I'm Tired

My wife works nights. Three twelve hour shifts a week--though they are rarely only twelve. Somehow, she manages to remain on top of life even though she commutes two hours even to get to her hospital. I on the other hand, am seldom on top of life. If I do not get a solid eight to nine hours of sleep, I'm toast. I am grumpy, I have a bad attitude, and people don't like to be around me--or maybe I don't like to be around people.

Through my exhaustion God is always teaching me things. I am learning more about my self and God. David Powlison of CCEF has a short publication on exhaustion from NewGrowthPress. In it, he explains how God can leverage your exhaustion for a deeper relationship with Him.

Open publication - Free publishing - More stressed

Or another great resource for sleep, is a talk given by John MacArthur at the T4G conference titled, A Theology of Sleep:

T4G 2010 -- Session 5 -- John MacArthur from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.

Quote for the Day // Prayer

Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests. (Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles, pg. 44)

All of Grace

All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon

What an exceptional book! Spurgeon writes with people in mind... It is brilliant to listen to him plead for people's spiritual wellbeing. That is what makes Spurgeon so genius. He didn't preach for the sake of preaching. He didn't write for the sake of writing. He would preach and write with one goal in mind, the salvation of souls. Spurgeon is a "soul-winner" and this book will win your soul to Christ. It could win your soul to Christ for the first time, or like it did to me, it can win you over to deeper love and devotion to HIM with every page you turn.

Quote for the Day // Prayer

Pastors who imitate the preaching and moral action of the prophets without also imitating the prophets' deep praying and worship so evident in the Psalms are an embarrassment to the faith and an encumbrance to the church (Eugene Peterson, Working the Angles, pg. 40)

Luke 1:26-38 | How To Get God's Favor

December 5, 2010 from Central Wired on Vimeo.

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Feed Your Soul

I am a big fan of this guy:

Bob MacRae: Youth Pastor Lunch from Brandon Early on Vimeo.

HT: Brandon Early