Giving Teaches Dependence

When we let go of money, we are letting go of part of ourselves and part of our security. But this is precisely why it is important to do it. It is one ...

Be Generous in Giving

Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. ...

People Give to Hope

People give to achievement and promise and hope, not deficits.

Don't Just Give, Steward

[Wesley's] famous formula, "Get all you can; save all you can; give all you can," must be supplemented. It should read: get all you can; ...

Giving Benefits You, Not God

I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say, "There-now ...

Giving Wealth Gives Self

Money as a form of power is so intimately related to the possessor that one cannot consistently give money without giving self.

Good Example Is Gift

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

Loving the Unlovable

One day Francis of Assisi was riding on horseback down the road that went by a leper hospital situated far from Assisi, for then, as in biblical times, ...

Parable of Christ's Sacrifice

The mother of a nine-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call in the middle of the afternoon. It was the teacher from her son's school.

"Mrs. ...

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 ...