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http://streaming.ccphilly.org/video.aspx?id=SAM922 http://streaming.ccphilly.org/video.aspx?id=SAM923 http://streaming.ccphilly.org/video.aspx?id=SAM924 Three excellent teachings from the book of Colossians that are quite challenging. Well, I thoroughly enjoyed them anyway. What do you reckon of them?

The Spiritual Person by A.W. Tozer A LMOST EVERY CHRISTIAN wants to be spiritual, but few know what the experience means. A lot of unfounded comfort could be swept away and much true consolation received if we could get straightened out. It is difficult for us to shake off the notion that a person is as spiritual as he or she feels. Our basic spirituality seldom accords our feelings. There are many carnal persons whose religious emotions are sensitive to every impression and who manage to keep themselves on a fairly high plane of inward enjoyment but who have no marks of godliness upon them. They have a low boiling point and can get heated up over almost anything religious at a moment's notice. Their tears are close to the surface and their voices carry a world of emotional content. Such have a reputation for being spiritual, and they themselves may easily believe they are. But they are not necessarily so. Spiritual people are indifferent to their feelings--they live by fai...

"The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of fundamentalist Christians. They might hedge around the question if they were asked bluntly to declare their position, but their conduct gives them away. They are facing both ways, enjoying Christ "and the world, gleefully telling everyone that accepting Jesus does not require them to give up their fun – Christianity is just the jolliest thing imaginable. The "worship" growing out of such a view of life is as far off centre as the view itself – a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks. " (found in chapter 1) http://www.calvarypo.org/HANDS/0692.pdf A Scared World Needs a Fearless Church by A.W. Tozer N O ONE CAN BLAME PEOPLE for being afraid. The world is in for a baptism of fire, and whether or not this present conflict is the beginning of the ordeal, such a baptism will surely come sooner...

"The Beauty within Bodily health is beautiful. Mental vigour is beautiful. But heart-purity is the glory of all loveliness. The heart makes the life. The inner fashions the outer. So, above all things, be pure-hearted. That you may be pure-hearted let Christ more and more into your life, that He may fill all your soul, and that His Spirit may permeate all your being. That the beauty of the Lord may be upon you, that the winning charm of God's loveliness may shine in your features, you must first have the beauty of Christ within you. The transfiguration must come from within. Only a holy, beautiful heart can make a holy, beautiful character." Quite a challenge isn't it?

Ultima Veritas by Washington Gladden     In the bitter waves of woe,     Beaten and tossed about     By the sullen winds that blow     From the desolate shores of doubt,--     When the anchors that faith had cast     Are dragging in the gale,     I am quietly holding fast     To the things that cannot fail:     I know that right is right;     That it is not good to lie;     That love is better than spite,     And a neighbour than a spy;     I know that passion needs     The leash of a sober mind;     I know that generous deeds     Some sure reward will find;     That the rulers must obey;     That the givers shall increase;   ...