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Christ Crucified
Christ Crucified
Andrew Murray - The Crucified One
J.C. Ryle - Christ Crucified ( Audio Reading )
We Preach Christ Crucified! - Oswald Chambers ( Audio Reading )
Spurgeon Sermons - Christ Crucified
Robert Leighton - Crucified with Christ
Spurgeon / Morning and Evening - Crucified With Christ
Oswald Chambers - Christ's Cross the Conscience of the Human Race (St. Matthew Passion / Bach)
Christian Praise and Worship Songs Playlist
Christian Praise and Worship Songs Playlist
Wonderful worship and praise music to our Lord:
Psalms 124 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents
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Psalm 124 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents (Original version
Psalm 123 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents
Psalm 129 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents
Psalm 131 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents
Psalm 126 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents
Psalm 84 (NKJV) - A Song of Ascents
Mary's Song
In Brokenness, I Come To You
I See Jesus
Kasih
A New Heart, A New Spirit (Ezekiel 36:24-28)
Take Eat, This is My Body: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
The Spirit of Truth (John 14:15-18)
Those Who Wait on the Lord (Isaiah 40:25-31)
They That Sow in Tears Shall Reap in Joy - Psalm 126
Love Your Enemies / Luke 6:35-36, 45
I Am Ascending ( Lyrics in Description )
Proverbs:17:10
I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger ( with lyrics )
Just As I Am Without One Plea (with lyrics)
Psalm: 21
"In June 2009, I was asked by my pastor to put music to Scripture, word for word, specifically to the 15 Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120 to 134). From the start of the first psalm I worked on (which was Psalm 130) to the completion of the last one (Psalm 133), I have not ceased to be amazed, for the Lord has given me melody after melody to fit His Words. I believe this is because we, the church of Jesus Christ, are entering into a season when these psalms will become more and more relevant, as we look forward to our Lord's return. (Please click here to read more on Songs of Ascents)."
"I thank my pastor, Ps. Lee Shaw Ming, for allowing the Lord to use him to challenge me to the task. (Your feedback and guidance were crucial to keeping me on track.) I thank my church for enthusiastically learning and singing these Scripture songs. (Hearing you sing them week after week gave me the encouragement to continue writing.) I thank my husband, KW Mui, for providing me with all that I needed to work on these Scripture songs (You were the first to have the vision that we would sing straight out of our Bibles!) I thank my kids (Rebekah and Samuel) for their endless support and love. I thank my friends (in particular Pastor Wah Lok, Catherine Wong, and my sister, Grace Soon) for their feedback and encouragement. I thank my co-producer, sound engineer and "manager", stack45ny, for believing in my music, and for the hours spent on working on these songs and videos. (The Lord bless you richly for your labor of love to see many blessed by these songs). Most of all, I thank my God, my Lord and Master, for seeing me fit to be a channel for what He wants to bless the body of Christ with."
"It is with gratitude in my heart to YHWH, my God, and Yeshua, my Lord, for He has prospered the works of my hands and caused me to continue putting His Word to music. To God be all the glory! My 2nd album has just been released and work for the next album, 'Songs of Salvation' has begun."
"I wish to also thank all who have given encouraging feedback and supported in one way or another. May you be blessed." -Esther Mui
Charles Spurgeon Sermon Playlist
Charles Spurgeon Sermon Playlist
Charles Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 January 31, 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers." In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times a week at different places. His sermons have been translated into many languages. Spurgeon was the pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London for 38 years. In 1857, he started a charity organization called Spurgeon's which now works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him after his death.
The descendant of several generations of Independent ministers, he was born at Kelvedon, Essex, and became a Baptist in 1850. In the same year he preached his first sermon, and in 1852 he was appointed paster of the Baptist congregation at Waterbeach. In 1854 he went to Southwark, where his sermons drew such crowds that a new church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington Causeway, had to be built for him. Apart from his preaching activites he founded a pastors' college, an orphanage, and a colportage association for the propagation of uplifting literature. Spurgeon was a strong Calvinist. He had a controversy in 1864 with the Evangelical party of the Church of England for remaining in a Church that taught Baptismal Regeneration, and also estranged considerable sections of his own community by rigid opposition to the more liberal methods of Biblical exegesis. These differences led to a rupture with the Baptist Union in 1887. He owed his fame as a preacher to his great oratorical gifts, humour, and shrewd common sense, which showed itself especially in his treatment of contemporary problems. Among his works are The Saint and his Saviour (1857), Commenting and Commentaries (1876) and numerous volumes of sermons (translated into many languages).
