Phew! Now that Sliker's FSM class "Biblical Foundations of Eschatology" is over, I’ll be able to get back to a more regular posting schedule. It’s been a great 3 weeks, and this semester’s students are awesome. We also recruited about 40 new Omega course small group leaders to start end-times study groups all across the city and the missions base!

I’m getting ready to post part of of my prophetic music series, and also hoping to update my audio resources page with some new teachings as well.

I’ve recently been reading “The Pursuit of God” by A.W. Tozer on recommendation from my buddy Tyson. If you haven’t read it yet, definitely pick it up or read it online here. Here are some of the good quotes from the first few chapters:

“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the `and' lies our great woe. If we omit the `and', we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.”

In talking about Abraham’s obedience to sacrifice his firstborn Isaac:

“I have said that Abraham possessed nothing. Yet was not this poor man rich? Everything he had owned before [the Lord told him to sacrifice Isaac] was still his to enjoy: sheep, camels, herds, and goods of every sort. He had also his wife and his friends, and best of all he had his son Isaac safe by his side. He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. There is the sweet theology of the heart which can be learned only in the school of renunciation. The books on systematic theology overlook this, but the wise will understand.”

“Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. As well try to instruct leprosy out of our system. There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free. We must invite the cross to do its deadly work within us. We must bring our self-sins to the cross for judgment. We must prepare ourselves for an ordeal of suffering in some measure like that through which our Saviour passed when He suffered under Pontius Pilate.”

This book is provoking my heart! Have you read it? More later…