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A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)

Autor/a de The Pursuit of God

343 obres 28,460 Membres 149 Ressenyes 45 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Aiden W. Tozer was born in La Jose, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1897. He was raised on a farm and never received more than an elementary school education. While on his way home from the Akron, Ohio tire company where he worked as a teen, Tozer overheard a street preacher and decided to follow Christ. mostra'n més In 1919, he accepted an offer to pastor his first church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia, which began 44 years of ministry with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He served as pastor of the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago from 1928 to 1959 and spent his final years as pastor at the Avenue Road (Alliance) Church in Toronto, Canada. He wrote more than 40 books during his lifetime including The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God - Their Meaning in the Christian Life. He died on May 12, 1963 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo courtesy of Lowell Tozer

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Obres de A. W. Tozer

The Pursuit of God (1948) 6,838 exemplars
The Knowledge of the Holy (1961) 4,417 exemplars
The Divine Conquest (1950) 940 exemplars
The Root of the Righteous (1955) 616 exemplars
Man: The Dwelling Place of God (1966) 520 exemplars
That Incredible Christian (1964) 504 exemplars
I Talk Back to the Devil (1972) 348 exemplars
Keys to the Deeper Life (1961) 307 exemplars
God Tells The Man Who Cares (1969) 285 exemplars
Best of A.W. Tozer, Book 1 (1984) 284 exemplars
Gems from Tozer (1978) 281 exemplars
Of God and Men (1960) 272 exemplars
Born After Midnight (1959) 254 exemplars
Who Put Jesus on the Cross (1975) 244 exemplars
I Call It Heresy (1974) 238 exemplars
Paths to Power (1701) 204 exemplars
The Crucified Life (2011) 186 exemplars
The Best of A. W. Tozer, Book 2 (1979) 174 exemplars
Faith Beyond Reason (1987) 171 exemplars
Set of the Sail (1986) 165 exemplars
Men Who Met God (1986) 165 exemplars
When He Is Come (1968) 154 exemplars
Christ the Eternal Son (1982) 141 exemplars
Delighting in God (2015) 129 exemplars
A Treasury of A. W. Tozer (1979) 124 exemplars
Jesus Author of Our Faith (1988) 122 exemplars
Jesus Is Victor (1989) 120 exemplars
We Travel an Appointed Way (1988) 118 exemplars
The Price of Neglect (1991) 95 exemplars
Next Chapter After the Last (1988) 80 exemplars
The Tozer Pulpit, Volume One (1883) — Autor — 57 exemplars
Essays on Prayer (1968) 53 exemplars
Leaning into the Wind (1984) 50 exemplars
The Tozer Topical Reader (1999) 31 exemplars
Five Vows for Spiritual Power (1990) 19 exemplars
Spiritual Warfare (1993) 11 exemplars
God's Greatest Gift to Man (1960) 10 exemplars
The Deeper Life (1995) 7 exemplars
DISEÑADOS PARA ADORAR (2011) 7 exemplars
[Data Missing] (2017) 6 exemplars
Tozer Speaks Vol II (2010) 6 exemplars
The Old Cross & the New (1995) 6 exemplars
Pursuit of God (1982) 6 exemplars
The Apostles' Creed (2023) 5 exemplars
Pursuit of God Bible-NIV (2013) 5 exemplars
Those Amazing Methodists (1995) 4 exemplars
O PROPOSITO DO HOMEM (1905) 3 exemplars
MAIS PERTO DE DEUS 3 exemplars
Potraga za Bogom 3 exemplars
Die vergessene Kraft (1975) 3 exemplars
Tozer Topical Reader, Volume 2 (1960) 3 exemplars
Tuo Uskomaton Kristitty (2004) 2 exemplars
Paths to Power 2 exemplars
4 Seasons of Life (1996) 2 exemplars
Das Wesen Gottes (2015) 2 exemplars
Voice of the Spirit (1997) 2 exemplars
The Cozer Pulpit (1972) 2 exemplars
Shun fu shen (2007) 2 exemplars
Como provar os espíritos (1999) 2 exemplars
Putting God First (1997) 2 exemplars
Approachable Christ (1997) 2 exemplars
Miracles Follow the Plow (1997) 2 exemplars
Sovereignty of God (1997) 2 exemplars
Evidence of Salvation (1997) 2 exemplars
Unity-Key to Revival (1996) 2 exemplars
Pärlor från A.W. Tozer (1990) 1 exemplars
Renewed Day by Day 1 exemplars
PIPER OF THE MASS 1 exemplars
The Pursuit of God 1 exemplars
A RAIZ DOS JUSTOS 1 exemplars
The Radical Cross 1 exemplars
Poder Espiritual 1 exemplars
Why Be a Mediocre Christian (1997) 1 exemplars
Fruit of the Spirit (1997) 1 exemplars
Hebrews (Hebrews (Christian)) (2000) 1 exemplars
Geistliche Tiefe gewinnen (1998) 1 exemplars
Gott liebt keine Kompromisse (1977) 1 exemplars
Tanrı'yı Tanımak 1 exemplars
Faith dares to fail 1 exemplars
A Reveal Question 1 exemplars
The Power of Prayer 1 exemplars
A.W. Tozer Bible-KJV (2012) 1 exemplars
受教的心 1 exemplars
The Set Of The Sail 1 exemplars
Purpose of Man, The 1 exemplars
渴慕神 1 exemplars
受教的心 1 exemplars
Deleitando-se Em Deus (2016) 1 exemplars
The Tozer Pulpit 1 exemplars
The To see Pulpit 1 exemplars