—The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
A Merry Christmas - Spurgeon Sermon
Spurgeon Sermon - Predestination and Calling / Romans 8:30
True Prayer-True Power!
Spurgeon Sermon - Full Assurance
Spurgeon Sermon - The First Cry From The Cross
Spurgeon Sermon - A Solemn Warning for All Churches (Revelation 3:4)
Spurgeon / "Lo, I Am With You Always" - Morning and Evening
Spurgeon / Morning and Evening - Crucified With Christ
Spurgeon - Apostasy
Spurgeon Sermon - Christ Triumphant
Spurgeon Sermon - Looking Unto Jesus
Spurgeon Sermon - The World Turned Upside Down
Suffering and Ministry: A Quote by Charles Spurgeon
The Imputation of Sin - Charles Spurgeon
Spurgeon Sermon - Humility
Spurgeon Sermon - A Christmas Question
Election and Holiness (C.H. Spurgeon)
A Blow at Self-Righteousness (C.H. Spurgeon)
Spurgeon Sermon - How to Read the Bible
Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats - Charles Spurgeon
Spurgeon Sermon - A Present Religion
Spurgeon Sermon - The Secret of Power in Prayer
Charles Spurgeon Sermon - Love Thy Neighbour
Spurgeon Sermon - Effects of Sound Doctrine
Spurgeon - Effects of Sound Doctrine
Spurgeon Sermon - Full Redemption
Encouraging Words ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Hope Even In Our Hopelessness ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
On false teachers/false prophets ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Private Devotions ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Don't Argue! ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Spurgeon Sermon - Self-Delusion
Spurgeon Sermon - The Fainting Warrior / War of Flesh and Spirit in Believers Romans 7
Spurgeon Sermon - Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men
E.M. Bounds and Charles Spurgeon - The Characteristics of True Prayer
Spurgeon Sermon - Adoption
Spurgeon Sermon - Christ Crucified
C.H. Spurgeon -The Robe
Spurgeon Sermon - Vessels of Mercy Romans 9:23,24
Spurgeon Sermon - God's Will and Man's Will Romans 9:16; Revelation 22:17
Spurgeon Sermon - Jacob and Esau: Romans 9:13
Come and Dine - CH Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon Sermon - Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings
Charles H. Spurgeon ~ A Faithful Friend
Spurgeon Sermon - Regeneration
Charles Spurgeon - All of Grace
Sham Redemption? ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Spurgeon Sermon - God's Will and Man's Will
Spurgeon Sermon - Justification by Faith
Sound Theologians ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Petty Wars Over Abstruse Points ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon ~Petty Wars Over Abstruse Points And Unimportant Questions
Spurgeon Sermon - Chastisement
Hymns with Lyrics
Hymns with Lyrics
How Great Thou Art - Christian Hymns (with lyrics)
Eternal Father, Strong to Save - Christian Navy Hymn with lyrics
Holy, Holy, Holy - Christian Hymns with Lyrics
J.S. Bach / O Sacred Head, Now Wounded - Christian Hymns with Lyrics ( Choir )
Amazing Grace - Christian Hymns with Lyrics ( John Newton )
Christian Hymns with Lyrics - When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded - Bach ( Christian Hymns with Lyrics )
Christian Hymns with Lyrics - Cast Thy Burden Upon The Lord
Christian Hymns with Lyrics - The Thought of God
Christian Hymns with Lyrics: Poor Sinner, Dejected With Fear ( Harmony Vocals )
Be Still My Soul ( Christian Hymns with Lyrics )
Christian Hymns with Lyrics - Come Ye Disconsolate
Christian Hymns with Lyrics: Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended
Christian Hymns with Lyrics - Saviour, Again to Thy Dear Name
O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus ( Christian Hymns with Lyrics )
King of my Life, I Crown Thee Now - Christian Hymn with lyrics
Christian Hymns with lyrics - Thine is the Glory
I Know that My Redeemer Lives - Christian Hymns with lyrics
Go to Dark Gethsemane - Christian Hymns (with lyrics)
Christian Hymns with Lyrics - What Wondrous Love is This
Beneath the Cross of Jesus ( Christian Hymns with Lyrics )
Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus! ( Christian Hymns with lyrics )
Jesus Christ is Risen Today - Easter Hymns ( with lyrics )
Look Ye Saints - Christian Hymns ( choir with lyrics )
Be Thou my Vision ( Christian hymns with lyrics )
Christian Hymns with lyrics - Our God, Our Help in Ages Past / Psalm 90 - Isaac Watts
Christian Easter Hymns with Lyrics - Day of Resurrection ( St. John of Damascus )
Rejoice, the Lord is King - Christian Hymns ( with lyrics )
Christian Hymns with Lyrics a Capella Choir: Unto Him (Jude 1:24-25)
Christian Hymns with Lyrics: Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Charles Wesley
Faith's Checkbook - Charles Spurgeon Devotional
Faith's Checkbook - Charles Spurgeon Devotional
A PROMISE from God may very instructively be compared to a check payable to order. It is given to the believer with the view of bestowing upon him some good thing. It is not meant that he should read it over comfortably, and then have done with it. No, he is to treat the promise as a reality, as a man treats a check.
