Comments for The Tells of Tim http://timwitten.wordpress.com ...stirring up by way of reminder Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:06:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on tepid obedience by TimWitten http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/tepid-obedience/#comment-97 TimWitten Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:06:54 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1349#comment-97 Blaine, I love words, I hate words. May God strengthen and lead you forward. Blaine, I love words, I hate words. May God strengthen and lead you forward.

]]> Comment on tepid obedience by blainemonster http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/tepid-obedience/#comment-96 blainemonster Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:52:46 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1349#comment-96 I hate the fact that I'm so susceptible to doing "just enough" to get by. Thanks for your words. I hate the fact that I’m so susceptible to doing “just enough” to get by. Thanks for your words.

]]> Comment on Play it safe? by cjbooth85 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/play-it-safe/#comment-95 cjbooth85 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:47:10 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1343#comment-95 Hey Tim Thanks so much for your encouragement and prayers. As you know, we've been through (and are in the middle of, really) a rough patch and your prayers mean so much. Forgotten God is good. Glad I read it; am planning on starting it again after Christmas (unless my wife has acted upon my casually dropped hints about certain other 'interesting books'...). Forgotten God is loaded with juicy morsels like this from page 37: "It really is an astounding truth that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. He lives in me. I do not know what the Spirit will do or where He'll lead me each time I invite Him to guide me. But I am tired of living in a way that looks exactly like the people who do not have the Holy Spirit of God living in them. I want to be different today from what I was yesterday as the fruit of the Spirit becomes more manifest in me." And this from page 142: "I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know that I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed." It's not a technical book (for that, go to Tozer's The Counsellor!) on the Holy Spirit, but more of a challenge to get over yourself and get on with laying yourself out before God and going with His program. I'll probably try to fit in a post about it if I can get some time & energy........I liked the book a lot and I'd recommend it warmly. Hey Tim

Thanks so much for your encouragement and prayers. As you know, we’ve been through (and are in the middle of, really) a rough patch and your prayers mean so much.

Forgotten God is good. Glad I read it; am planning on starting it again after Christmas (unless my wife has acted upon my casually dropped hints about certain other ‘interesting books’…). Forgotten God is loaded with juicy morsels like this from page 37:

“It really is an astounding truth that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. He lives in me. I do not know what the Spirit will do or where He’ll lead me each time I invite Him to guide me. But I am tired of living in a way that looks exactly like the people who do not have the Holy Spirit of God living in them. I want to be different today from what I was yesterday as the fruit of the Spirit becomes more manifest in me.”

And this from page 142:
“I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know that I couldn’t be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn’t come through, I am screwed.”

It’s not a technical book (for that, go to Tozer’s The Counsellor!) on the Holy Spirit, but more of a challenge to get over yourself and get on with laying yourself out before God and going with His program.

I’ll probably try to fit in a post about it if I can get some time & energy……..I liked the book a lot and I’d recommend it warmly.

]]> Comment on Play it safe? by mike ruel http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/play-it-safe/#comment-94 mike ruel Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:47:37 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1343#comment-94 he can't be a pastor, he is wearing jeans and a T-shirt. ;-) great stuff, Tim. Thanks...I needed to have my hands pried off the beam. he can’t be a pastor, he is wearing jeans and a T-shirt. ;-)

great stuff, Tim. Thanks…I needed to have my hands pried off the beam.

]]> Comment on Play it safe? by TimWitten http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/play-it-safe/#comment-93 TimWitten Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:54:28 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1343#comment-93 Hi Chris, I noted on your blog that you were reading Forgotten God. While at the men's retraeat at ABC, two friends highly recommended I read Crazy Love by Chan. I hadn't heard of him before but I've been downloading and listening to groupings of his sermons and I'm finding him a blessing. I picked up both books the other day and gave FG to my wife (with a bunch of other books) to wrap up as my Christmas gifts (grin), so I'm tracking with you :) Any 'one' big takeaway that you had from Crazy Love? Did you do any blogs on it? Hi Chris, I noted on your blog that you were reading Forgotten God. While at the men’s retraeat at ABC, two friends highly recommended I read Crazy Love by Chan. I hadn’t heard of him before but I’ve been downloading and listening to groupings of his sermons and I’m finding him a blessing. I picked up both books the other day and gave FG to my wife (with a bunch of other books) to wrap up as my Christmas gifts (grin), so I’m tracking with you :)
Any ‘one’ big takeaway that you had from Crazy Love? Did you do any blogs on it?

]]> Comment on Play it safe? by cjbooth85 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/play-it-safe/#comment-92 cjbooth85 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:42:10 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1343#comment-92 I'm 3/4 of the way through "Forgotten God." Life changing. I heartily recommend it. I plan on starting it again as soon as I finish! Buy it for yourself, then gift-wrap it, open it Christmas morning and ask, "Oh, how did you know I wanted this?" 8-) I’m 3/4 of the way through “Forgotten God.” Life changing. I heartily recommend it. I plan on starting it again as soon as I finish! Buy it for yourself, then gift-wrap it, open it Christmas morning and ask, “Oh, how did you know I wanted this?” 8-)

]]> Comment on Play it safe? by cjbooth85 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/play-it-safe/#comment-91 cjbooth85 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:22:57 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1343#comment-91 wow, that takes my breath away. wow, that takes my breath away.

]]> Comment on How do you Accept Christ ? AW Tozer by blainemonster http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/how-do-you-accept-christ-aw-tozer/#comment-90 blainemonster Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:00:58 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1336#comment-90 This is great. I love reading Tozer, have listened to VERY little. Thanks! This is great. I love reading Tozer, have listened to VERY little. Thanks!

]]> Comment on …To the ocean’s white with foam by TimWitten http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/to-the-oceans-white-with-foam/#comment-89 TimWitten Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:41:47 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1278#comment-89 Hahaha... yes... I've driven through once, coming from Durango CO headed for NJ in the cold of December. Hahaha… yes… I’ve driven through once, coming from Durango CO headed for NJ in the cold of December.

]]> Comment on …To the ocean’s white with foam by blainemonster http://timwitten.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/to-the-oceans-white-with-foam/#comment-88 blainemonster Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:24:41 +0000 http://timwitten.wordpress.com/?p=1278#comment-88 And there's always Kansas! :) And there’s always Kansas! :)

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