Wednesday 07/27/16 Series: The Pursuit of God Messages – Chapter 9c – Meekness & Rest Click here for the Video Chapter 9 Meekness & Rest We usually divide the chapters into sections and have discussions following the reading of each segment. This time our discussion groups took two weeks on a single segment so this post contains the second half of our time spent on the following questions. For Discussion Tozer brings up two things in the closing of this chapter which we will make the focus of our entire evening… Pretense – This is almost entirely an outward expression. […]
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The Pursuit of God – Chapter 9b
Wednesday 07/2o/16 Series: The Pursuit of God Messages – Chapter 9b – Meekness & Rest Click here for the Video Chapter 9 Meekness & Rest For Discussion Tozer brings up two things in the closing of this chapter which we will make the focus of our entire evening… Pretense – This is almost entirely an outward expression. It is the projection of a “false-self” we believe will be more to our advantage than who we actually are. We do this almost instinctively by exhibiting an image of ourselves which we believe will make us more appealing to others and […]
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Gifts, Ministries & Callings…oh my! After establishing these fundamentals, Paul breaks down into three categories, what Christians often lump all together as “gifts”. I have highlighted the three terms with their Strong’s Concordance numbers so you can easily see that all three, are different words. You may already notice that the three words used in the King James version are NOT the same words I used as the heading of this segment of the article. That was on purpose! While nearly every Christian denomination is aware of the term “gifts” in one capacity or another (a.k.a. spiritual gifts, grace gifts, gifts […]
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