Why is Charitable Giving Important?

Why is Charitable Giving Important? – “How should we think about our own giving? I don’t have a formula or a clear target percentage for you, but Scripture does speak to the motives and purposes of our giving.”

God Takes Our Stinginess or Generosity Personally

God Takes Our Stinginess or Generosity Personally – “Any lifestyle that doesn’t align with God’s priorities and won’t hold up after death is not a good one—no matter how glamorous or appealing or sensible it seems at the time.”

God Takes Our Stinginess or Generosity Personally

God Takes Our Stinginess or Generosity Personally – “To understand what constitutes the good life, we need to understand what life really is, where it comes from, and where it’s going.”

Generous Tipping to Honor the King

Generous Tipping to Honor the King – “When Christians are stingy and demanding, that has a real effect on service workers. If you pray over a meal and are unkind to the staff, that hampers your witness and the witness of others for the gospel.”

What Did Jesus Teach about Giving Generously?

What Did Jesus Teach about Giving Generously? – “The more sacrificially generous you are on earth, the greater will be your enjoyment of heaven. Since Jesus loves us and summons us to maximize our eternal joy in heaven, he demands radical freedom from the love of money and radical generosity, especially toward the poor.”

Don’t Reap to the Edges of Your Life

Don’t Reap to the Edges of Your Life – “How are we doing with applying the principle behind this injunction? Do we take for ourselves all we can from this life? Or do we live remembering our duty to God and our neighbor?”

Generous Patience

Generous Patience – “For humans to become what God made us to be requires one of the greatest generosities of all: the generosity of patience. What is patience but pure generosity?”

God or Money: Detangling a Complicated Relationship

God or Money: Detangling a Complicated Relationship – “Christians have a complicated relationship with money and gospel ministry.”

 

Seven Principles of Finance for the Believer

Seven Principles of Finance for the Believer – “This outline provides the diligent believer with some key principles preparing him/her for radical, other-worldly financial behavior. 

 

How to Plan Your Giving as a Married Couple

How to Plan Your Giving as a Married Couple – “In our deliberations and decision making, we recommend the following process…”

How to Set Wise and Generous Financial Goals

How to Set Wise and Generous Financial Goals – “Set financial goals rooted in needs and generosity that will grow your faith. Trust God for the rest.”

The Pleasure of Giving

The Pleasure of Giving – “Here are eight reasons why it is more blessed to give money than to get it. All God’s laws are given to enhance and elevate our lives, so obeying this one will not spoil or ruin our happiness but rather increase it.”

The Bible’s Strange Reasons for Generosity

The Bible’s Strange Reasons for Generosity – “We tend to think about stewardship and generosity as something God calls us to once we’ve got it all together. But that’s not how Paul thinks about generosity.”

Challenge of Charity

Challenge of Charity – “Perhaps it goes without saying, but not all giving is good. It doesn’t take much travel around the world to find problems with Christian charity.” There are plenty of example of well-meaning “help” that ends up causing problems and hurt.

How To Raise A Generous Child

How To Raise A Generous Child – Here are ten practical ideas.

God Loves Through Human Love: How Grace Breeds Generosity

God Loves Through Human Love: How Grace Breeds Generosity – “What is even more surprising about 2 Corinthians 8–9 is how the material grace of humans is inextricably connected to the immaterial grace of God.”

7 Questions You Can Ask God about Giving

7 Questions You Can Ask God about Giving – “The Bible is full of teachings about money, because money tends to wrestle for first place in our hearts. But God knows our hearts, and if we ask Him, He will guide us. Consider all you’ve been given by praying through the questions below.”

What Does the Bible Say About Christian Tithing?

What Does the Bible Say About Christian Tithing? – “The beauty of the tithe is that it precluded class warfare and the politics of envy.”

 

What Sparks Evangelical Generosity? Discipleship

What Sparks Evangelical Generosity? Discipleship – “While most evangelicals give to a church (74%) or a charity (58%), 19% of evangelicals give no money at all to church or charity. Looking specifically at church giving in the last year, researchers found that 26% of evangelicals gave nothing to church.”

Has Materialism Distracted Your Heart?

Has Materialism Distracted Your Heart? – “With his birth, we commemorate the coming of our Savior. However, if we aren’t careful that majesty can be overshadowed by materialism.”