dig in
Determined to grow a vegetable garden, I dragged my shovel to a sunny patch of land and pitched it into the soil. The ground was as hard as cement, but I kept digging. Eventually, a hunk of sod came loose. I wiped my forehead with the back of my hand. It was rewarding to finally “dig in”—to get beyond the…
pure work
I was 16 when I first discovered The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. I re-read it recently and my soul was refreshed in a new way. Oh, how I wish I could write like Tozer, with such depth of insight and deft use of words!
Tozer entered the ministry without high school or college education. He trained himself over…