Tag: generosity
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God’s Generosity in Salvation: Reflecting on the Praise of Psalm 119
God’s Law is good. It facilitates blessing in our lives and prosperity, peace, justice, and equality for society. The Law does not exist apart from the promise of salvation for those who love God relationally. The Law tells us about God’s lovingkindness—His forgiveness by grace for those who love Him. The psalmist continues to reflect…
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Generous Servant or High-Maintenance Miser: The Excellent Wife in Proverbs 31
I think Proverbs 31 is too often misunderstood or misappropriated to tell women exactly what they should be if they want to be godly. We know that Solomon is writing to his sons about what he advises them to look for in a potential wife. This isn’t for all women. It concerns excellent wives. Further,…
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Giving- Exodus 25:1-9
God instructs Israel to donate materials to build a tabernacle according to His specifications. He gives His people a list of materials: gold, silver, bronze, blue, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair, rams’ skins dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood, oil, spices, onyx stones, and setting stones.Instead of requiring a tax on the…
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The Christian’s Labor
Last week, we saw the Christian’s reward. God promises to return many times what the Christian gives up for Christ’s name’s sake and give the Christian eternal life. Jesus follows His teaching about rewards with a parable—not about people giving anything up, but about laborers in a vineyard seeking to earn wages. Matthew 20:1-16 For…
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Stop Giving Today
This morning we are talking about money. It’s not because I have to. Last week, our elders looked at the church financial statement. We are in a healthy place. The opportunity I have to talk about money during a season of financial health is great. I don’t have to reprimand the body for not giving…
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Church or Only a Religious Meeting?
There was a local church that was having a very special, special event. It was advertised well and the church spent money to create what they thought was a good event that people would enjoy and that would keep people coming back. Before the event two people, who will be named Ben and Jerry for…
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The Christian Family: a people of giving, not of taking
Together, in our minds, let’s go out to eat. One of my favorite restaurants is Chili’s. So, we walk into Chili’s and we are seated. We basically have the whole restaurant to ourselves. There are plenty of servers cleaning tables and talking with one another and they all saw us come in. After all, we…