I love the word discipline. But I hate "doing" it. I should be more disciplined, but I'm really just not. One of my favorite books of all time is Disciplines of a Godly Man by R. Kent Hughes. I like the book for it's systematic and Scriptural take on the do's and don't's of Christian manhood. I recognize that we need to be careful not to get caught up in legalism, but personally, I've spent so much time worrying about being legalistic that I've often swung the other way.

You've probably heard me say and you will certainly hear it again, that books (beside the Bible itself) contain opinion and therefore lies. I don't care how Godly or ungodly the author is or was, there is deception in every book and hopefully at least a little truth. From now on, I will call this the Tot Bawt Baw Principle.