That Love Which Is of God de Ronald L. Tottingham

That Love Which Is of God: The Best Short Stories of Rick Hautala

Ronald L. Tottingham

"I thought the subject had been exhausted until I read this book.""This book will make a difference in any person's life who reads it sincerely.""This book lays a sure foundation in explaining the love of God; then develops the love that is of God.""Dr. Tottingham has made a scholarly and necessary contribution to my library by penning this book.""Anyone will be a better preacher, Christian, husband, father and friend if they will this book."This book does some effective mind-bending when it says: "...as one grows into love, one grows out of love. Love is being blinded to one's faults enough to see the assets as towering over the faults. Love is majoring on the assets and forgetting the faults." Isn't that good? Wish I had said that."Love and lust may be similar in appearance, but they're very different in nature. Lust is getting; love is giving: lust thinks only of its own happiness; love thinks of the happiness of another."

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Dr. Tottingham was born December 23, 1945 and raised on a farm in southern Missouri. In August 1955 he received Jesus Christ as Saviour through repentance and faith in Christ's death, burial and resurrection. At age 17 he enlisted & served in the US Marines 6 years, serving with the 3rd Reconnaissance Btn & C Co/1st Btn/4th Reg. His 25 month overseas service included combat in South Vietnam as a machine gunner. After Vietnam he was extended 6 months and served as a military policeman until reentering the Reserves. After returning home he married Linda Lou Morris on May 27, 1967. They have 3 children (all in the ministry) and 10 grandchildren as of 2010. He surrendered to scriptural baptism and to preach August 3, 1968 and immediately entered school earning his Bachelor, Masters and a PhD in counseling psychology. He has done out-patient counselling for Offutt AFB mental health services. He also holds a ThD from Omega Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea. The focus of his ministry has been founding (April 1974) and pastoring Empire Baptist Temple, Sioux Falls, SD. In January 2007 he stepped down from a 33 year pastoral ministry to be reassigned from President to Chancellor/administrator of Great Plains Baptist Divinity School. Under his pastorate EBT established the divinity school (1977), an academy (1978), penitentiary (1979) and county jail (1986) ministries, life-protection team (1986), singing group, printing ministry, international church planting outreach, and the Doorstep Evangel news paper (1975) which goes world-wide. The Lord greatly used EBT to train preachers and establish churches scattered around the world.