This is gonna be really good. Love me some Tozer, but I'll be interested to see your take on him.

“The Knowledge of the Holy” has been an awesome read for me. I’m still studying it but what I’ve learned has truly caused me to look at my stance on many theological thoughts. I won’t argue with anyone about their opinion but those that question Tozers writings has had them speak to them like it has me. The way he explains scripture and certain aspects really change the way I look at things. They are not what I would call easy reads. They are deep but if you take your time and comprehend what he says I believe it’s hugely beneficial. I would highly recommend Tozer and his writings.

I’m really loving your channel, my dude. Been following your YT channel for a while now. You have a great camera presence! Thank you! God bless your ministry for the Lord! Yeshua shalom, ~ G.🕊️

The thing about Tozer that impresses me is his deep spirituality. He was a man of keen insight.

Disciple Dojo using Zazzle for their clothing merch is great! T-shirt quality is good and like JM said, very customizable! Get one and start those biblical conversations :)

Thank you,JM. I have this on OliveTree, but haven't yet explored it. TY for your insights. Blessings on the viewer who sent it to you.🌹⭐🌹

This is cool. One of tozers family came to our church and did a revival, he is an evangelist. Sharp guy, he only mentioned it in passing, I didn’t even know they where related for years.

The imitation leather edition of this bible is $100 on Amazon. That is a no-go for me. I own the C.S. Lewis NRSV which is very similar, but half the cost.

Lewis and Tozer are my all time favorite authors. If I would reccomend one book by him outside of his "Knowledge of the Holy" and "The Pursuit of God" it would have to be "The Radical Cross". Extremely convicting

Thank you for a great review.

Im not reformed in the traditional since, more like N. T. Wright reformed, but Matthew Everhart and a team are working on a Jonathan edwards study bible. That will be awesome to look into i think.

@midnightdoxology

4 ай бұрын

Yes 100%, JM should reach out to Matthew to see if he can get an advance copy… we can flood his DMs for @discipledojo

You're awesome! I found you on Spotify and brought me here to your channel. So happy I found your content! ❤

@DiscipleDojo

4 ай бұрын

Glad you found us!

Thank you for your review, I have the A.W. Tozer, "Pursuit of God" Bible in the NIV translation. It seems to have the same comments and reflections as you read from the KJV that you have. It is also published by Hendrickson Bibles.

Both of them being humble men, Tozer and Lewis would probably have been uncomfortable with Bibles named after them.

JMS has many leather-bound books! :D

@DiscipleDojo

4 ай бұрын

I'm...kind of a big deal. 😅

I have mine in NIV, its called the Pursuit of God Bible

Congrats on your designation as #1 Christian u-tuber by Tim Nickels, BTW. ❤❤❤❤

There is a Pursuit of God Bible in the NIV. I believe it is the same content.

Another awesome review!! Thank you 😊

Sounds like a interesting Bible

Super. Can you reccommend some other free resources on Tozer? Thanks.

@DiscipleDojo

4 ай бұрын

No. I don't know of any.

Hey I just find your channel when I searching study bible reviews, because I have NKJV study and MacArthur study (also NKJV 😂) I have KJV also, but online a few weeks ago I start read more CJB bible so I ordered The Complete Jewish Study Bible, and when I start reading I was think that was a mistake, but not. Long months I discuss some guys with the Sabbath questions, Im a Sabbath keeper they not, and they always say in the NT Act 20;7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together! so that is the point when the Bible say sunday is a worship day, but when I checked the Blue Letter Bible app the original Greek text they used the word sabbatov, just I cant figure out, But in the CJB study finnaly I find the write answer: Acts 20;7 On Motza’ei-Shabbat, when we were gathered to break bread, Sha’ul addressed them. Since he was going to leave the next day, he kept talking until midnight. And I searched what is a Motza'ei-Shabbat which is: Havdalah (Hebrew: הַבְדָּלָה, romanized: haḇdālā, lit. 'separation', Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אבדלתא, romanized: aḇdālā) is a Jewish religious ceremony that marks the symbolic end of Shabbat and ushers in the new week. So for me was a big step forward to do study more deep. After this I always will be study bible many perspective. I like your channel. THX.

