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How Can People Be Robbing God by Withholding a Freewill Offering?

March 18, 2010

What you're saying may seem to make sense, but the fact is Malachi 3:8 says it is so: "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ In tithes and offerings."

 

Cultivating Joy in Our Giving

March 17, 2010

Giving infuses life with joy. It interjects an eternal dimension into even the most ordinary day. That’s just one reason you couldn’t pay me enough not to give. The joy Nanci and I experience comes in envisioning what God is doing in people’s lives for eternity through what we’ve given to Him.

 

Six Keys from The Treasure Principle

March 16, 2010

The Treasure Principle: You can’t take it with you, but... you can send it on ahead.

 

Should business owners tithe on the gross income or the net income?

March 11, 2010

Tithing is done on profit—what you have truly made, how much you’ve actually come out ahead. That wouldn’t include all gross business income, since much, usually most, of that must pay for the business goods, employees, etc., which are providing the services making the money in the first place.

 

Should Giving Always Be Kept Secret?

March 11, 2010

Over the last ten years, I’ve been suggesting that we learn how to share testimonies about giving in order to help the body of Christ grow in the grace of giving. 

 

Should Giving Records Be Available to the Church Pastoral Staff?

March 11, 2010

I would recommend caution on this. On the one hand, I’m hesitant for church leaders to know how much anyone gives because of the temptation to violate James 2 and treat big givers with favoritism and ignore lesser givers.

 

Should I Buy That Corvette?

March 11, 2010

If I were you I would take the money I would have spent on the Corvette, and give it to missions and famine relief. Everyone comes out ahead that way—God is glorified, people are kept alive and reached with the gospel, and you will lay up treasures in heaven, and Jesus says your heart will follow your treasures.

 

Should I Get Out of Debt First Before I Give Beyond My Tithe?

March 11, 2010

While getting out of debt is a high biblical priority it is as much a wisdom issue as a righteousness one, and requires discernment and good strategy not just a single act of obedience.

 

Should I tithe on gifts and even scholarship money I receive?

March 11, 2010

I would tithe on gifts and scholarships because they are true income.

 

Should I Tithe or Pay off My Debt First?

March 11, 2010

Ask yourself “Why am I in debt in the first place?” Is God responsible for my unwise or greedy decisions that may have put me there? And even if I’ve come into debt legitimately, isn’t my first debt to God?