Practical Living

    Material in this section is helpful in applying Biblical principles and doctrines to our everyday life.  Most of the subheadings are self explanatory.

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It is said that sometimes one just does not have time to read.  Consider John Piper's answer to that. "If you read slowly like I do (maybe the same speed you speak - 200 words a minute) and you read 15 minutes a day for one year (like just before supper or bedtime); you will read 5,475 minutes in a year.  Multiply (sorry, this IS the only math on this website) that by 200 words a minute and you get 1,095,000 words that you would read in a year.  Now an average serious book might have about 360 words per page.  So you would have read 3,041 pages in one year.  That's ten very substantial books.  All in fifteen minutes a day! 

Or, to be more specific, my copy of Calvin's Institutes has 1,521 pages in two volumes, with an average of 400 words per page, which is 608,400 words.  That means that even if you took a day off each week, you could read this great biblical vision of God and man in less than 9 months at 15 minutes a day!"