First review

"It's like the C.S. Lewis Bible, like this guy, like the bible." Except for the differences in translations, which I am beginning to think are very important, the Bible is still made up of the same words. Well, mostly anyway. I try to keep an open mind on what it means and this Bible would not help me I don't think. I like that you skip the physical stuff, except where it gets in the way of actually reading the bible, that stuff should not be in a bible review. Except for liking single column and larger font and hardcover bibles, I don't care about the aesthetics. Good review as always JM, you are the best.

A. W. Tozer and his theology was the topic of my doctorate degree dissertation. While he could turn a phrase as was noted for his quippy "Tozerisms", his real passion was for the old Christian Mystics from the 4th Century Gregory of Nyssa through the 18th Century Jean Grou. He particularly loved Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, Madam Guyon and Francois Fenelon. He openly professed and promoted Christian Mysticism in his sermons and writings. He personally wrote just 5 books; two biographies of Christian & Missionary Alliance heroes, three theological "stream of conscious" discourses and he also compiled one book of Christian Mystical writings. The rest of the 40 books or more attributed to him are compilations and excerpts from his writings prepared by others. I don't recommend any of them to you.

@MountainFisher

4 ай бұрын

Oh, you noticed that too. I read a lot of his writings and I started coming away with a feeling of I'm not much of a Christian because I wasn't mystical or sin free as I knew thoughts could be sinful too even if I repressed them. Spent too much time feeling totally inadequate from his judgements. Tozer was judgemental and I started wondering if he knew what real Grace was. Then as I grew in grace and knowledge I stopped reading him. I don't recommend him to anyone with a sensitive conscience or who isn't well grounded in the Gospel. Tozer struck me like the writings of John Wesley struck B. B. Warfield who wrote he was fairly convinced that Wesley believed in a different God than the God of the Bible. Severe? Yes, but "if we say we have no sin the truth is not in us." I remember thinking when I left the Church of the Nazarene that it must feel good to walk upright in sinless perfection*, but I cannot nor will I even try to fool myself into thinking I can. *Total sanctification teaching.

A.W. Tozer was a Church Pastor. He was great pastor because he never went to seminary. Tozer was self-educated. He was a big part of the group known as "Christian Missionary Alliance." He wrote many books and articles. Several of his sermons have been collected, printed and turned into books. Sadly, he had a heart attack at age 66 and died. Comparing Tozer with a scripture denying sci-fi writer / fantasy writer is deplorable. As to why the "Epistle Dedicatory" from the Translation teams is in the front of Authorized Version Bibles is simple: It was King James VI of Scotland / King James I of England that assumed the throne of both countries after Good Queen Bess died (Queen Elizabeth I) and he wanted to have a Holy Bible that could be used in ALL the churches in the Realm. Your disdain for Monarchy and reverence and respect is disgusting. Monarchy is the only God-ordained form of Government. The monarch is the representative / servant of God The Creator. King James conferred with the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Church officers and decided to commission 3 teams of "Learned Men" (iirc, from staff at Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster) to produce a new translation in 1604 A.D. They did. In 1611 after each Team sent to and examined the work of the others, they presented the finished work to the King of the Realm who was also the Head of the Church of England. They wrote the way they did because they had class and good upbringing. The Monarch of the Realm was respected. They were not unemployed D-average High School surfer boys living off their mommy with bad vocabularies. The "Learned Men" also wrote a good introduction rarely seen in any A.V. Bibles published nowadays. It was the: "Translators to the Reader". It explains the task they were given by the King, and how they did it. The New Testament is largely the work of William Tyndale ((murdered in Belgium by R.C. henchmen)) and the O.T. was a bit of the Coverdale Bible, The Great Bible, and the Geneva Bible was looked at also, (iirc), a few modifications after much checking with the Hebrew texts.

