Recommended Reading

Here's a book to read during all this extra time over Christmas break! I finally finished it, and I assure you, it will not be a waste of time. Even if you are not a reader, GO GET THIS BOOK! It is full of Scripture and so challenging and practical. 


A little taste: "The question, therefore, is not “can we find God’s will?” The question is “Will we obey God’s will?” Will we refuse to sit back and wait for some tingly feeling to go down our spines before we rise up and do what we have already been commanded to do? Will we risk everything - our comfort, our possessions, our very lives - to make the gospel known among unreached peoples? Such rising up and such risk taking are the unavoidable, urgent results of a life that is radically abandoned to Jesus."

Matthew 19:21

Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Matthew 19:21
This is Caroline and I's hallway before we loaded our cars to go home for Christmas. And let me say, the picture doesn't even do justice the amount of stuff we have! Ah! So we joked that we are just going to give everything away so we don't have to ever carry it again. It might not actually be such a bad idea.

FINALS

It's 2:45 AM and I have been in the library since 4:00 So I figured this was appropriate