He is to take the promise, and endorse it with his own name by personally receiving it as true. He is by faith to accept it as his own. He sets to his seal that God is true, and true as to this particular word of promise. He goes further, and believes that he has the blessing in having the sure promise of it and therefore he puts his name to it to testify to the receipt of the blessing.
This done, he must believingly present the promise to the LORD, as a man presents a check at the counter of the Bank. He must plead it by prayer, expecting to have it fulfilled. If he has come to Heaven's bank at the right date, he will receive the promised amount at once. If the date should happen to be further on, he must patiently wait till its arrival; but meanwhile he may count the promise as money, for the Bank is sure to pay when the due time arrives.
Some fail to place the endorsement of faith upon the check, and so they get nothing; and others are slack in presenting it, and these also receive nothing. This is not the fault of the promise, but of those who do not act with it in a common-sense, business-like manner.
God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill. To help my brethren to believe this, I have prepared this little volume. The sight of the promises themselves is good for the eyes of faith: the more we study the words of grace, the more grace shall we derive from the words. To the cheering Scriptures I have added testimonies of my own, the fruit of trial and experience. I believe all the promises of God, but many of them I have personally tried and proved. I have seen that they are true, for they have been fulfilled to me. This, I trust, may be cheering to the young; and not without solace to the older sort. One man's experience may be of the utmost use to another; and this is why the man of God of old wrote, "I sought the LORD, and he heard me"; and again, "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him."
I commenced these daily portions when I was wading in the surf of controversy. Since then I have been cast into "waters to swim in," which, but for God's upholding hand, would have proved waters to drown in. I have endured tribulation from many hails. Sharp bodily pain succeeded mental depression, and this was accompanied both by bereavement and affliction in the person of one dear as life. The waters rolled in continually, wave upon wave. I do not mention this to exact sympathy, but simply to let the reader see that I am no dry-land sailor. I have traversed full many a time those oceans which are not Pacific: I know the roll of the billows, and the rush of the winds. Never were the promises of Jehovah so precious to me as at this hour. Some of them I never understood till now; I had not reached the date at which they matured, for I was not myself mature enough to perceive their meaning.
How much more wonderful is the Bible to me now than it was a few months ago! In obeying the LORD, and bearing His reproach outside the camp, I have not received new promises; but the result to me is much the same as if I had done so, for the old ones have opened up to me with richer stores. Specially has the Word of the LORD to His servant Jeremiah sounded exceedingly sweet in mine ears. His lot it was to speak to those who would not hear, or hearing, would nor believe. His was the sorrow which comes of disappointed love, and resolute loyalty; he would have turned his people from their errors, but he would not himself quit the way of the LORD. For him there were words of deep sustaining power, which kept his mind from failing where nature unaided must have sunk. These and such like golden sentences of grace I have loved more than my necessary food, and with them I have enriched these pages.
John Bunyan
John Bunyan's 17th-century book The Pilgrim's Progress is classic literature's most famous Christian allegory. Bunyan grew up in a village outside Bedford, England, the son of a tinker (or brazier -- a mender of metal household utensils). Initially he followed his father's trade, but in the late 1640s a spiritual awakening caused Bunyan to give up his "ungodly" ways and become a devoted student of biblical scripture. By the end of the 1650s he was a popular preacher and prolific writer who used plain language to spell out a theology in the tradition of Martin Luther and John Calvin. He was a prominent member of a nonconformist Baptist church in Bedford until his refusal to give up preaching without a license led to his imprisonment in 1660. He spent the next twelve years in jail, preaching to inmates and writing sermons, poems, essays and books. After his release he published the first of several editions of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), an allegory in which a character named Christian encounters various perils on his way to Heaven. An entertaining read and Protestant teaching tool, the book became a standard of English literature and one of the most reprinted religious texts in the world. Bunyan's other books include The Holy City (1665), Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) and The Holy War (1682).
