Religious ritual is directly opposed to a living encounter with the indwelling Christ. Either one or the other must have dominion, and therefore a constant battle rages between the two opposing forces. An encouraging and edifying volume that will help you wage a good warfare. From the back cover: Often quoted by Chuck Swindoll, Charles Stanley, Billy Graham and other great preachers, A.W. Tozer's words are being heard and read by millions today--words like: Never attach yourself to any [person] as a parasite. Adopt no man as a guru. Apart from the inspired writers of Holy Scriptures no man is worthy of such confidence. The sweetest saint can be mistaken. --Chapter 6, Let No One Become Necessary to You Sin is a poisonous weed that throws the whole nature out of order. The inner life disintegrates; the flesh lusts after forbidden pleasures; the moral judgment is distorted so that often good appears evil and evil good; time is chosen over eternity, earth over heaven and death over life. --Chapter 12, Eating the Locoweed I have long believed that a man who spurns the Christian faith outright is more respected before God and the heavenly powers than the man who pretends to religion but refuses to come under its total domination. The first is an overt enemy, the second a false friend. --Chapter 29, The Way of the Cross The chapters of this book were originally published as editorials in Alliance Life magazine. These incisive columns now make provocative reading. "If a sermon can be compared to light, then A.W. Tozer released a laser beam from the pulpit, a beam that penetrated your heart." --Warren Wiersbe "A 20th century prophet" they called him even in his own lifetime. For 31 years he was pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago, where his reputation as a man of God was citywide. Concurrently, he became editor of ALLIANCE LIFE, a responsibility he fulfilled until his death in 1963. His greatest legacy to the Christian world has been more than 40 books, including this one. Table of Contents:

1. The Warfare of the Spirit
2. The Money Question Needs Prayerful Restudy--Part I
3. The Money Question Needs Prayerful Restudy--Part II
4. Are We Evangelicals Social Climbing?
5. Crowning the Court Fool
6. Let No One Become Necessary to You
7. The Art of Doing Good Unobtrusively--Part I
8. The Art of Doing Good Unobtrusively--Part II
9. What Made David Run?
10. Eternal Retribution--A Bible Doctrine
11. A Word to the Wise
12. Eating the Locoweed
13. Perfect Love Casts Out Fear
14. Christmas Reformation Long Overdue
15. Lift You Glad Voices
16. Laboring the Obvious
17. Ability and Responsibility
18. Beware the Romantic Spirit in Religion
19. Joy Will Come in Its Own Time
20. Temperance, the Rare Virtue
21. The Dangers of Overstimulation
22. The Meaning of Christmas
23. A Glance Back and a Look Forward
24. Singing Commentary
25. Our Imperfect View of Truth
26. The Easter Emphasis
27. The Teachings of Christ Are for Christmas
28. The Decline of Good Reading
29. The Way of the Cross
30. Needed: A Reformation with the Church
31. The Perils of Too Much Liberty
32. The Days of Our Years
33. On Going through School without Learning Anything
34. The Deadliest Sins of All
35. Conformity, a Snare in Religion
36. The Popularity of Christ
37. The Lordship of the Man Jesus Is Basic
38. The Menace of the Common Image
39. Satan's Defeat Linked to His Moral Folly
40. The Man and the Machine
41. Leaders and Followers

• Title: The Warfare of the Spirit - paperback
• Item#: B95453
• ISBN: 1-60066-059-2
• Size: 176 pages
• Length: 8.25
• Width: 5.25
• Weight: 0.5
• Copyright: 1993