March Giveaway: christianaudio gift certificates!

For this month’s giveaway, we’re teaming up with christianaudio to give away a grand prize of a $50 gift certificate to christianaudio.com, along with two runner-up prizes of $25 gift certificates. This is one giveaway you’ll definitely want to enter! (If you're reading this post Amazon or elsewhere, please don’t post your comment here! Visit Randy's blog to leave your comment and enter.)

christianaudio is a great resource for those who like to listen to books on audio. They offer many of Randy’s titles, along with thousands of other Christian audio books ...

Planned Neglect: Saying No to Good Things So We Can Say Yes to the Best

I've recently been overwhelmed with seemingly endless opportunities to do good things. I've been weighing what to say yes to and what to say no to. Seems like every year of my life I have to say no to more good things. (Young mothers and fathers may relate to this, as those children need a lot of attention, as do your marriages, and there's no end to the things, both bad and good, that could distract you from either or both.)

Just today I backed out of two things I'd said I thought I could do ...

Longing for God and Hearing His Voice, from A.W. Tozer

When I'm asked what writers had the most profound influence on me as a young Christian, I always say there were three, and they continue to influence me today: C. S. Lewis, A. W. Tozer and Francis Schaeffer. In past months I’ve written about the subject of desire and longing in Augustine, Pascal and C. S. Lewis. Today I want to share from Tozer.

Tozer’s The Knowledge of the Holy, a fabulous book on the attributes of God, is my favorite nonfiction book of all time. I’ll talk about it another time.