Money Matters

The Value of Goals | 5 Reasons to Identify Your Destination

Have you ever gone on a family trip with no destination? Wandering aimlessly just wastes the journey.   Art Rainer explains how setting goals is important in direction, decision-making, motivation, celebration and unification.   By Art Rainer | Article from Artrainer.com September 2015 Goals are powerful, but often overlooked, tools. Imagine […]

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Redirection

What do you do when your plans, your career or your life does not work out?  As we try to faithfully steward our lives, it can be discouraging to have to turn your ‘Plan A’ into a plan B,  C or D!  The author of this article shows us that despite our ‘broken roads

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Good Sleep

What does getting a good night’s sleep have to do with what we believe?  This author writes on how getting sleep – is not only counter-cultural, but a testimony to the creation story. By Jill Carattini | Article from SliceofInfinity.org  AUGUST 2015 The Christian Vision Project was an initiative that began

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The Need to Redefine Stewardship

By Dave Ramsey | Article from stewardshipcentral.org  AUGUST 2015 When many church members hear the word “stewardship,” one idea pops into their minds: capital campaigns. They think about building projects and fundraisers. They can’t help it. That’s how stewardship has been defined in churches for years. It’s become part of our Christian culture.

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Where is Your Treasure?

By Franklin Graham  | devotion from Billygraham.org  4 AUGUST 2015 You cannot serve two masters: God and money. —Matthew 6:24 (TLB) Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to

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12 Truths I’ve Learned About Personal Giving

By Chuck Lawless | Article from blog.echurchgiving.com 11 AUGUST 2015 – See more at: http://blog.echurchgiving.com/12-truths-ive-learned-about-personal-giving/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=eChurch%20Weekly&utm_term=sent081615&utm_content=blogtitle&utm_campaign=Email%20-%20eChurch%20Weekly#sthash.iLpG6Cdz.dpuf I grew up in a home that struggled with money. My parents often spent more than we had, so debt had a stranglehold on all we did. My response as an adult has been to

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Should Christians Practice the Tithe?

By Brian Zahnd | article from echurchgiving.com  5 AUGUST 2015 http://blog.echurchgiving.com/should-christians-practice-the-tithe/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=eChurch%20Weekly&utm_term=sent081615&utm_content=button&utm_campaign=Email%20-%20eChurch%20Weekly As a pastor I am regularly asked if Christians should tithe—or put more explicitly, should Christians adopt the ancient Israelite practice set forth in the Hebrew Scriptures of giving to God the first tenth of our increase. My simplest answer

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