Serve God. Save the Planet.

I just finished an awesome book that I highly recommend if you're interested the convergence of going green and God.

Serve God. Save the Planet by Matthew Sleeth, M.D. is a book about how Christians should respond to the environmental crisis we are all facing.

Five years ago, Dr. Sleeth and his family lived in a big house, had two luxury cars and many material possessions. As chief of the medical staff at a large hospital, Sleeth was living the American dream—until he realized that something was terribly wrong. As he saw patient after patient suffering from cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases, he began to understand that the earth and its inhabitants were in trouble. He turned to his faith for guidance and discovered how the Scriptural lessons of personal responsibility, simplicity, and stewardship could be applied to modern life.

The Sleeths have since sold their big home and given away more than half of what they once owned. Dr. Sleeth shares the joy of adopting a less materialistic lifestyle, and reveals what was easy and what was hard about the changes his family made. I found tons of simple and practical suggestions, and felt like Sleeth made a compelling case for action without sounding too "preachy."

Dr. Sleeth is now working on a second book about the modern hang ups with "time" (as in feeling like we never have enough of it). He gave a sneak peak of the material last week as the guest preacher at Rob Bell's Mars Hill Church. Check out the podcast of his sermon here.