A little girl once wrote a letter to an advice column in the Newspaper. In it, she tells a story about her uncle and aunt. “My uncle was the tightest man I ever met.” She said. “All his life, every ti...
Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-17, Luke 19:45-47
The purpose of that empire, like every empire, whether Babylon among the Jews, Rome in the time of Jesus, or the US empire . . . is to coercively extract wealth for the sake of the center. Zacchaeus s...
2 Corinthians 9:6-7, Luke 12:33-34, 1 Timothy 6:17-19, Proverbs 3:9-10, Malachi 3:10, Hebrews 13:16, 2 Corinthians 8:12-14, Matthew 25:35-36, 40, Luke 6:38
In 2021, Americans gave an impressive $326.87 billion to charity. But when that’s weighed against Americans’ 2021 income of $23.617 trillion, that works out to just 1.4 percent of our earnings.
Gracious God, you are the giver of every good and perfect gift. You give us our talents, our freedom, and our financial resources. We struggle to give back to you from these gifts. We often worry that...