What is our most important stewardship? As we enter the New Year, most of us will undertake a review of our plans and priorities: we will review our finances and other challenges with a fresh and unencumbered perspective. But how should we "rank order" the competing demands on our time and resources?

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth and put perverse lips far from you. - Proverbs 4:23-24 Failure to take seriously the advice and admonition of this verse leads to several diagnoses – heartache, heartbreak, hard-heartedness, faintheartedness, and the like.

Christians are not called to a monastic lifestyle of isolation but to be a member of a living body of Believers with Jesus Christ as the Head. Jesus highlighted that fact when He told His disciples...