China has opened a free website www.linese.com so that you can learn Mandarin. If anyone wants to look around the the site and see how usable it is and report back I would be appreciative. All the traffic the site was receiving last week caused it to run rather slow, but heres hoping that they have fixed those problems.
Reconsecration to a Wartime Lifestyle (PDF) is a classic article written by Dr. Ralph Winter, founder of the U.S. Center for World Missions, about Christians mobilizing for the spiritual war that we are in. Using the service of the Queen Mary during war time as an illustration, he talks about ways believers need to deny themselves for the good of the war.
Reconsecration.org is a website that tries to help Christians reconsecrate their lives with practical advice and resources including a spread sheet for setting up a budget. This is taken from their FAQ page:
Why use the language of “war”? Who is the enemy?
We are advocating reconsecration to a wartime lifestyle in order to overcome evil with good, especially by freeing up millions of dollars to overcome all kinds of evil. We are pointing to a war that is going on now, that threatens the planet. The Bible says, ‘The whole world lies under the power of the evil one.” (I John 5:14). We are pledging ourselves to a “wartime lifestyle”, in order to produce the instruments that will win the war. The Bible says, “The Son of God appeared in order to destroy the works of the devil” (I John 3:8). The works of the devil are evident all around us.
Do you guys have any advice on how to ration well?