@MAMoreno

4 ай бұрын

So wait: you have a problem with Disciple Dojo for being an American (which naturally implies being anti-monarchy), but you also praise a low-church American like A.W. Tozer over C.S. Lewis, an Anglican. Your viewpoints are contradictory.

@gusloader123

4 ай бұрын

@@MAMoreno A.W. Tozer was a deeply reverent man and a very God-honoring Christian pastor/Preacher/writer. The waste of paper & ink named C.S. Lewis was a heretic on several issues. He was non-practicing Anglican. {(Note: "The 39 Articles of Religion" in the Anglican "Book of Common Prayer" are Reformed/Calvinistic. Lewis was a Roman Catholic (I read that he converted to Popery & May worship on his deathbed.) It fogs my mind how anyone that is a Born-again, Bible-believing, blood-bought Christian can read C.S. Lewis books and not want to vomit or put them in the fireplace. He was a fantasy / Sc-fi / witchcraft writer. That hideous witchy woman who wrote the popular sorcery books about a boy's school in the U.K. said that she liked C.S. Lewis writings. I found some websites for you to look at with many details about the heretic C.S. Lewis. He was biblically illiterate, but people buy his trash. He denied basic and important doctrines of protestant Christianity. That always happens when somebody thinks the God-breathed Holy Bible has mistakes in it. (Note: I am posting website links simply because they have done the "homework" on C.S. Lewis. I am not a donor/partner or employee of these webpages.) jesustruthdeliverance.com/2016/11/23/c-s-lewis-beliefs/ www.jesus- is-savior.com/Wolves/cs_lewis-exposed.htm safeguardyoursoul.com/c-s-lewis-exposed/

Anything by Tozer is usually very good...even though I don't agree with him 100% which us true of all people. Never buy a study bible done by one person (no matter how good he/she is) or by one denomination even it's your own! The Baker Illustrated Bible is my favourite from my many study bibles that I own. I too do not prefer the KJV. I agree with Dojo

Be careful of wording when talking about your preferences of Bible translations. Saying you "don't care for" for the King James Bible is a bit of a loose way to talk about the Word of God, not too dissimilar to how KJV-only nutjobs deride other translations of scripture (although they, admittedly, are far worse). It might not be the version that speaks to you the best, but to say you "don't care for it" is disrespectful of God's Word.

@DiscipleDojo

4 ай бұрын

I disagree. It is no different than saying I don't care for the CEV, TLB, NRSVue, or any other number of translations. The sooner we detach "Word of God" status from any particular *translation* of the Word of God, the better, in my opinion.

@user-kc7xk6wy2z

4 ай бұрын

Considering the souls that have been saved and the lives that have been completely transformed through the teaching of the Gospel through the many translations of the Word of God, I find your sentiment quite unusual, perhaps even unsettling. While the scriptures were originally written in Hebrew, Greek and a little Aramaic, the original autographs don't carry more weight than any faithfully produced translations. While translations obviously aren't exact duplications of what was originally written, due to the intricacies of copying something from one language to another, God speaks as powerfully through any one translation as through the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. The original autographs, the KJV, the ESV, the CEV, etc - they're ALL the Word of God. I know some people take pride in learning Hebrew and Greek and studying the Bible in its original language, but that won't bring you any nearer to God than reading a translation into your own mother tongue. To think otherwise (not to put words into your mouth) would suggest intellectual snobbery.

@Yesica1993

4 ай бұрын

Oh, for goodness' sake! There is nothing wrong with saying you don't care for a translation. That's probably the nicest way of saying it. That has NOTHING to do with "a loose way to talk about the Word of God", much less being disrespectful of it. Good grief, people say the most ridiculous things.