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The Attributes of God, Volume 2: Study Guide is unavailable, but you can change that!

“It is utterly necessary that we know this God, this One that John wrote about, this One that the poet speaks about, this One that theology talks about and this One that we’re sent to preach and teach about,” Tozer writes in the introduction to his second volume on God’s attributes. Again, the chapters included here were preached as sermons, this time to the Avenue Road congregation in Toronto,...

get more than we ask, Tozer says: “He gives, but in giving He gives us Himself too. And the best gift God ever gives us is Himself” (p. 24). This is reminiscent of the discovery that A. B. Simpson found later in his ministry—a discovery he put into verse: Once it was the blessing, Now it is the Lord; Once it was the feeling, Now it is His Word. Once His gift I wanted, Now the Giver own; Once I sought for healing, Now Himself alone. Tozer touches on this same idea in The Root of the Righteous, where
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