A.W. Pink
A.W. Pink
Arthur Walkington Pink (1886-1952) evangelist and Biblical scholar
A.W. Pink was born in Nottingham, England on April 1, 1886 and became a Christian in his early 20's. Though born to Christian parents, prior to conversion he migrated into a Theosophical society (an occult gnostic group popular in England during that time), and quickly rose in prominence within their ranks. His conversion came from his father's patient admonitions from Scripture. It was the verse, Proverbs 14:12, 'there is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death,' which particularly struck his heart and compelled him to renounce Theosophy and follow Jesus.
Desiring to grow in knowledge of the Bible, Pink immigrated to the United States to study at Moody Bible Institute. In 1916 he married Vera E. Russell, who was from Kentucky. However, he left after just two months for Colorado, then California, then Britain. From 1925 to 1928 he served in Australia, including as pastor of two congregations from 1926 to 1928, when he returned to England, and to the United States the following year. He eventually pastored churches Colorado, California, Kentucky and South Carolina.
In 1922 he started a monthly magazine entitled Studies in Scriptures which circulated among English-speaking Christians worldwide, though only to a relatively small circulation list of around 1,000.
In 1934 Pink returned to England, and within a few years turned his Christian service to writing books and pamphlets. Pink died in Stornoway, Scotland on July 15, 1952. The cause of death was anemia.
After Pink's death, his works were republished by the Banner of Truth Trust and reached a much wider audience as a result. Biographer Iain Murray observes of Pink, "the widespread circulation of his writings after his death made him one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century." His writing sparked a revival of expository preaching and focused readers' hearts on biblical living.
The Sovereignty of God
Gleanings from Paul
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The World: In It/Of It/In It But Not Of It - Oswald Chambers
The World: In It/Of It/In It But Not Of It - Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_pl<wbr>ay_list?p=10F140787559EB2B
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.
Although Oswald Chambers wrote only one book, Baffled to Fight Better, more than thirty titles bear his name. With this one exception, published works were compiled by Mrs. Chambers, a court stenographer, from her verbatim shorthand notes of his messages taken during their seven years of marriage. For half a century following her husband's death she labored to give his words to the world.
My Utmost For His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic.
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Christian hymns, devotionals praise and worship songs, sermon excerpts.
Charles Spurgeon: Devotional Morning & Evening: Daily Readings
John Newton
Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest
John Owen
A.W. Pink
Matthew Henry
James Smith
Thomas Brooks
John MacDuff
Jonathan Edwards
Samuel Davies
J.R. Miller
Thomas Boston
William Dyer
Mary Winslow
Cornelius Tyree
Quiet Talks on Prayer - S.D. Gordon
Quiet Talks on Prayer - S.D. Gordon
"An open life, an open hand, open upward, is the pipe line of communication between the heart of God and this poor befooled old world. Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out."
In the early 1900s, S.D. Gordon was a widely traveled speaker in high demand. A prolific author, he wrote more than 25 devotional books, most with the phrase "Quiet Talks" in the title. His first book sold half a million copies over 40 years! He died in 1936.
E.W. Kenyon said that "S.D. Gordon is a sporadic outburst of divine grace. He is unusual, as are all of God's rare tools... he is perfectly balanced in the Word and in the Spirit. He represents that rare but vanishing class of spiritually minded men of the last generation."
"The Treasury of Quiet Talks Selections from S.D. Gordon" (1951) by John W. Bradbury gives this brief biography (adapted): "Samuel Dickey Gordon ministered the deep things of God, he was not an ordained minister, He could boast no academic degrees, he was never doctored [he never received an earned or honorary doctorate]. Theological concepts he obtained from his Bible. A plain man, controlled by a deep desire to edify God's people, he won the respect of the learned and at the same time the affection of the simple.
"Gordon lived a long and useful life. He was born in Philadelphia August 12, 1859 and died June 1936. A public school education was all the academic training he had. But, as a young man, he was hard working , consecrated and sought the best God had for him. He served as assistant secretary of the Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association in 1884-86 so efficiently that he became state secretary for the YMCA in Ohio, serving from 1886 to 1895. In this period he developed a quiet style of devotional speaking which was quite the opposite of the powerful forensics which dominated the pulpit style of that period.
"Gordon then took four years to visit the mission fields of the Orient and to tour Europe on speaking missions. His quiet manner, simplicity, illustrative quality and gentle spirit won for him a great following wherever he went. "Quiet Talks on Power" was his first book, published by Fleming H. Revell in 1901. Gordon was then forty-two. His "Quiet Talks on Prayer" followed in 1904, "Quiet Talks on Service" and "Quiet Talks about Jesus", in 1906. The demand for his books had grown so great that he could produce two in a year and follow thereafter with one series of Quiet Talks each year until 1915 when the first World War disrupted everything. After the war he resumed his Quiet Talks in books but not at the same speed. Altogether he produced twenty-five books, twenty-two of which belonged to the Quiet Talks series.
