archive: Stewardship

How Much Is Enough? May17

There are two questions every man must answer…. How much is enough? and Where does my significance come from? Today, we’ll tackle the “how much is enough” question.  Next week, we’ll talk about significance. For a couple or three generations, parents pounded the ‘success’ mantra into their kids (that would be us baby boomers). “You [...]

Set A Giving Goal Dec28

Over the first 33 years of my life, I probably gave less than $2000 to the church and charity ….total! But when God showed up in my life, I quickly realized that He owned everything. My career, my wife, my kids, my health….everything. As I started to read the Bible, I was hit with verses [...]

The Poor Will Always Be With You Sep1

The words of Jesus almost take away the urgency to help, don’t they? In the moment, Jesus was teaching his disciples the difference between the temporal and the eternal, between the practical and the divine. We’ve taken his words out of context and used them to set ourselves free from taking the needs of the [...]