting people stay in bondage.” Sometimes it is hard work seeing people set free. It might be pray. It might be fasting. It might be counseling. It might be a huge combination of many things. Don’t give up. Don’t let up. Jesus…
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God and God Alone — Tozer
“Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.”
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Happy Birthday, A.W. Tozer
Today apparently is the birthday of A.W. Tozer. Some great Tozer quotes: “One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.” “I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do with religion… I want all that…
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Changing Tastes
2 Why spend money for what isn’t food, and your earnings for what doesn’t satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good; enjoy the richest of feasts. (Isa. 55:2, CEB) We can get hooked on Twinkies and think they are just the finest dessert cake this side of heaven. We can think we know God and find out we’ve…
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Shredding the Word of God
20 After leaving the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe, they went to the king’s court and told him everything. 21 The king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he retrieved it from the room of Elishama the scribe. Then Jehudi read it to the king and all his royal officials who were standing next to the king. 22 Now it was…
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The Call to Keep Climbing
This Live/Dead journal will be the end of me. And it should. There is enough of this “old me “. It is time to live NEW… in Christ. HE is all. HE is my great treasure.
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The Search for “Home”
I met with a former student today and we caught up on life. Over the years I have gained a deep appreciation for all the streams of Christianity that have come through the centuries, so when I see people exploring streams other than the one they grew up in, I’m interested. He has reached a point in his life where…
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