Christian Priorities

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	• Living With Less: The Upside of Downsizing Your Life Mark Tabb B&H Publishing Group, 2006 - 185 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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Dumbstruck

I am really dumbstruck by the poor reviews about this book. I read this book about 2 years ago and it was one of the best and most life-changing books I've ever read. I totally disagree with the review that said it was light on application. The author weaves application throughout the entire book and even gives a thorough top ten list of ways to financially/materially simplify. He also gives ideas for simplifying the way we spend time. I thought he does a remarkable job of balancing the two major aspects of the book- those being: 1. why we should simplify and 2.how to go about it. The tone of the book is great, it's easy to read. I never write in books, but I found myself underlining line after line in this book. I found many of his thoughts to be profound and could study them and chew them over in my mind for days or weeks! I loved the book so much that I offered to teach a class on simplicity at church. I presented many of the ideas from this book and recommended that everyone pick up a copy to read.

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Christian Priorities

You need to know that this is a book about Christianity, which I did not realize when I bought it. No problem, as I am a Christian, but I was surprised by the content once I started reading. It was a good thing. I was looking for advice on reining in our materialistic lives, and I found it here. He does not make the reader feel bad if they are not dirt poor, but makes very lucid suggestions for how to live your life with or without financial means. This is a great follow-up to Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life (still the best Christian life guide I have ever read).

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Mark Tabb won't ignore the facts about the hectic pace of modern life that we are, ironically, often too tired to acknowledge and change. In his candid and spiritually insightful Living with Less, he declares, "The only way to get more out of life is to choose less. Less stuff. Less activity. Less wanting more. . . . May God give us the courage to choose less stress in order that we might experience more of the life he has planned for us."