"An incessant and tireless itinerant, Gordon never lacked for opportunities to preach. He never called himself a preacher, preferring the title of lecturer. In a real sense he was unique. His manner of speaking, never dull, always illustrated by parabolic stories, had gripping power to hold the attention and stir the heart."
His brother, James Logan Gordon, was an ordained minister, and served three pastorates in Canada and then at the First Congregational Church in San Francisco.
On Antichrist
On Antichrist
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
The Pursuit of God - AW Tozer
A.W. Tozer playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_pl<wbr>ay_list?p=66987CD6E419E258
If you have read or heard classic "deeper life" Christian authors and/or preachers, i.e. Watchman Nee, Andrew Murray, A.B. Simpson, Leonard Ravenhill, then you will quite likely find this sermon by A.W. Tozer very edifying. May you be blessed.
Because A.W. Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) lived in the presence of God he saw clearly and he spoke as a prophet to the church. He sought for God's honor with the zeal of Elijah and mourned with Jeremiah at the apostasy of God's people. But he was not a prophet of despair. His writings are messages of concern. They expose the weaknesses of the church and denounce compromise. They warn and exhort. But they are messages of hope as well, for God is always there, ever faithful to restore and to fulfill His Word to those who hear and obey.
Shortly before his death, Tozer wrote: "Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne." I am convinced that Aiden Wilson Tozer himself was such a man.
In his 1948 classic The Pursuit of God, Tozer challenged the stiff and wooden quality of many Christian lives. He noted: "Complacency is the deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people." Indeed, Tozer believed that thirst for God was the sign of coming revival.
Tozer's passion for a deeper knowledge of God led him to study the great devotional writers of the past. "These people know God, and I want to know what they know about God and how they came to know it," he observed. Prayer and worship were the hallmarks of his life. One biographer states that his preaching as well as his writings were simply an extension of his prayer life. Another noted that Tozer spent more time on his knees than at his desk.
He called for a return to astonishment and wonder at the majesty of God. Then he added: "The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much within the constitution;very well-behaved, very denominational and very much one of us."
In modern evangelicalism, contended Tozer, we work, we have our agendas--in fact, we have almost everything except the spirit of true worship. He defined worship as a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe, astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of the unspeakable Majesty. He reminded the pastors, "We're here to be worshippers first and workers only second; Out of enraptured, admiring, adoring souls God does His work. The work done by a worshipper will have eternity in it."
Tozer believed that worship rises and falls with our concept of God and that if there was one terrible disease in the modern church, it was that we do not see God as great as He is: "We're too familiar with God. ...that is why I do not believe in these half-converted cowboys who call God `the Man Upstairs'."
In the Preface to The Knowledge of the Holy, his last book, Tozer stated how important our view of God is: "The church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men. .. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error."
Tozer addressed the state of the evangelical church even more bluntly in Keys to the Deeper Life. In a chapter entitled "No Revival Without Reformation", he stated: "A widespread revival of the kind of Christianity we know today in America might prove to be a moral tragedy from which we would not recover in a hundred years." The imperative need of the day, he affirmed, was not simply revival but a radical reformation that went to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies: "Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before."
With revival, said Tozer, would come a renewed spirit of worship which was not the result of engineering or manipulation. It would come out of a high and holy view of God as portrayed in Scripture, not the God who has been "abridged, reduced, modified, edited, changed and amended until He is no longer the God whom Isaiah saw, high and lifted up".
Tozer called the doctrine of the Holy Spirit "buried dynamite". Yet he always insisted that the Spirit and the Word operate in harmony. He exhorted the overzealous to a warm heart and a cool head: "The history of revivals in the Church reveals how harmful the hot head can be....These are days of great religious turmoil. Let love burn on with increasing fervour, but bring every act to the quiet test of wisdom. Keep the fire in the furnace where it belongs. An overheated chimney will create more excitement than a well-controlled furnace, but it is likely to burn the house down. Let the rule be: a hot furnace but a cool chimney." -Walter Unger
Puritan Prayers
The Old English Puritan was such an one, that honored God above all, and under God gave every one his due. His first care was to serve God, and therein he did not what was good in his own, but in God's sight, making the word of God the rule of his worship. He was much in prayer; with it he began and closed the day. It is he was much exercised in his closet, family and public assembly. He esteemed that manner of prayer best, whereby the gift of God, expressions were varied according to present wants and occasions; yet did he not account set forms unlawful.
- John Geree (The Character of an Old English Puritan)
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