Giving

Christian Giving, Christian Tithing & Other Giving Strategies

by Craig

Share Some people just want to learn skills and techniques on how to increase their business profit.  Others want to know how to maximize their investment returns.  In an effort to learn those things, people go chasing after various techniques and strategies.  Today, I want to introduce some common strategies for Christian giving or Christian tithing.   Some [...]

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Christian Giving: Seeking A Healthy View of Giving and Tithing

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Share When it comes to Christian giving, no one passage has caused as much debate as the following Bible verse: Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7 NIV) This passage seems to carry many of [...]

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Money Does Buy Happiness (Fulfillment)

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Share One of the premises of the book, Your Money or Your Life, is that there is a positive relationship between spending and fulfillment.  In other words, the more money you spend the more fulfillment you experience.  However, this relationship has a limit.  Thus, while money cannot buy happiness, money can buy fulfillment -but only [...]

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What I Learned From Trying To Give Away Free Tickets To AstroWorld: A Giving Effort that Backfired

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Share Since I am in the process of participating in the 10 Day Give event I thought I would share my favorite giving experience.  It is not my favorite experience because the act of charity was received with such joy and appreciation.  It is my favorite because of how difficult I found it to give. [...]

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When is it Christ-like to say no to a benevolence request?

by Craig

Share Many of the concepts introduced here come from a third world context, but are beneficial in North America as they give us the opportunity to reevaluate the fundamentals of our benevolence ministries.  For background information, many people in Alotau find it very hard to say no to requests.  Yet, we needed to establish a [...]

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101 Ways To Give: Time, Money, Energy, and Talents

by Craig

Share Ever wanted to give to someone, but excused yourself from proceeding just because you didn’t know what to do?  Perhaps you have wanted to do something nice to someone but know you really can’t afford to give much.  The reality is that God is pleased when we are givers.  What we give can be [...]

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A Discussion on Justice and Generosity: Did “The Little Red Hen” Do the Right Thing?

by Craig

Share The Little Red Hen is a story I occasionally read to my daughter.  The story is one of justice, independence, with a ‘what goes around comes around’ moral.  It is a classical story with four characters – a goose that is a gossip, a cat that is vain, a dog that snoozes life away, [...]

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Proportionate Giving

by Craig

Share Photo by Brent Nelson Discussions regarding tithing and giving can quickly create a lot of discussion in a room full of Christians.  Many Christians have differing ideas and concepts regarding giving and tithing.  As for me, I’m still learning, seeking, studying, and trying to determine if I can ever completely know God’s will for [...]

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Tithing (Giving) While in Debt

by Craig

Share The following is a question a reader emailed to me: How do you balance good stewardship and putting God first – or is there a difference? Let’s say you have gotten into a lot of debt, learned a lot of hard lessons and are doing everything possible to improve your financial situation. You have [...]

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Is 10% the Same for Everyone?

by Craig

Share True or False 10% – it doesn’t matter if you are rich or if you are poor because 10% is 10% and affects everyone equally. Photo by Mr. Kris. I question if giving 10% of everyone’s income impacts everyone equally. Let’s take shopping as an example: Assume that last week you bought a bag [...]

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