Many years ago, it is said, Chinese farmers decided they would eat the big potatoes and plant the small ones for seed. They learned their mistake eventually, when they found they were harvesting only small potatoes. They learned you cannot keep the best things of life for yourselves and use the leftovers for seed. Planting [...]
Perhaps you have heard the name R.G. LeTourneau, but most likely you are drawing a blank. LeTourneau was the founder of the Caterpillar Cooperation. He personally is credited with nearly 300 inventions including such world changers as the bulldozer, dump bed, electric wheel, rollers, steam shovel, etc. LeTourneau died in 1969 but believers will not [...]
Knowing and understanding the purposes within your own heart will go a long way to helping you to understand why you give, or why you do not give to God as He requires. “Purpose” is why you or I do the things we do. Paul commends believers to determine the “purposes of their hearts” and [...]
Christianity is seemingly one contradiction after another. To the on looking world it is often confusing, but God has told us that His wisdom is “foolishness” to the world at large. We know that we gain by loosing, live by dying, win by surrender, and the list goes on. When it comes to the area [...]
A tithe (10 percent) was/is God’s required minimum, however believers should quickly move beyond that starting place. To put it in Monopoly terms, moving beyond a tithe is moving past “go.” Far too many believers become satisfied with only giving a tithe, instead of experiencing the joys of giving offerings beyond the tithe. Sadly one [...]
The final book in the Old Testament canon, Malachi, is a stinging rebuke of the nation of Israel in several specific areas of “stewardship” or “management.” These rebukes include repudiating God’s love (1:2-5), refusing God the honor due Him (1:6-2:9), rejecting God’s faithfulness (2:10-16), redefining God’s righteousness (2:17-3:5), robbing God’s riches (3:6-12), and reviling God’s [...]
It is quite clear that a double standard exists in America where many issues are concerned. What is good for the goose is not necessarily good for the gander. While the goose has just humped up and taken it, I think the gander has recently filed a law suit!