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Generosity

10 Questions to Ask Before You Buy

08.07.2012

It’s no wonder they call it disposable income.  The bags I can so easily fill with things that once looked nice and shiny and like a ‘great deal’ often do nothing but cause us a great deal of stress.  The lines between wants and needs are so blurred these days and all it can take [...]

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The Only Safe Rule-Why It’s Okay to Pinch Pennies

08.01.2012

‘I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, and amusements, etc. is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, [...]

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Why It’s Okay to Feel Spent

07.31.2012

Well, we’ve officially got no fruit left in this house, not even raisins or dried figs or those weird canned mandarin oranges supposedly marinating in their own juice.  We do have 4 lemons left.  But for some reason the kids aren’t that into eating lemons. Veggies?   We’ve got 3 whole organic carrots left, a [...]

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The Thing that Could Finally Make Your Kids Happy

07.27.2012

‘If I could, sweet girl, I would love to buy you this one thing.’ ‘What, Mama, what would you get me?’ ‘I would buy you contentment. Because that’s really the only thing that will finally make you happy with all these things.’ ‘What’s contentment?’ ‘It’s satisfaction, peace, a sweet place of rest. I could buy [...]

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If You Want to Be Glad Today

07.25.2012

We all wake up wondering, ‘What will I get today?’ What can I eat, what can I buy, what is there to wear, anything fun to do? We are all looking all over the place for joy. But Christ asks it through David, ‘TODAY, who then will offer, willingly, consecrating himself to the Lord?’ 1 [...]

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What the Poor Mother Owns (That I Don’t)

07.24.2012

It was the rich man who asked ‘What can I do?’ But it was the poor mother who cried out loud, ‘Lord help me!’  She was happy to admit she was a dog, if only Jesus would just give her a few crumbs for her ailing daughter. I must admit this: the weekend before we [...]

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If You Think You’re Middle Class

06.05.2012

‘…those who are middle-class in spirit tend to be indifferent to the poor, but people who come to grasp the gospel of grace and become spiritually poor find their hearts gravitating toward the marginally poor. To the degree that the gospel shapes your self-image, you will identify with those in need… You will see their [...]

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For All My Excuses

05.18.2012

“Now dear Christians, some of your pray night and day to be branches of the true Vine; you pray to be made all over in the image of Christ.  If so, you must be like him in giving… ‘Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor’… Objection 1: “My money is my [...]

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A Small Thing: Pray for One

04.12.2012

The numbers can get to you sometimes. The 6938 people groups still considered unreached by the gospel which means at least 2,878,502,000 individuals have never even had a chance to reject or accept Christ. The 3.5 million people that die every year from a water related disease. The 1.8 billion people that lack safe drinking water. [...]

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Imagine with Me…

03.24.2012

You turn the lights off and go to bed one night. Everything in the world is normal. You wake up and head to the bathroom to start your shower. Brown water pours from the faucet. You shut it off and go into the kitchen. The sink is producing the same result. As you look out the window, you [...]

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