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Summary: A Personal Library Must
Review: Here is another book focusing its readers on the Person of God. It is very well written and covers many, though not all of God's revealed attributes. Any person looking to study the Person of God to know Him more intimately (that should be every born-again Christian) needs to read this book. Place this book next to Pink's "Gleaning in the Godhead" and Packer's "Knowing God" and you will have a 3-book library on the Person of God probably unsurpassed at this time.
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Summary: Breaking God out of the Box!
Review: I know for myself, I often limit my view of who God is or what He can do in my life. Growing up in the church...I thought I knew it all. However, as I was reading this book, I found that I had placed God in a box. It was very neat, organized, and digestible....this box of mine.
As I was reading this book about 10 yrs ago...I realized what I had done. Page by page...I began to see where I limited God in my mind & in turn....my surrendering control of my life to Him. I wanted something neat and organized, but life is messy. Thank goodness God is so good...and God is sooooooo big...He can deal with that! Knowledge of the Holy allowed me to see this.
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Summary: Excellent book, must read for serious Christians
Review: I think a lot of what is said in this book has been lost in the modern era of feelings based Christianity. I'm teaching a 6 week discipleship class based on this book. I think every serious Christian should read Tozer and C. S. Lewis.
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Summary: Essential For Understanding Who God Really Is
Review: It is important in this modern age, where more christians are turning away from the God revealed in Scripture, to have a grasp of who God is and what He is like. With our human, limited understanding of spiritual concepts as deep as those covered by Tozer, this book is nonetheless useful in focusing the mind on God Himself. It is a great resource and reference tool for those who wish to enter into a deeper relationship with God.
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Summary: to know my God
Review: It was required for a class but how awesome it was to read about my God! I had been saved a week previously to reading it. It helped to understand the limitless God. My God is BIG.
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Summary: Knowing God by what He is
Review: Much like an intimate encounter with God, Tozer's book does a wonderful job of humbling the reader and then filling him/her with great hope and joy. The idea behind this book is that we can't know God. Our finite minds can never truly understand the infinitude of the all-mighty sovereign Lord. But, and here comes the hope and joy, we can know the attributes of God. We can know His goodness. We can know His holiness. We can know His wisdom. His strength. His omniscience. God is alive. He is everywhere doing all things at all times. Perfectly. And while we might not always understand what God is doing in our lives or in the world, we can be confident that He is at work and whatever it is He is doing is exaclty what needs to be done, exactly the way it needs to be done, exactly when it all needs to happen. This book will build your faith, and help you rest in the peace of the Lord. You'll come away from reading "Knowledge of the Holy" knowing that He is inherently and infinitely good and loving and kind and powerful and present. And you will be grateful that all of His divine attributes are at work in your life.
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Summary: Knowing God by what He is
Review: Much like an intimate encounter with God, Tozer's book does a wonderful job of humbling the reader and then filling him/her with great hope and joy. The idea behind this book is that we can't know God. Our finite minds can never truly understand the infinitude of the all-mighty sovereign Lord. But, and here comes the hope and joy, we can know the attributes of God. We can know His goodness. We can know His holiness. We can know His wisdom. His strength. His omniscience. God is alive. He is everywhere doing all things at all times. Perfectly. And while we might not always understand what God is doing in our lives or in the world, we can be confident that He is at work and whatever it is He is doing is exaclty what needs to be done, exactly the way it needs to be done, exactly when it all needs to happen. This book will build your faith, and help you rest in the peace of the Lord. You'll come away from reading "Knowledge of the Holy" knowing that He is inherently and infinitely good and loving and kind and powerful and present. And you will be grateful that all of His divine attributes are at work in your life.
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Summary: Tozer Understands the Character of God
Review: Often our spiritual growth can be described in terms of something new we are learning about the character of God. Although information alone will not transform us, true information which we seek to integrate into our lives can be an excellent starting point for growth. Pound for pound no other book contains such powerful descriptions of the attributes of God. The "Insights per Square Inch" rating is off the charts on this one! The first chapter "Why We Must Think Rightly About God" is absolutely amazing. Tozer writes "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." The rest of the book is an application of that principle. Each chapter begins with a profound prayer and ends with an appropriate hymn or poem, making this book abundantly readable. I've used this book on dozens of occasions in my own ministry, and have encouraged (or assigned) many people to read it for themselves.
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Summary: Tozer challenges us to know the unknowable God!
Review: This book brings the reader to holy ground indeed. To dare to know the all-powerful, all-knowing, infinite, eternal God is beyond human capacity. Yet Tozer, in appropriate awe of God, tells us that our heart can lead us where our intellect cannot. "That God can be known by the soul in tender personal experience while remaining infinitely aloof from the curious eyes of reason constitutes a paradox best described as Darkness to the intellect But sunshine to the heart." says Tozer quoting a Faber poem/saying. It is easy to say terms like life-changing in our glib spin-oriented world. But the challenge of this book got at me in a way few books (outside the Bible) have. Tozer's statement about the church "Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech. She can never escape the self-disclosure of her witness concerning God." touched me on a personal level too. If you get one Christian book this year - make it "Knowledge of the Holy"
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Summary: Would We Had This Knowledge!
Review: This book has to be one of the best A.W. Tozer ever wrote. His knowledge of the Holy has certainly put us to shame. We might have all the conveninces of life, better equipment, faster this and faster that, but we LACK the silent time, the place to be along to get to KNOW this Holy One. I highly recommend that you get a copy of this book and READ IT, and REREAD IT and let it soak in!
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