Consider: “Habits of Grace”

Habits of Grace by David Mathis is a book that deals with spiritual disciplines in a summary form. Here is a brief excerpt describing the author’s hope for the readers:

My hope in reshifting the focus from the spiritual disciplines to the means of grace — and then the various personal habits of grace that we develop in light of them — is to keep the gospel and the energy of God at the center… My prayer is that this approach will help to make the means of grace, and your own habits that develop around them, not just accessible and realistic but truly God’s means of your knowing and enjoying Jesus.

An excellent chapter on time management included this concept:

One way to make it practical is to schedule the time both for proactive good in the calling God has given us and reactive good that responds to the urgent needs of others.

The Epilogue alone — “Communing with Christ on a Crazy Day” — may be worth the price of the book for many of us!

 

 

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Consider: “Do More Better”

Tim Challies has produced Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity in 119 pages of valuable principles and practical helps. Here are some brief snippets from this resource:

Productivity is not what will bring purpose to your life, but what will enable you to excel in living out your existing purpose.

Productivity is effectively stewarding my gifts, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God.

A productivity system is a set of methods, habits, and routines that enable you to be most effective in knowing what to do and in actually doing it. … To be productive, you need a system.

And the book details systems — and tools — that can help.

In addition, Ligonier Connect has an online course available on this book, for more structured study individually or as a group.

 

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