Tozer Speaks to Students
Overview
These are messages delivered by Mr. Tozer at chapel services at Wheaton College during the 1940s and 1950s. Transcribed from tapes, Tozer’s message is practical and powerful, challenging his young hearers to pursue God. This is life-changing reading for contemporary students. Tozer had a profound impact on college students and considered it part of his calling to encourage and equip young people to glorify God and fulfill the Great Commission.
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Product Details
- Title: Tozer Speaks to Students
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 1998
- Pages: 168
About A. W. Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) was born on a small farm in what is now Newburg, PA. His family moved to Akron, Ohio, when he was just a young boy. At the age of 17, Tozer heard a street preacher, responded to the calling of Christ, and began his lifelong pursuit of God. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church, in 1919. He transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago in 1928, and his ministry continued there for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station. In the 1940s Tozer was invited to speak at Wheaton College, and seldom a year passed after World War II that he didn’t preach in the college’s Pierce Chapel. In 1950 he became the editor of The Alliance Life magazine and served in that capacity until his death.
Self-taught, with no formal Bible training, Tozer has been called a twentieth-century prophet within his own lifetime. Through years of diligent study and constant prayer, he sought the mind of God. A master craftsman in the use of the English language, he was able to write in a simple, cogent style the principles of truth he had learned. For Tozer, “there was no substitute for knowing God firsthand.” He wrote many of his books with one idea in mind—that his reader would achieve the heart’s true goal in God and maintain that relationship with Him.
Tozer moved to Toronto in 1959 and spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church. He and his wife, Ada, lived a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle and let much of the royalties from his books go to those in need. The Tozers had seven children, six boys and one girl. James L. Snyder, said of Tozer that his “preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life. He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them.”
Top Highlights
“It is my belief that the forgotten, or at least neglected, doctrine of our day, the most important one of them all after atonement itself, is that we, as God’s redeemed people, have a right to expect and receive from Him by faith a power that will do in us what all the poor religions of the world can never do. This power will bring to us the shining face of Jesus and make Him real within us, so that not only the moral, theological and ethical qualities are present, but also the mystical quality—the sight of the face of Jesus Christ within the human breast.” (Page 16)
“I hope you know better than that, because a Spirit-filled Christian is not a deluxe edition; he is a normal Christian. If he is anything less he is sick. A normal Christian is a person whose sins have been forgiven, who has not only a theological knowledge that his sins have been forgiven, but has also a deep consciousness of it. This is not an unusual Christian, or he ought not to be.” (Page 19)
“Christianity, my friend, is dedicated to the adoration of Jesus Christ. It is not only to save you from the consequences of your sin, but to give you that which you were created to enjoy. It is to give you God. It is to break God down for you, so to speak, so that your created heart can get hold of God, so that the love of Jesus Christ will be real to you.” (Page 99)
“One of my prayers is, ‘Oh, Lord Jesus, help me to feel exactly as you feel about people. Help me to love them exactly as you love them and in the same way that you love them.’” (Page 69)
“If you will not have Him as your Lord then you do not have Him as your Savior, and you are self-deceived” (Page 59)
- Title: Tozer Speaks to Students: Chapel Messages Preached at Wheaton College
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Print Publication Date: 1998
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Universities and colleges › Sermons; College students › Religious life
- ISBNs: 9780875097473, 0875097472
- Resource ID: LLS:TOZERSPKST
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:28:20Z
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was a dynamic preacher, prolific writer, and a no-nonsense man of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer responded to the call of Christ at the age of 17. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church.
In 1928, he transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago where he served for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station and was often invited to speak at Wheaton College in Pierce Chapel. Tozer spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto and the editor of The Alliance Life magazine.
Tozer authored over 40 books, including The Attributes of God, Volume One, Tozer on Christian Leadership, We Travel an Appointed Way, The Pursuit of God, and God’s Pursuit of Man.