Rewards of Simplicity ... Pam and Chuck Pierce

Featured in April's Connection Magazine. Chuck and Pam Pierce have written "The Rewards of Simplicity."

You might say - well, I don't need to read that, my life is VERY simple. It's not THAT simple!

Read on -- the real definition of simple is very different from that which WE know about simplicity. Learn how the Pierce's overcame great adversity by applying that simplicity. Learn steps to simplify your life by decluttering - in a Biblical sense.

If transparency is a common thread to learning about a person's blessed and simple life, then Chuck and Pam Pierce have woven us a beautiful web to catch us up in their lives. We see by the way they lived; the way they simplified their lives; by their sheer obedience to our Lord, how they were blessed.

Get your copy today at the Connection Bookstore.

The Blessed Life by Robert Morris

Do you want to live a blessed life? Would it surprise you to know that you are already living it? Want to know more?

"The Blessed Life" is about living life in abundance. Morris says, "Tithing is not giving, it's returning." Now that excited me. Morris writes alot about being blessed by being a blessing. Paying it forward, if you will.

Morris is the senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and this latest work of his will change your life for the better - by showing you how to be financially free because you have 'the heart of God." In Chapter 10, "Need, Greed or Seed," he says, "we must pass the test of need, trusting God to take care of u--we must pass the test of greed, using abundance wisely and in obedience to God's promptings. Moreover, we must pass the test of seed--sowing bountifully, as we observe the three principles of seedtime and harvest.

God can get it to us if He can only get it through us!"

Pick up a copy today - and read about God's Road Map to a Blessed Life!

Happy Reading...until next time.

Kathy

Center of the Universe, A Look at Life From the Lighter Side, by Bill Johnson

..."a Look at Life From the Lighter Side...."

I was only 5 pages into Bill Johnson’s, “Center of the Universe,” when I thought – this is going to be fun reading: I’m already laughing and I’m only in the second short chapter! I realized, too, that I am NOT the center of the universe, God is… but we are the center of His universe…and we know He is in control. When we try and get things done, jobs accomplished, people changed, it gets really, really screwed up.

Johnson started writing even though he felt unequipped, untalented and not even called. But after ‘encouragement’ from others, he began his writing journey. Don’t we all need encouragement to accomplish anything? The desire to write had been planted in his early life so, of course, if God planted it there, He will equip you and get you encouraged by bringing words from others – and ultimately, naturally and supernaturally, do what God tells you to do.

Short chapters of life…that’s what this book is about! I love it! I can pick it up, set it down and pick it up again and get such wisdom. I particularly like reading it in the lavatory – uh, okay, the bathroom!

When the third microwave dies, all new high-end speakers are defective, the washer and dryer take a hike, the prized hunting dog completely destroys the house, and his first try at mustard greens, Johnson just talks about how he gets through it all and applies scripture to his entire existence.

Through sheer anecdotal evidence, we learn about Pastor Johnson’s parishioners, his kids and grandkids, his relationship to his wife and God. It’s a pleasure.

I didn't read a snippet from this book - you'll just have to go there yourself!! -- Happy Reading!

Respectable Sins, by Jerry Bridges

Bridges begins by discussing the disappearance of sin, defines us as saints; what sin is, the warring of our soul and our flesh and the fact that, in his opinion, Evangelical Christians are the worst at ‘accepting’ or confronting the respectable sins we tolerate. He goes on to explain and verify by quoting scriptures that sin is sin is sin, despised by God – even cursed by God.

He does tell us early in the work that we should ‘take heart and to remember that Christ has already paid the penalty for our sins and won for us the forgiveness of them’. I couldn’t wait to get to those delicious paragraphs, as the condemnation was beginning to heap up – his point exactly. He says that sin has disappeared from society, because of the ‘feel good’ generation.

Bridges goes into great detail on the different types of respectable sins, but makes a point of telling us that there are many more he didn’t even put in this book. Sin, as this author discusses, is a malignancy and states that is why cancer is called a malignancy and it can metastasize and very possibly kill everything around it…. as do these respectable sins.

He dialogues about sin as ungodly, proves it scripturally, then describes in detail the following respectable sins: anxiety and frustration, discontentment, unthankfulness, pride, selfishness, lack of self control, impatience and irritability, anger, weeds of anger, judgmentalism, sins of the tongue and worldliness. Bridges announces it is ‘our responsibility to put to death the acceptable sins in our lives’.

Bridges’ writing style is easy to follow and uses descriptive, specific examples. This nonfiction is a quick read.

Bridges is detailed about where we go from here and it is a journey!

Happy reading!