Spiritual Condition
Tozer – Choices, Deeds, and Consequences
“NOW, THERE’S A VOICE THAT’S SPEAKING TO US TONIGHT. In the Word and out of Heaven this voice speaks … and it says ’Consider’. And consider means, of course, to look at closely and to think about seriously. And all society is conspiring to prevent us from doing this. Organized human society wants us to do [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Keys to the Deeper Life
“Question: Dr. Tozer, what specific steps would you suggest for the earnest seeker after the ‘deeper life’? Tozer: I have never been much for ‘steps’ in the Christian life, though they may be useful to some people. For the most part, my method has been simply to plunge in on the promises of God and let God [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Where Are the Prophets?
“Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who [...]
Be Sober-Minded; Be Watchful … But Why?
1 Peter 5:8-9 says, “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.” But if what OSAS teaches – that once a person is [...]
Practical Problems With OSAS
Note: It should be obvious from the content of the post, but the version of OSAS that I am arguing against in this post is what has been termed by some as the ‘Alpha View’. It is the view that a singular moment of faith is enough to guarantee an entrance into the eternal kingdom of [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Popular Evangelicalism
“Popular evangelicalism has been selling out to the worldly spirit and worldly methods to a point where Hollywood now has more influence than Jerusalem ever had. Youth take for their examples not the saints of old but the stars of today. The chaste dignity and sparkling purity of true Christianity has been displaced by a [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Religious Boredom
“Those Christians who belong to the evangelical wing of the Church (which I firmly believe is the only one that even approximates New Testament Christianity) have over the last half-century shown an increasing impatience with things invisible and eternal and have demanded and got a host of things visible and temporal to satisfy their fleshly [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Choices Reveal Character
“The important thing about a man is not where he goes when he is compelled to go, but where he goes when he is free to go where he will. “The apostles went to jail, and that is not too revealing because they went there against their will; but when they got out of jail [...]
