We continued The Game of Life series on Sunday and our stop was night school. The big idea was “keep asking questions.” I said that the Great Commandment is 25% intellectual and the word “disciple” literally means “learner.” We tend of think of stewardship in terms of time, talent, and treasure. But I think intellectual stewardship is one of the most important forms of stewardship. It’s about making the most of the mind (right-brain and left-brain) God has given us. At the end of the day, I think you are what you read. I was thinking in terms of “dead tree” books, but an NCCer emailed me and told me he bought an Ipod not to listen to music, but to download and listen to audio books. He uses his down time and commute time to feed his mind. That’s great stewardship! By the way, he’s listening to everything from Gulag Archipelago to Wealth of Nations to Thomas Aquinas. He’s even learning Chinese! I sincerely believe that the Ipod is one of the greatest discipleship tools to hit the market if Christians would simply think about it the right way. Success guru, Earl Nightingale, once said, “Tape listening is the most important advance in technology since the invention of the printing press. The reason is that almost 100 percent of humanity’s six billion people can listen–in their own language–barring only the hearing-impaired.” Interesting observation. The Ipod takes it to a new level. An investment of thirty minutes a day listening to a message or motivational tape adds up to one month of forty-hour work weeks of listening and learning and growing! Your car can be turned into a classroom on wheels. The metro can be turned into a classroom on tracks. It’s all about redeeming the time. Our “spare moments” add up over the course of a year or decade or lifetime. What we do with our “spare time” is what will make us or break us!