Now is Not the Time to Be Negligent

As a young man, Rick Warner, now Chief of Staff for the ALERT Cadet program, was impressed by God to “tithe on his time.” For him, tithing on his time meant taking short-term mission trips to minister the Gospel in other lands.

Taking eternity into account changes things. Naturally it can be easy to forget about eternity, focusing instead on our own life and the time we assume is ours. "Numbering our days" enables us to stand back and glimpse the "mosaic" God has been creating from the beginning of time.

How do you leave a good job where you have invested ten or more years? How do you follow God’s call, not knowing what lies ahead? Tom Harmon shares how, after hearing God call him to preach, he slowly and carefully took steps in his obedience to that call.

In the beginning God infused the beautiful and self-sustaining principle of authority at every level of his creation. And since that time Satan has found many ways to turn the triangle upside down, to cloud the distinctions of the Creator, to create not order but chaos.