- Introduction

INTRODUCTION
THOSE WHO HEARD A. W. TOZER only at the popular, mid¬20th century Bible conferences considered him a topical preacher who dealt mainly with the striking Bible texts.
His congregations in Chicago and Toronto knew better! They treasured his pastoral preaching from Sunday to Sunday, month by month, year after year. His sermons were a thorough-going, depth, charged examination and exploration of the Scriptures as the revealed and inspired Word of God.
While in his long pastorate in Chicago, Dr. Tozer felt that he was “comfortably started” in the consideration of the Gospel of John after he had been preaching from the book for more than two years! In Toronto, too, his congregation soon discovered that their pastor’s insistent and incisive preaching was his own method of potent Bible teaching.
Not long before his death in 1963, Tozer completed a Sunday morning series of 40 sermons from the book of Hebrews. When he began the series, he made it plain to his listeners that the eternal glories of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, would glow forth in every message. He also said he took exception to the remark of a ministerial friend that “most people find the book of Hebrews pretty dull material.”
The 12 chapters of this book, to be followed in due course by a companion volume completing Tozer’s exposition of Hebrews, area record of his findings. Clearly, he was right. The person and glory of Jesus Christ shine forth through every part of this inspired letter to the Hebrews.

Gerald B. Smith