What Is a Healthy Church Member?

by Thabiti Anyabwile (Thu-BEE-tee On-ya-bwee-LAY-hee)

What Is a Healthy Church Member? is patterned after the book What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever, and is the third book in the IXMark series. It gives us “one proposal for becoming a healthier member of your local church.”

The ten chapters in this little book (and it is little) are based around ten marks of a healthy church member. Each chapter ends with a few questions for deeper thinking on the topic of the chapter, and many chapters also include a short list of books for more reading on the topic. It’s all biblically grounded, theologically sound, and most of all, practical.

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Gas Up: July 31

Down again, from $1.449 to $1.429. I won’t say “I told you so” about the downward trend. I’ll just say that it feels good to be right yet again.

I’d feel even better if there were a little sunshine to brighten my photo.

Dorothy’s gas price has gone down under $4.00 per gallon.

What about you? What are you paying for gas in your corner of the universe? And is that up or down from last week?

Update on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:11AM by rebecca

threegirldad is doing his best to prove me wrong:

On Wednesday, it went from $3.48 to $3.65. With a “loyal shopper” card from a local grocery store, that made it $3.38 before the price spike.

That still makes gas in his area of Kansas cost less than it does for most of the rest of us. But it is up, and it goes agains my downward trend prediction.

My Desktop Photo 18: Cloud Shadows

Photo by Andrew Stark
(click here for larger view)

Because I’m sick of the rain and need to see a little sun.