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Tim Challies is an author, Pastor, blogger, and book reviewer at challies.com. I found him one day on YouTube while looking at book reviews. I love being subscribed to his newsletter, which includes what he calls A La Carte, which is a recap of Christian articles he likes and Kindle deals for Christians on Amazon. The articles are heavy leaning towards his denomination, but every now and again, you will find some great ones for all Christians.

He has written the following books:

The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

Sexual Detox: A Guide For Guys Who Are Sick of Porn

The Next Story: Life and Faith After the Digital Explosion

Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity

Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth About God

The Character of the Christian

Devoted

Run to Win: The Lifelong Pursuits of a Godly Man

Social Media

Favorite Quotes From Do More Better

Productivity—true productivity—will never be better or stronger than the foundation you build it upon.

There is no task in life that cannot be done for God’s glory.

You need to structure and organize your life so that you can do the maximum good for others and thus bring the maximum glory to God.

You need to be a Christian—a person who has believed in Jesus Christ and received forgiveness for your sins, a person who has given up living for yourself and begun living for the glory of God.

God calls you to productivity, but he calls you to the right kind of productivity. He calls you to be productive for his sake, not your own.

You have limited amounts of gifting, talents, time, energy, and enthusiasm, but unlimited ways of allocating them.

Your primary pursuit in productivity is not doing more things, but doing more good.

My ability to make wise decisions is directly connected to my understanding of my mission. When I am confident in my mission, I am confident in my decisions.

Motivation gives the desire and energy to begin making changes in your life, but it cannot sustain them.

…motivation gets you started, but habit keeps you going. You need to use those times of high motivation to build habits and to embed those habits in a system.

The person who lives with an awareness of God’s presence, who lives under God’s authority, and who longs to bring God glory is the person who will be highly motivated to do more good—to do the most good for other people.

Challies, Tim. Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity. Challies. Kindle Edition.

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Francis Chan is former Pastor of Cornerstone Church in California, speaker, and author of the following books:

Crazy Love

Forgotten God

Letters To The Church

You and Me Forever

Multiply

Erasing Hell

The Francis Chan Collection

Websites and Social Media

Crazy Love has what looks to be Francis Chan’s sermons from 2018 and older. There is also a page for his podcast on Soundcloud and you can find his events although it doesn’t look like there are any future events scheduled. You can also purchase his books here.

We Are Church has details on the new format of church that Francis Chan is teaching in the California area. There is also a great resource on Bible reading that their church uses.

Favorite Quotes From Crazy Love

It’s up to you to respond to what you read. But you will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

The fact is, I need God to help me love God.

It is a remarkable cycle: Our prayers for more love result in love, which naturally causes us to pray more, which results in more love….

If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

From Forgotten God

When believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural.

Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.

There will always be more of His character to discover, more of His love to experience, and more of His power to use for His purposes.

The problem is much of what we believe is often based more on comfort or our culture’s tradition than on the Bible.

God calls us to pursue Him, not what He might do for us or even in our midst.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

God cares more about our response to His Spirit’s leading today, in this moment, than about what we intend to do next year.

This business of sanctification is a lifelong process we are engaged in.

If GOD truly lives in you, shouldn’t you expect to be different from everyone else?

It saddened me to think that a gang could paint a better picture of commitment, loyalty, and family than the local church body.

From Erasing Hell

Test all your assumptions against the precious words God gave us in the Bible.

Let’s be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it.

How will Jesus respond to your laundry list of Christian activities—your Easter services, tithe, Bible studies, church potlucks, and summer-camp conversions?

God is good not only when He makes sense to us, but even when He doesn’t.

Chan, Francis. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God. Cook. Kindle Edition.

Chan, Francis. Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit. Cook. Kindle Edition.

Chan, Francis. Erasing Hell: What God Said About Eternity, and the Things We’ve Made Up. Cook. Kindle Edition.

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