Over the years, I have watched many loving parents and grandparents agonize greatly as they watch the children in their lives struggling. It doesn’t seem to matter whether these struggles are self-inflicted consequences of their own poor choices or if they are completely apart from anything they have done wrong. The agony in either situation [...]
Do you have a verse or two in the Bible that you rather wish was not in there? I think all of us do. Like, maybe, “love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44) or forgiving people “seventy times seven” (Matthew 18:22) or “regard one another as more important than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3)? These verses are like spiritual [...]
Tragic as it is, the concept of stewardship is so poorly taught and so poorly practiced among followers of Jesus that it is necessary to provide a clear description of how a good and faithful steward should live. The life of an obedient steward possesses three dominant life-characteristics. As we consider each of these characteristics, [...]
Over the past few years, I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the term generous giving. In spite of that, I personally like the term. Both the words generous and giving are used in Scripture, albeit not in the same place very often (Psalm 37:21, James 1:5). However, as I continue to try to personally embrace [...]
