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Generosity Requires Self-Sacrifice
He who gives what he would readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
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Holiday Hand-Me-Downs
The Sunday before Christmas, my Sunday school class brought me gifts. One little girl presented her package and innocently said, "Here, someone gave this ...
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Don't Give Like a Chicken
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs and then cackles.
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Giving Fifty Percent
A young family regularly sits behind my parents during morning worship. Every Sunday when the offering is taken, the father gives each of his children ...
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Giving on the Edge
While Eric Hulstrand of Binford, North Dakota, was preaching one Sunday, an elderly woman, Mary, fainted and struck her head on the end of the pew. Immediately, ...
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Olympias: An Example of Generosity
Olympias, a daughter of the wealthy Count Seleusus, was born near Constantinople in 368. Apparently her parents died when she was still quite young, but ...
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Robin Hood's Not a Good Example
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
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Does It Hurt?
When you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she will often begin to poke, prod, and press various places, all the while asking, "Does ...
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Others in Me
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in ...
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Giving in Secret
Charles Spurgeon and his wife, according to a story in The Chaplain magazine, would sell, but refused to give away, the eggs their chickens laid. Even ...
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