Something for your wish list

The questions are coming…”What can I get you for Christmas?” If you’re interested in missions, why not check out a book by a missionary about missions? Add it to your wish list on Amazon. It’s also available on Kindle if you prefer the digital format.

All That You Can’t Leave Behind

Taking the “foreign” out of foreign mission

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All That You Can’t Leave Behind

Dallas Willard

The interpretation of grace as having only to do with guilt is utterly false to biblical teaching and renders spiritual life in Christ unintelligible.

Dallas Willard

Did you know there is a book called “Does this cluttter make my butt llok fat?”?

I saw it on Oprah. Oh yea, Oprah is huge in Africa (no pun intended). Interesting show on Peter Walsh and the spiritual ramifications of possessions on our souls.

My favorite quote was “Eating more and buying more is an attempt to fill the need for SOMETHING more.”

Unbreakable

M. Night Shymalan’s character, Elijah Price or “Mr. Glass,” from the movie Unbreakable says this at the end of the movie.

“Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you’re here.  That’s…that’s an awful feeling.”

I’m working on a new book about finding our purpose and how charity is one of the main keys in that search, so it was odd to be watching this movie yesterday and hear these words.

Success

Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

Every afternoon…

…when I’m home with my boys while my wife teaches, I try to remember this quote.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.

Umberto Eco

Simplify, simplify, simplify

As I begin work on my next book, tentatively sub-titled “The Revolutionary Way YOU Can End Third World Poverty”, I meditate on the words of Henry David Thoreau–Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!