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Justin Whitmel Earley is no Olympic athlete (that I know of). He’s an attorney, a husband, a dad, an author and most importantly, a Christian. His winsome tone and similarly smelling feet of clay (like ours) makes his book The Common Rule a helpful and hopeful resource on the formation of lasting habits. He really hasn’t invented anything new, but what he has done is dust off some ancient practice...

Chances are you have been stuck. If you aren’t now, you will be. And that state of stuckness can pervade almost every vocation of our lives. Enter The Common Rule.This is the beginning of a series about wrestling with life’s distractions by considering habit formation. It’s about how habits can help free us from some of the logjams we get ourselves into. Justin W. Earley’s book The Common Rule: Ha...

Those of us in our early earning years must ask ourselves how much of our income is being spent unnecessarily. Biblical giving is sacrificial giving and will result in there being “things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.” How many times a week do you eat out? How often do you buy coffee? What entertainment platforms are you paying for? These ques...