One of the interesting developments in Christianity in the past 50 years is the many spiritual inventories that are available. In these, the thought has become that some people possess the spiritual gift of giving and some people do not. Where is this biblically based? It comes from the following passage in Romans 12: We [...]
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If your spouse asked you for money, how hard would you work to give him/her what was asked? Would it be part of your focus? Would you truly sacrifice? The same could be asked about a child, parent, sibling. How far then will you go for God, the Creator of the universe? In Mark 12:29-30 [...]
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It’s interesting how far we have gone from the “Undercover adventure” that Heather described to the way we give today. Today we pray for God to bring into our lives people that are in need that we might help them. This past week, Heather was coordinating an activity at church and a girl asked about [...]
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