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LOWELL TOZER

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 CONTENTS

Preface
1. The Root of the Righteous
2. We Must Give Time to God
3. God Is Easy to Live With
4. Listen to the Man Who Listens to God
5. We Must Hear Worthily
6. That Utilitarian Christ
7. On Receiving Admonition
8. The Great God Entertainment
9. Bible Taught or Spirit Taught?
10. The Terror of the Lord
11. No Regeneration without Reformation
12. Faith Is a Perturbing Thing
13. True Faith Brings Committal
14. The Great Disparity
15. Our Enemy Contentment
16. Christ Is the Pattern
17. The Cross Is a Radical Thing
18. We Must Die If We Would Live
19. Christ Died for Our Hearts
20. We Stand in Christs Triumph
21. To Be or to Do
22. Make Room for Mystery
23. The Whole Life Must Pray
24. No Saviorhood without Lordship
25. A Sweet Lute, Sweetly Played
26. The All-importance of Motive
27. The Presence More Important Than the Program
28. The Worlds Most Tragic Waste
29. The Hunger of the Wilderness
30. Our Fruit Will Be What We Are
31. Needed: A Baptism of Clear Seeing
32. Narrow Mansions
33. The Sanctification of Our Desires
34. In Praise of Disbelief
35. Thankfulness as a Moral Therapeutic
36. Understanding Those Dry Spells
37. About Hindrances
38. The Uses of Suffering
39. Praise God for the Furnace
40. Victory in the Guise of Defeat
41. Love of the Unseen Is Possible
42. Something beyond Song
43. Three Degrees of Love
44. We Need Cool Heads
45. We Can Afford to Wait
46. God, the First and the Last
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