I'm preaching three times at the Tasmanian Ministry Challenge Conference in a month's time. I've chosen the topic 'Priorities and Privation'.

I want to do some hard theological work on how we hold together convictions about the goodness of God's creation and the glory we bring to God by enjoying him and his world... and yet the call the sacrifice.

I've set aside four days to basically read and work on it over the next month, along with working on it in between the cracks of other things.

It's a very very complicated topic. The more I think about it, the messier it gets. It kind of begins to swallow up almost all dimensions of ethics. No big deal.

• I think the topic of 'marriage' is one of the clearest ways in. It has the most detailed in the NT - 1Corinthians 7 alone is quite nuanced.
• I think I will spend one sermon on how we relate the two great commandments.
• And I'm wondering whether I should spend on sermon on the Sabbath? Hard to say.

Any articles, books, sermons, concepts you can recommend?