Recommended for your edification

I wanted to post this earlier in the month but just haven't gotten around to it until now.

Our pastor started off the new year with a very interesting Sermon Series on the book of Numbers. January 7th was an overview of the book, with the main theme being that God speaks to us in the wilderness. January 14th was an extremely convicting exhortation on the dangers of grumbling and complaining. January 21st was about envy. There will be nine more weeks of the series, too. Click on the link to listen via the web. If you always thought Numbers was a boring book (or even if you didn't), this is for you!

I also just finished reading the book Stepping Heavenward, the journal of a nineteenth century Christian young woman. My friend Tricia sent me the book a few weeks ago, and she knew me well enough to know that I would benefit from reading about someone who went through many of the same struggles I experience now (less-than-perfect health, setting expectations too high for myself, falling into the same patterns of sin over and over). It was comforting and convicting at the same time, and it's the kind of thing where you can read only a little at a time and still enjoy it.