What does it mean to be rich?
The First Coins Did you know that the very first coins to be used as currency were in Lydia, modern day Turkey. The Lydian coin came into existence around 610-600…
Tag: generosity
What if Everyone Gave?
No Rain, No Hope In the early 1930s, severe dust storms ravaged the Great Plains. Texas and Oklahoma were among some of the states that were affected the most. Between…
Giving, Worry, and God
Worry Much? How much would you give to God if you were not worried about money? Can I make a confession, from time to time, I worry about money. I’m…
Are You Rich?
What does it mean to be truly rich? A few weeks ago I had a Saturday where I got to spend almost the entire day with my daughters. Alisha and…
God of Abundance
If I could just have… The great theologian Janis Joplin who once sang… Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amendsWorked…
Generous Giving + 3 Guiding Questions
Giving with Open Hands What happens when we are generous? When our generosity signals our readiness and expectation for God to move? When I was growing up our family went…
God On A Mission
God’s Mission Ed Stetzer once said this about the church… “God’s church doesn’t have a mission, God’s mission has a church.”Ed Stetzer You may wonder what that has to do…
It Is Better to GIVE
What if we GIVE? What if we believed in the God who can do immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine? What would happen in us? How would our…
4 Books about Money, Giving & Generosity
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There’s a simple truth about those of us who call ourselves followers of Jesus. We are a people of uncommon generosity. Why? Because we realize that we are never more…