Ordering Your Private World
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Has anyone seen my time? I’ve misplaced it.
We have schedule planners, computerized calendars, smart phones, and sticky notes to help us organize our business and social lives every day. But what about organizing the other side of our livesthe spiritual side.
One of the great battlegrounds is within the private world of the individual. The values of our Western culture would have us believe the busy, publicly active person in ministry is also the most spiritual. Tempted to give imbalanced attention to the public world at the expense of the private, we become involved in more programs, more meetings. Our massive responsibilities at home, work, and church have resulted in many good people on the verge of collapse.
In this updated classic Ordering Your Private World, Gordon MacDonald equips a new generation to live life from the inside out, cultivating the inner victory necessary for public effectiveness.
“With much enthusiasm I recommend this book to all of you who, like me, need order in your private world.”
—Charles Swindoll, Chancellor, Dallas Theological SeminaryThis is a Logos Reader Edition. Learn more.
- Includes a short "Memo to the Disorganized" at the beginning of each chapter
- Seeks to move readers to establish a life built on discipline and intentionality
- Accentuates the fact that ordering one's private world is an inside-out matter, not an outside-in matter
- The Sinkhole Syndrome
- A View from the Bridge
- Caught in a Golden Cage
- The Tragic Tale of a Successful Bum
- Living as a Called Person
- Has Anyone Seen My Time? I’ve Misplaced It!
- Recapturing My Time
- The Better Man Lost
- The Sadness of a Book Never Read
- Order in the Garden
- No Outer Props Necessary
- Everything Has to Be Entered
- Seeing Through Heaven’s Eyes
- Rest Beyond Leisure
Top Highlights
“The first thing that impresses me is that Jesus clearly understood His mission. He had an overarching task to perform, and He measured His use of time against that sense of mission.” (Page 74)
“A second insight into Jesus’ personal organization of time is that He understood His own limits.” (Page 75)
“Jesus knew His limits well. Strange as it may seem, He knew what we conveniently forget: that time must be properly budgeted for the gathering of inner strength and resolve in order to compensate for one’s weaknesses when spiritual warfare begins.” (Page 75)
“1. A driven person is most often gratified only by accomplishment.” (Page 31)
“Law #3: Unmanaged Time Surrenders to the Demands of All Emergencies” (Page 81)
Reviews
2 ratings
Daniel Adams
3/10/2025
Elonda
2/1/2024
Weldon Wong
9/15/2022
A pastor recommended the original edition 35 years ago. I look forward to reading the revised edition. This item is based on the older 2003 edition. Ignore that it is displayed with the newer cover, the ebook will be loaded with the older red cover. If you want the newer 2017 edition, please go to the ebooks.faithlife.com item instead. https://www.logos.com/product/121103/ordering-your-private-world
