The Best of A. W. Tozer, Book Two

by A. W. Tozer

Publisher:

WingSpread

, 2007

Overview

Tozer wrote with a passion that sprang up from a soul athirst for God. He was not afraid to expose man’s frailties, nor was he hesitant to reveal what God and His sovereignty can do for those who seek Him. This collection of 44 more chapters from Tozer’s “best” captures the message he so passionately taught and lived: surrender to Christ, get to know God personally and grow to become like Him. Warren Wiersbe, who compiled this text, says, “Happy is the Christian who has a Tozer book handy when his soul is parched and he feels God is far away.”

Product Details

• Title: The Best of A. W. Tozer, Book Two
• Author: A.W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 290

About Aiden Wilson 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.”

Contents

Top Highlights

“Genuine holiness can be put into the place of testing without fear. Whenever there is a breakdown of holiness, that is proof there never was any real degree of holiness in the first place.” (Page 200)

“We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.” (Page 55)

“The apostles not only taught truth but contended for its purity against any who would corrupt it” (Page 172)

“To say that God is immutable is to say that He never differs from Himself. The concept of a growing or developing God is not found in the Scriptures.” (Page 13)

“The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scriptures.” (Page 178)

Product Details

• Title: The Best of A. W. Tozer, Book Two
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2008
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Meditations; Religion › Christian life--Spiritual growth
• ISBNs: 9781600660719, 1600660711
• Resource ID: LLS:BSTTOZER2
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:22:46Z

About A. W. Tozer

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.