The Return

Review: The Real God: How He Longs for You to See Him Chip Ingram Baker Books 2016 Ingram says up front that his desire for those that read this book is “to engage the reader in a lifelong pursuit of knowing, seeing, and experiencing the Real God.” (15)   The Real God?   He means the one found in Scripture who has not been conformed to my ideas or desires.   So, is saying that I might have some distorted idea of God?   The nerve!   Yeah, that’s where I started with this book.   Doesn’t give an author much room to work.   I put the book down, went on vacation, and then came back to it, more just to get it off my to-do list than anything else.    Not only did I discover that I needed a vacation, but that over time I had acquired a distorted view of the God of the Bible.   Time for some adjustment, and this book provided the means for that adjustment.   Ingram uses an older book by Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, ...

Review: Alive in the Spirit: Experiencing the Presence and Power of God A.W. Tozer Bethany House Publishers 2016 James L. Snyder has compiled and edited several of Tozer’s sermons related to the Holy Spirit that have not been published in the past.   He had been given the rights to do so by the A.W. Tozer estate based on his prior work on Tozer. He chose this selection from more than four hundred audio recordings of the author’s work, a rather daunting task.   The arrangement chosen for this book allows the reader to progress through Tozer’s teachings about the Spirit and His function within the believing community.   Even though the material comes from the the mid 1900’s it is as relevant today as it was then.   Maybe because the author does not venture into areas that are not well supported by the Bible itself.    He does point out the differences between man powered efforts and Spirit empowered efforts that still hold true today as...