Finances: A Challenge to Be Different with Your Life and Finances
Dave Ramsey provides a deep, gut check challenge to be different in this world with your life and finances in the video resource, "Normal Sucks. It's Time to be Weird." People tend to make conscious excuses, fall under emotional strain, continue with bad advice, and give up. It's time to be different! Different from the world and different because of God's work in the heart and mind to live for him. We no longer live for the standards of the world, but rather, live for the Creator of this world and according to his command and counsel.
Listen to the video resource in a receptive way to be challenged regardless of age or stage of life. Listen to not defend or defer but to determine a different direction. Listen not with soft ears easily offended but ready for deep life change. And, if you have received and live by godly counsel, then it's time to counsel others in real life!
Inspirational Life Stories: Lecrae and Trip Lee Interview
Justin Taylor from The Gospel Coalition and Crossway interviews Lecrae and Trip Lee about their life stories and how that turned them to use their music talents to explain these great truths. The 49 minute interview contains a wide spectrum of content and categories starting with where both grew up, what kind of churches they grew up in, their personal lives, what they considered Christianity to be compared to now, rap music, and their music content doctrinally and socially.
Inspirational Life Stories Series
God creates inspirational life stories for the world around to taste of his transformative work in people's hearts and lives. Traditionally, these are considered Christian testimonies, and a testimony is one confessing and testifying to the truth of God and their trust in him. We can find God working good in the world and anything good in the world is to be attributed to him and not humanity as God is the beginning and end of all goodness.
Meaning, he provides goodness in order for people to be redirected and end up trusting him as the source of all good, especially the good news of Christ Jesus -- the gospel. God works evil for his good, and the greatest and historical example of that is through the person and work of Jesus -- the epicenter of life, the world, scripture, and our life. Therefore, we are not good -- he is. These life stories have been inspired by and testify of this truth and love that works good in the world for all to hear, see, and taste of God and his goodness.
