To Whom Shall We Go?

I mentioned to HBC students a couple of helpful worksheets on budgeting your money, and managing your time. And I promised I would give a link to each. Here they are: Money (make sure you add a giving/tithe category!) Time As an FYI, the time worksheet called "Assessing my Priorities" is from the booklet called Priorities: Mastering Time Management by James C. Petty

People often say that Christianity is a crutch. Their meaning is that only weak people embrace it, because they need it; they’re not strong enough. This is false. But the reason it’s false is because it simply doesn’t go far enough! Jonathan Leeman says Christianity, true faith, is actually more like a defibrillator ! You know what I’m talking about? Those things that doctors use when a patient’s heart stops beating? They hold them up in the air, wait till it’s charged, and shout, “Clear!” Leeman says this in his great little book Reverberation . His point is that our hearts are far worse off than just needing a crutch. A crutch is for when you sprain your ankle roller-skating in P.E. But a defibrillator is for when your heart is not beating. It needs new life. This is what we need more than anything: new hearts. Jesus said in Mark 7, “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality” and a whole long list of other sins. My pastor, Tim White, p...