Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex, and Power

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Author: Richard J. Foster

ISBN-10: 0060628286

ISBN-13: 9780060628284

Category: Economics - Religious & Moral Aspects

The Challenge of the Disciplined Life explores the three great ethical themes crucial to people of faith living faithfully. Drawing upon practical examples, Richard J. Foster guides the reader in day-to-day ethical decision making while helping each of us determine "the proper place in Christian life of money, sex, and power."\ \ \ "Foster leads the reader to a contemporary response influenced by a Christian world view and yet still appropriate for modern...

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The Challenge of the Disciplined Life explores the three great ethical themes crucial to people of faith living faithfully. Drawing upon practical examples, Richard J. Foster guides the reader in day-to-day ethical decision making while helping each of us determine "the proper place in Christian life of money, sex, and power." Eternity Book of the Year.

Chapter One\ \ Money, Sex and Power inChristian Perspective\ It is vanity to seek riches that shall perish and to put one's hope in them. It is vanity also to aspire to honours and to climb to high degree. It is vanity to follow the lust of the flesh.\ --THOMAS à KEMPIS

\ Christian BooksellerFoster leads the reader to a contemporary response influenced by a Christian world view and yet still appropriate for modern society.\ \ \ \ \ Christian CenturyThe author's words on how giving can bring authenticity and vitality to a devotional experience are important to hear in this day in which once again there is increased emphasis on spiritul formation and devotional exercises.\ \ \ Earthly spirituality . . . full of common sense and good advice.\ \ \ \ \ Book of the Year.\ \ \ \ \ Richard J. Foster gives you a front row seat in the three arenas where Christians still fight the lions . . . . Wrestling with the issues of money, sex, and power, [he] forges a truly Christian response.\ \