I highly recommend this book, Dusty Shoes, Rolled-Up Sleeves and other Signs of Life – Back to the Basics of Authentic Christianity by David Jeremiah. I think it is easy to become a stale Chrisitan that we so often hide our light to the world. This book helps to motivate/encourage how we should live and act and reach out to others. If you do not like to read a lot, you are in luck because it is written so that there is a daily reading for forty days. Each reading only amounts to a few pages. When I first read this book it had a huge impact on me and recently I have been struggling with some personal circumstances, knowing that through my struggles I still need to allow my light to shine and show my joy of salvation to the world. This book, once again, is helping me to do just that. So, if you are looking for something to motivate you in your Christian walk then I recommend this book for you.

A couple years ago I found myself in a situation where I was visiting many different churches with my family and while the most important part was finding a church that matched well with our beliefs, part of me hoped to find a church with many single Christian men but it has astounded me as to how few single men actually go to church. Why is this? I want to be clear, we didn’t just go to one or two churches locally, sometimes we drove an hour or more to try a church and typically we went back more than once to the same church to get a true feel for it and it just seemed that each time the single Christian men were not to be found. If any single Christian man does happen to read this and is not attending church I want to encourage you to go. There are single Christian women out there that are looking for a Godly man that is not afraid of his faith. Why is it that only once the men are married will they go to church? I am curious what it is like elsewhere but I feel, at least in the area where I live, that this is a problem and think we need to pray for younger men to have a willing heart to attend church.

I find it disheartening to come across so many Christians that make no effort to have a relationship with God by not reading their bible and rarely praying. That being a Christian is merely a word without any meaning behind it. Choosing to live our lives to satisfy ourselves with no concern as to whether or not we are truly walking with God or caring the least bit about the manner in which we impact other people’s lives.

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