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Fui crucificado com Cristo. Assim, já não sou eu quem vive, mas Cristo vive em mim. A vida que agora vivo no corpo, vivo-a pela fé no filho de Deus, que me amou e se entregou por mim. Gálatas 2.20 O que significa estar “crucificado com Cristo”? A vida inteira, o renomado professor A. W. Tozer foi convidado com frequência para falar em seminários, igrejas e conferências bíblicas a respeito da cruz e seu significado na vida cristã. Agora, nesta compilação inédita de seu melhor ensino sobre o assunto, você obterá um entendimento renovado da centralidade da cruz no seu caminhar de fé em Cristo. O apóstolo Paulo declarou em sua carta aos gálatas que havia sido “crucificado com Cristo”. Mas o que significa isso? É algo que todo cristão pode e deve afirmar? A vida crucificada é um exame abrangente dessas questões, respondidas com o profundo pensamento bíblico pelo qual Tozer costuma ser reverenciado. “Deus é hábil em desenvolver cruzes para seus seguidores”, ele gostava de dizer. No cerne deste livro, você encontrará um chamado para seguir Cristo até a cruz e ser ressuscitado para uma nova vida ― um chamado para viver a vida crucificada.… (més)
 
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ariostonog | Feb 24, 2024 |
A classic lived by many, but this is my first reading. I wasn't as blown away as I'd hoped. There were things I liked and some that really didn't resonate with me (probably the Arminian flavor)
 
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jfranzone | Hi ha 50 ressenyes més | Feb 14, 2024 |
First sentence: Every battle begins with understanding who the enemy is. If soldiers do not know who the enemy is, how then are they going to be prepared to deal with them? I believe a lot of Christians today do not know their real enemy. The enemy is not in the church pews. Many Christians spend a lot of time in conflict with one another, much to the great delight of our enemy the devil. It's in our understanding of the enemy that we can begin to prepare ourselves for the battle and ongoing conflict that is before us. As Christians, we are engaged in what is called spiritual warfare, and this war cannot be fought with physical or military might, guns, and torpedoes. How we comprehend spiritual warfare says a lot about our relationship with Christ.

Almost all of the A.W. Tozer books being published in the past forty to fifty years are really more compilations of sermons grouped together by theme, subject or topic. The topic in this one is either a) spiritual warfare in general or b) the tactics of the devil our adversary.

