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Money and Greed

Study Says Better – Off are More Likely to Lie and Cheat | Do You Agree?

Due to the recent economic mess in our country, many media outlets have done stories about the unethical behavior of many CEO’s and other higher-ups in boardrooms across America.  Do a majority of people in this position act like Ken Lay of Enron or do the examples we hear about represent a minority? Psychologists at [...]

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Biblical Financial Stewardship:  Manage Money God

Biblical Financial Stewardship: How We’re Trying to Manage Money God’s Way

I recently had an opportunity to give a testimony and speech to several small groups at my church about God’s purpose for money.  Part of the speech provided an opportunity for me to share some of the things Jennifer and I are doing to try to manage money God’s way and I thought I would [...]

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Secret of Generosity

Principles of Christian Giving (2 Corinthians 8)

The largest discussion of Christian giving in the entire New Testament is found in 2 Cor. 8 & 9.  I have always wanted to tackle this passage in an extensive way.  Recently, I found the time to do just that.  Rather than provide a lengthy commentary on the passage, I decided to break it up [...]

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What Does the Bible Say About Sharing

What Does the Bible Say About Sharing?

I have to admit, we tend to think of “sharing” as something that we tell children to do as they rip toys out of each other’s hands.  But, if we are being honest, the instruction to “share” seems to disappear with our tea sets, tater tots, and superman sheets.  The entire notion that it is a [...]

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Bible Verses on Money: Why I’m Turning My Bible Green

This year, I have once again decided to read through the Bible on a one year plan.  This works great for me as the readings are not extremely long; however, they are long enough to cover a topic or event and hold my interest.  I’ll often rabbit trail off of one of the items or [...]

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Why Did Jesus Challenge His Followers to Give it “All” Away?

In my recent book, The Secret of Generosity, I take a whole chapter to tackle the difficult question that faces every Christian that takes God’s word seriously:  Should we give it all away? It’s a tough question, and one that merits consideration from anyone seriously considering the call of Christ.  After all, Jesus plainly told [...]

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Should Churches Build “Temples”?

In December, I released my third book, The Secret of Generosity.  In a year’s worth of writing, editing, re-writing, and more editing, some parts get “left on the editor’s floor”.  The following selection ultimately did not make the final cut.  I was trying to make the point that I struggle with some churches justification to [...]

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Christian Financial Alliance

The Poor, to Give or Not to Give? [Christian Financial Alliance]

The Christian Financial Alliance  was created to help readers.  The idea is this:  Create a panel of biblical finance gurus.  People who take seriously the call to teach the Bible accurately with grace and truth.  Once a month, we post a question with a response from our panel to provide you with well-rounded, sound, biblical advice.  For more on the [...]

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3 Financial Lessons from The Bible

3 Financial Lessons from The Bible

According to Christian financial author, Howard Dayton, The Bible contains over 2,300 scriptures related to money. I think it’s amazing The Bible has that much to say about money. It seems money and the management of it has always been a challenge for people and there exists an unending need to provide wisdom about how [...]

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Christian Financial Alliance

How Do You Define Generosity? [Christian Financial Alliance]

The Christian Financial Alliance was created to help readers.  The idea is this:  Create a panel of biblical finance gurus.  People who take seriously the call to teach the Bible accurately with grace and truth.  Once a month, we post a question with a response from our panel to provide you with well-rounded, sound, biblical advice.  For more on [...]

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Christian Stewardship: Managing the Remaining 90%

We often hear pastors and teachers teach about the 10% that we are to tithe.  But what about the other 90% required for good Christian stewardship?  Have we ever considered what we are to do with that and who really owns it? In Genesis 14:19b, we are told “God Most High, possessor of heaven and [...]

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Is Your Financial Life Missing the Most Important Ingredient?

Among the flurry of information out there regarding how we should go about handling our money, it’s easy to get lost in the enormity of advice.  As if this wasn’t hard enough, when we dig deeper into the issue of personal finance, we find more and more that people contradict one another.  At some point [...]

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