Occupation: Author Birth: June 23, 1954
If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right..
God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge o….
The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a gateway to the joy of grace giving. It's unhea….
Give deliberately. Giving is at its best when it's a conscious effort that's repeatedly made..
The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity..
God is grooming us for leadership. He's watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one tha….
To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in ….
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, ….
The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent..
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story,….
When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either i….
If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without ….
Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up trea….
Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good Go….
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our gr….
What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to….
He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity.
Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving..
Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept..
Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of ….
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption tha….