What Does Stewardship Entail?
Being a good steward for Christ needs to happen in every area and role in our lives. In each we ought to practice faithful and fruitful stewardship. As a true believer and disciple of Christ Jesus, it is naturally our duty to steward the things entrusted unto our care and influence. Which sometimes means changing […]
On What to Focus
Let’s talk about our spiritual walk for a moment. Because of the ease of our lives and the fact that we grew up in a supposedly Christian society, many American Christians go through life thinking that because Jesus is their Savior, they are going to Heaven when they die and can then check that box […]
Historical Standard Bearers
We’ve been discussing Biblical stewardship. There are many examples of stewardship throughout the Bible. Most of the great figures of the Old Testament were called to steward for God’s purposes. Moses (Hebrews 3:1-6), Joshua, the Judges, and the Kings were all called to steward God’s people Israel. Some did pretty well – some horribly. Daniel […]
Stewardship for His Plan
God’s original plan was to build a beautiful garden and to put mankind in it. We were to control it, manage it, expand it, and multiply ourselves throughout the earth utilizing his bounty – all in perfect harmony with our God. “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and […]
How Are You Handling His Affairs?
We discussed previously the difference between ownership and stewardship and that all followers of Christ are called to be faithful stewards over what we are given. Jesus explained it this way, “He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return. 13So he called […]
Quick – Which Path will You Choose: Hard/Easy or Easy/Hard
There are two roads to walk down in the daily decisions that we make. We are constantly confronted with option of taking the easy way, which requires less of us at that time. Or we can take the more challenging route when confronting the decision ahead. Most people go about life choosing the easy way. […]
Ownership vs Stewardship
To own something is to enjoy sovereignty or dominion over something. In modern terms, to own something is to enjoy full rights over it. I’ve written before that “knowing” something comes from “doing” that thing, not from simply thinking about it. Let’s apply this concept towards ownership of an asset versus stewardship of that asset. […]
What You Already Know to Be True
Riddle me these four questions, if you will: Do financial institutions want all of your money, or only some of it? Do they want more of the money you make in the future? Do they want to give it back a long time from now, or soon? Do they want to give it back all […]
Three Types of People: Savers, Consumers and Producers
For the sake of discussion, let’s say there are three kinds of people in the world: Consumers Savers Producers Laws of the Universe: Consumers consume more value in the world than they produce. Producers produce more value than they’re consuming. This is a continuum. You can never be the ultimate Consumer, and you can always […]
Are You Committed?
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” Matthew 13:44 Are you committed? Jesus tells this parable to show what true commitment is. The most important thing in […]