{"id":273,"date":"2016-01-31T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T02:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/?p=273"},"modified":"2016-02-14T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:13:29","slug":"books-on-christian-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/2016\/01\/31\/books-on-christian-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Christian Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A colleague&#8217;s recommended favorite book on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">giving from a Christian perspective<\/span> is by Andy Stanley: <i>Fields of Gold<\/i> (Tyndale, 2006).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Simple living from a Christian perspective<\/span>, written by people who live it out: <i>Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matter Most<\/i>, by Mark Scandrette (IVP, 2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A good (but difficult) read on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">the theology of stewardship<\/span> is by R. Scott Rodin, <i>Stewards in the Kingdom: A Theology of Life in All Its Fullness<\/i> (IVP Academic, 2000).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A great book on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">connecting our work with God&#8217;s work<\/span> is by Timothy Keller, <i>Every Good Endeavor<\/i> (Dutton, 2012).<\/li>\n<li>A related helpful website is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theologyofwork.org.\" target=\"_blank\"> www.theologyofwork.org.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Investing advice, especially regarding retirement investing<\/span>: by James O\u2019Donnell, <i>The Shortest Book Ever on Saving for Retirement<\/i> (Northfield Publishing, 2010).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">getting out of debt is your main concern<\/span>, that&#8217;s Dave Ramsey&#8217;s specialty. Check out his book <i>The Total Money Makeover<\/i>, or look at resources (like the Seven Baby Steps) at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveramsey.com.\" target=\"_blank\"> www.daveramsey.com.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A colleague&#8217;s recommended favorite book on giving from a Christian perspective is by Andy Stanley: Fields of Gold (Tyndale, 2006). Simple living from a Christian perspective, written by people who live it out: Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matter Most, by Mark Scandrette (IVP, 2013) A good (but difficult) read on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[854,2967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}