"Hoosiers": Taking Risks on Others

The movie Hoosiers tells the Cinderella story of a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship. One important character, ...

Money Can Complicate Faith

Warren Bailey died July 14, 2000, at age 88. He had no family. And he wasn't much of a church-going man. To the best of anybody's recollection ...

Givers Receive

I've been going to professional baseball games and trying to get a souvenir baseball as far back as I can remember. A foul ball, a home run ball, ...

Giving Now

A preacher paid a visit to a farmer and asked, "If you had 200 dollars, would you give 100 dollars to the Lord?

"Sure would," said the farmer.

God Is My Co-Signer

Since we are only stewards of the possessions God has seen fit to give us, every decision we make relating to our possessions has a spiritual implication. ...

Skimming Off the Top?

Finding a volunteer to be church treasurer is always a challenge. But after reading the church's Annual Report, I was not surprised to hear several members ...

Open Hands Go Both Ways

All too often we regard stewardship simply as a matter of our giving to God, but this aspect is secondary. Before we can give, we must possess, and before ...

Bread and Silver

Wesley limited his expenditures by not buying the kinds of things generally considered essential for a man in his station of life. In 1776 the English ...

Faithfulness Better than Success

It is required of a man that he be faithful, not successful.

Pictures, not Money

A dad is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his family.