Echoes From Eden: The Voices of God Calling Man
Overview
Our world is fallen, sick and sinful, Tozer tells us, but God continues to call sinful people to repentance and salvation. In this series of sermon excerpts, Tozer elaborates on the voices God uses: the witness of the Holy Spirit, the blood of Jesus, human conscience, reason, accountability, judgment, and, of course, love. Since the Garden of Eden God’s voice has echoed through the years to bring His fallen children back to Him.
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Product Details
- Title: Echoes From Eden: The Voices of God Calling Man
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 1994
- Pages: 139
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
“So, those who are morally wise do hear the entreating voice of God, They always have and they always will—they are hearing that voice now.” (Page 106)
“Throughout all of man’s years, ‘Adam, where are you?’ has been the faithful call.” (Page 9)
“When God looks on His sun and His moon and all the stars that He has made, His lakes and His rivers, His mountains and His seas, God loves them because they remind Him of His own wisdom and power that gave them being. But when God looks at the seraphim and the cherubim and the holy angels before the throne, He loves them because they remind Him of His own holiness. They are holy angels and their holiness is derived from God, God loves in them that which came from Himself. God can properly and with moral propriety love the holy angels because they are holy beings.” (Pages 13–14)
“Exclude God from your thinking and you will find yourself with no sense of moral values—you will have no standard of right or wrong. Exclude God from your thinking and good becomes the same as evil and evil is the same as good. Your lie will become truth and truth will be as a lie. Exclude God and it becomes impossible to prove that love is any better than hate. Exclude God from your thinking and you will not know whether life is any better than death, or whether anything is anything!” (Pages 40–41)
“The Trinity’s three fountains, eternal, infinite, pouring without measure into each other from the bottomless, boundless, shore-less sea of perfect love and bliss.” (Page 13)
- Title: Echoes from Eden: The Voices of God Calling Man
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Print Publication Date: 1994
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Christian living
- ISBNs: 9780875095660, 9780875092270, 0875095666, 0875092276
- Resource ID: LLS:ECHOEDEN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:36:01Z
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.