The chapter titles:

Facing Our Real Enemy
The Danger of Compromising Our Confidence
Causes of Backsliding, the Devil's Toolbox
Symptoms of Backsliding the Devil Uses
Self-confidence vs. Confidence in God
How We Can Prevent the Devil from Taking Advantage of Us
Discouragement: A Valuable Tool of the Devil Against Christians
The Mistakes of Israel and Possibly Ours
How the Devil Manipulates the Plague of the Heart
The Dangers of Arrogance and Defeat
The Root of Our Spiritual Warfare
The Wall Between Us and the Devil
The Ultimate Spiritual Temptation
Standing Against the Wiles of the Devil

I will say you can tell this is a compilation of different sermons. The flow isn't super-polished; the chapters don't always build upon one another. All of the chapters--many of which have a stand-alone feel--do share a common theme or subject. Some chapters were incredibly helpful and beneficial--true must reads. Other chapters perhaps less so.

A.W. Tozer, I believe, died in 1963. In some ways, his writings turned out to be prophetic. Yet if Tozer was alive and preaching, it would be a whole new world to him. I don't know that the state of the church in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s is similar enough to the state of the church the past twenty or thirty years that his statements still ring true. I will try to clarify. Truth does not change. I believe--and Tozer believed--in absolute truth. The Bible is the VERY Word of God--inerrant, infallible, inspired, God-breathed, TRUE. When Tozer is preaching the Word (which is often, his sermons are saturated in the Word) then he's always going to be relevant and worth reading. I am referring to Tozer's assessment of the world, the culture, the church. Like when he says that the enemy is NOT in the church. I think enemies can be found IN the church--in positions of power and influence, coming from the top down. I think that spiritual warfare includes discerning the dangers within the church as well as those outside the church. Tozer lived at a time perhaps when that was rarer. He saw no reason at all for denominations and saw [almost] all differences between denominations as insignificant and petty. While I do tend to agree that there won't be divisions and denominations in heaven, I do see them as a 'necessary evil' of sorts in the here and now. We are called to discern between truth and error.

Quotes:
You cannot have the armor of God and indulge the flesh.


Confidence in God releases us from the need to understand all that God is doing.


Whatever threat to our spiritual health we choose to ignore, the enemy twists around so as to compromise our confidence in God.


Because of the fall, we have been robbed of the power and desire to do this naturally. Sin remade our nature, thus it's not natural when we go to pray. We must override all the accumulated ages of sin if we are to say with sincerity, "Our Father in heaven." If sin hadn't entered the picture, we wouldn't have anything to override. Rather, we'd simply raise our voices like the songbirds that sing God's praises without effort.
People, then, tend to turn away from God, their desire and passion for Him growing cold, and go back to what comes natural to them.


We are backsliding when we have lost the relish for the Bible we once had.
We are backsliding when we're more tolerant of evil than we once were, when we don't have the horror of sin that we pray and sing about.
We are backsliding when we have less enthusiasm for spiritual things than we used to have.


I doubt that discouragement is the greatest enemy the Christian has, but it can easily be the greatest nuisance a Christian has to deal with. It is valuable to the devil in his war against us because it is seldom recognized for what it is. When Christians become discouraged, common sense tells them they are just begin realistic. We forget that it is not realism but discouragement, and it often works when no other temptation will. A Christian who would not be guilty of any sin willingly, and who has victory enough not to fall into temptation unwillingly, may yet be visited by this infernal dark shadow from the pit, which we call discouragement. And this greatly hinders the Christian life. Discouragement can easily become a ruling emotion. It is more than an emotion; after a while, it becomes a disposition, an outlook, and an attitude. A darkened lens through which we view everything before us. The mood is the mental climate. IT isn't the individual person so much as the weather on the landscape of their life, which has captivated the person. Just as the weather isn't the field or the farm, and yet it goes a long way in determining if the farm will yield a good crop or not.
You must go to God completely alone as if He were in the desert or in a cave.


We must respond to God's Word with a "Yes, He means what He says, and I surrender my life to Him."


We need to restore in the Church today that passionate love for God that nothing else can satisfy. If you're satisfied with something else, you haven't met the God of the Bible. The more of God you have, the more of God you want.


If you're not worshiping God in our prayers, we're not praying.
… (més)
 
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