Catching Lightning
We’ve been trying to catch lightning in a bottle we can sell, when we already have been given lightning in a book that’s free, if we will but open it and release it’s Spirit.
-Leonard Sweet, “So Beautiful
You can find another great quote here.
The Knowledge of the Holy: A Follow Up (Part IV)
[ Editor’s Note: This is the last post in a follow up to our 23 day journey in “The Knowledge of the Holy.” Please stick around all the way to the end of the article where I ask you to do something really scary.]
Last week I started doing some follow up on our 23-day “Knowledge of the Holy” series. We’ve already spent some time looking at other resources that are similar to “The Knowledge of the Holy” and looking at some of the comments posted in the final days of the series that I thought were important to highlight. I want to finish this “wrap-up” looking at one other important thing that happened during our series: we gained a bunch of new readers a long the way.
This is no small thing. My hope for this blog has been that it would develop into more than a place for me to post my thoughts online, but into a community of people devoted to Jesus who would encourage each other to be the church God is building. Now, don’t get me wrong–we’ve had followers before, but through the past month more regular readers have joined in than have joined in whole years operating this blog.
Can I just stop here, and say thanks? It means a lot that people of like hearts have started to read. I know there’s a lot to read out there. The fact that you stop by means a lot.
Now, here’s the scary part:
In order for some kind of community to form, we should know each other. Some of you I know because you stop by and comment regularly (I’m looking at you riversflowdown, David Bolton, and David) but some of you keep coming back and I’m not sure who you are (I’m looking at you Menlo Park, California, Ashburn Virginia, and Mountainview, California!). So help me out! In the comment section below, write me a little blurb about you. Nothing too specific, just answer the following questions:
- What is your first name?
- What originally brought you here?
- If you have a blog, tell us about it and give us the address so we can check it out.
- Where do you want your walk with Jesus to be in the next 12 months?
So, to make this less scary, I will post my response to these questions as the first comment. But you go do it, too! Again, thanks for taking this journey with me. It will be fun and scary at the same time, I promise! 🙂
The Knowledge of the Holy: A Follow Up (Part III)
My wife’s copy of “The Knowledge of the Holy.” It was already kind of in bad condition. Our series made it worse (err…more loved).
If you’ve been following along, we just finished a 23-day series reading through A.W. Tozer’s book, “The Knowledge of the Holy.” I mentioned in the first follow up post that several readers wrote in during the last few days of the series with some comments that I thought were helpful follow ups to the journey we went on. My hope to day is to highlight a few of those comments that readers might not have seen if they aren’t “into” reading the comment section.
First up is “riversflowdown” who writes in and says: “My favorite thought in the book is not found in the chapters but the Preface. In the fourth paragraph is a statement that I have been pondering for about 4 months. “Be still, and know that I am God.” I have a thought that i will not quickly move from. Knowing God can never be grasped from any other position that that of being still!”
I love this comment and I think one of my mistakes I made as I did this series was I didn’t give a day to the preface. It was great and if you haven’t read it and get a chance to, you should go back and do it. Also, I know that the idea expressed here, that God can be known only as we quiet our hearts is true to Tozer’s experience (as well as Scripture) because Tozer was known for being a lover of the mystic writers (he quotes them a number of times in the book) and for having developed his own discipline of waiting on the Lord.
Next up is fellow blogger David Bolton who wrote in: “During this time I was also able to listen to the audiobook, A Passion for God – The Spiritual Journey of A.W. Tozer by Lyle Dorsett. This was a great background read to this series. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to know more about this profoundly spiritual, yet still very human, modern-day prophet.” If you’re interested in following up with David’s suggestion, you can find A Passion for God by clicking on the link.
There were also a lot of good comments by others who shared their thoughts along the way. Feel free to look through the series and discover what others were saying. Tomorrow I’ll spend some time talking about how the series changed our readership a bit and try an exercise to get to know some of our new readers.
Cluster Map
Pursuing Glory 