{"id":315,"date":"2016-02-03T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T05:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/?p=315"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:24:19","slug":"books-on-christian-lifestyle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/2016\/02\/03\/books-on-christian-lifestyle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Christian Financial Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Book on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">giving from a Christian perspective<\/span> is by Andy Stanley.\u00a0<i>Fields of Gold<\/i> (Tyndale, 2006).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Book on simple living from a Christian perspective<\/span>, and is written by people who live it out.\u00a0<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.\u00a0<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.\u00a0<i>Every Good Endeavor<\/i> (Dutton, 2012).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\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,\u00a0<\/span>is a book by James O\u2019Donnell.\u00a0<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,\u00a0<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>Book on giving from a Christian perspective is by Andy Stanley.\u00a0Fields of Gold (Tyndale, 2006). Book on simple living from a Christian perspective, and is written by people who live it out.\u00a0Free: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matter Most, by Mark Scandrette (IVP, 2013). A good (but difficult) read on the theology of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/family-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}