The statement, “When you give, you will take away” is an intriguing maxim, isn’t it? It at first blush almost sounds contradictory. Let me give you some simple examples to illustrate its truth. If you give food to a man, you will take away his hunger. If you give love to a child, you will [...]
Would the word joyful describe how you feel when you give? Many believers would answer that question, “No, not really.” And there may be several reasons for this. We may be giving with feelings of obligation or duty or simply because we don’t know how to say no when we are asked. It seems far [...]
If word-abuse was a crime, many pastors/ministers would be in jail over how they have abused one of our most important, biblical terms – the word stewardship. If you were to poll your congregation and ask them what the word stewardship means, I suspect that if your church is like most, the overwhelming majority of [...]
Not long ago I came across an all too familiar statement by Solomon in Proverbs 3:9-10 that I had read many times before. However, I must admit that I had never really plumbed the depths of this statement until recently. I just read it, noted it and moved on. When I decided to study it [...]
