Issue #161

Your weekly roundup of insights and resources to help you get more done for the glory of God.

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In Today’s Issue:

• Why You Constantly Change Productivity Apps
• Should Rich Christians Downgrade Their Lifestyle?
• Teaching Your Little Ones to Pray
• It’s Okay to Be a Two-Talent Christian
• Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Certainty

Dear steward,

The first time I read David Allen’s Getting Things Done, a light switch went off in my brain, “I don’t have to let commitments slip through the cracks anymore! I just need a trusted system for tracking everything!”

I purchased a fancy to-do list app (at the time, it was OmniFocus) and began capturing every stray task or project I thought I might need to do someday.

It was glorious!

At first.

Initially, I experienced a surge of relief, knowing everything I needed to do was being saved somewhere, and I no longer had to rely on my memory. But I soon became overwhelmed by the number of tasks I’d saved to do later. The arbitrary due dates I’d set for them would come and go. And before I knew it, I had dozens of overdue items of varying degrees of importance, all screaming at me every time I opened my app.

The system that was supposed to cure my overwhelm became my chief source of anxiety. So, I did what any reasonable person would do. I scrapped that system and tried a new one. Then the cycle would repeat, so I’d start over again with something else—again, and again, and again.

I was on the never ending quest for the perfect productivity system...

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​Should Rich Christians Downgrade Their Lifestyle? (10 mins)

Robert Plummer / Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

This is a good answer from Dr. Plummer.

I also really loved his analogy of asking if we could go back in time and how much Apple or Amazon stock we would buy, knowing it would be such a great investment. But we’ve been given an eternal stock-tip of sorts in the Scriptures. We’ve been told that there is heavenly reward for faithfulness to the Lord, yet too often, we don’t live or give like it.

​Teaching Your Little Ones to Pray (4 mins)

Tracy Lane / Ever Thine Home

This article is a wonderful encouragement and provides some practical instructions on how to teach even young children to pray.

1. Model a prayer life.
2. Invite your child to pray a piece.
3. Ask your child to take a turn at praying.
4. Encourage your child to pray regularly.

​It’s Okay To Be a Two-Talent Christian (6 mins)

Tim Challies

A comforting reminder.

​The Perfect Productivity App Doesn’t Exist (7 mins)

Many of us are on a quixotic search for the perfect to-do list app. Here's why you'll never find it and what to do instead.

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That's all for this week.

For His glory,

Reagan Rose

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Reagan Rose

I talk about personal productivity from a Christian perspective. Creator of ​Redeeming Productivity​.

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