Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.
In Today’s Issue:
- Why You Constantly Change Productivity Apps
- Should Rich Christians Downgrade Their Lifestyle?
- Teaching Your Little Ones to Pray
- It’s Okay to Be a Two-Talent Christian
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Certainty
Dear steward,
The first time I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done, a light switch went off in my brain, “I don’t have to let commitments slip through the cracks anymore! I just need a trusted system for tracking everything!”
I purchased a fancy to-do list app (at the time, it was OmniFocus) and began capturing every stray task or project I thought I might need to do someday.
It was glorious!
At first.
Initially, I experienced a surge of relief, knowing everything I needed to do was being saved somewhere, and I no longer had to rely on my memory. But I soon became overwhelmed by the number of tasks I’d saved to do later. The arbitrary due dates I’d set for them would come and go. And before I knew it, I had dozens of overdue items of varying degrees of importance, all screaming at me every time I opened my app.
The system that was supposed to cure my overwhelm became my chief source of anxiety. So, I did what any reasonable person would do. I scrapped that system and tried a new one. Then the cycle would repeat, so I’d start over again with something else—again, and again, and again.
I was on the never-ending quest for the perfect productivity system…
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THE ROUNDUP
The best links I found this week
Should Rich Christians Downgrade Their Lifestyle? (10 mins)
Robert Plummer / Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
This is a good answer from Dr. Plummer.
I also really loved his analogy of asking if we could go back in time and how much Apple or Amazon stock we would buy, knowing it would be such a great investment. But we’ve been given an eternal stock-tip of sorts in the Scriptures. We’ve been told that there is heavenly reward for faithfulness to the Lord, yet too often, we don’t live or give like it.
Teaching Your Little Ones to Pray (4 mins)
Tracy Lane / Ever Thine Home
This article is a wonderful encouragement and provides some practical instructions on how to teach even young children to pray.
- Model a prayer life.
- Invite your child to pray a piece.
- Ask your child to take a turn at praying.
- Encourage your child to pray regularly.
It’s Okay To Be a Two-Talent Christian (6 mins)
A comforting reminder.
I am quite certain that heaven does not cheer louder for the five-talent servant who earns another five than it does for the two-talent servant who earns another two. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the greatest cheers rise for the one-talent servant who is simply and joyfully faithful.
WHAT’S NEW
On Redeeming Productivity
The Perfect Productivity App Doesn’t Exist (7 mins)
Many of us are on a quixotic search for the perfect to-do list app. Here’s why you’ll never find it and what to do instead.
A DOSE OF WISDOM
Quote of the Week
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
