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What’s the Cost of Radical Generosity?
According to writer/editor Tim Challies, there is indeed a substantial cost when it comes to radical generosity, but it’s definitely worth it. (Photo: Stewardship-Transforming Generosity, Creative Commons)
Done with Sit Down, Shut Up
People are leaving their churches because they feel excluded from participating in the communication of the message. They have heard countless sermons, but they grew weary, very weary, of sitting in pews, feeling muzzled, while the person on stage monopolizes every word, says Thom Schultz of Holy Soup. (Photo by stephen_jamesP, used by Creative Commons license)
5 Golden Rules of Church Finance
Church scandals involving mismanagement of money not only generate headlines, they also erode trust among the people needed to support our ministries. Here are some tips for building and maintaining trust. From LifeWay resources. (Photo by Mark Willylis, used by Creative Commons license)
Changing Your Stewardship Culture
Most of our congregations function with a single team of people who are responsible for all conversations, leadership, implementation, and oversight about everything financial. This is a mistake. Here are some tips on how to do better, from the Center for Faith & Giving. (Photo by d-olwen-dee, used by Creative Commons license)
Easy Answer for Church Survival
As American churches face the future, they increasingly realize that if something doesn’t change, they won’t survive. But what is it that must change? How they answer that question actually predicts their future, says Thom Schultz of Holysoup.com. (Photo by CarbonNYC used by creative commons license)
Fostering an Attitude of Gratitude
As we grow beyond the narrow understanding of stewardship as an annual fundraising exercise – or as the late Terry Parsons used to call it, the “annual beg-a-thon†– God begins to reshape our concept of what “gift†and “giving†actually mean. From the Episcopal Church Foundation. (Photo by Tiger Girl, used by Creative Commons license.)
A Lenten Stewardship Devotion
The forty days of Lent provide stewards with a marvelous opportunity to evaluate the nature of our life’s “work.†Being reminded to take a meaningful and substantive spiritual “pause†in our lives for forty days is a gift in itself. Good reading from the International Catholic Stewardship Council. (Photo by mwms1916, used by Creative Commons […]
Show Generosity to the Poor
As God convicted my heart and I began to read Scripture with fresh eyes, whole sections of the Bible came alive for me. In particular, God’s concern for orphans struck a chord, says Chip Ingram in a blog post on Lifeway.com. (Photo by Alan Light, used by Creative Commons license)
Hey Men! Why Give Money to the Church?
In our culture many men are obsessed with money. Can making money be bad? Only if a man allows it to control his life. Normally when you make it to give it, you control it, not the other way around. Here is some advice for men in dealing with money, from Charisma magazine. (Photo © […]
New Questions for a New Day
It’s time to start asking new questions. Better answers to the same old questions about the church will not get us through the tumultuous times in which we live. This is a time for out-of-the box thinking. Old questions keep is in the box. New questions invite us to move outside, writes Jeffrey D. Jones […]
