Should there come a day when all your stuff is gone, will you know who you are, or more importantly, whose you are… When Christie and I got married I moved into her apartment on College Drive in Baton Rouge. As a newlywed couple we were basically holding hands while moving boxes to our… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Stewardship
Letting Go of Mammon
Money is a funny thing. At times it’s empowering, and other times it makes you feel worthless. It either jingles in your pocket or is folded in your wallet or for many of us it is numbers on a digital screen. Some say it makes the world go round. Others say loving it is the… Read more »
How Much is Enough?
How much is enough? The author of Proverbs 30 offers interesting reflection–“Two things I ask of you; do not deny them to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need, or I shall be full, and deny you,… Read more »
Cultivating a Love of God
What does it mean to be rich? Does making six figures mean you are rich? Maybe owning lots of land makes you rich? Maybe “rich” means having enough so that you don’t ever worry about having enough. Maybe your understanding of being rich is something unattainable, like being Batman rich or Scrooge McDuck rich. McDuck… Read more »
Longing for Enough Part 1
Click here to listen: Light—the separation of waters—dry land—sun and moon and stars—fish, birds, animals, humanity–God looked upon creation and said it was good. It was very good. This seems to be the understatement of the whole of history. Shouldn’t have God said that it was perfect? But God did not. God said that it… Read more »
What is Good?
God looked upon creation and saw that it was good. For “good” to be a part of existence from the very beginning, we seem to still have a difficult time defining what “good” is. There are several different ways we discern if something is good or not. First, and in no particular order, we define… Read more »
What if it’s a really small camel?
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God,” Jesus says. The disciples are astonished. We have a problem here, but it isn’t without a solution. If the goal is for a camel to go through the eye… Read more »
What if it's a really small camel?
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God,” Jesus says. The disciples are astonished. We have a problem here, but it isn’t without a solution. If the goal is for a camel to go through the eye… Read more »
Defined by Generosity
One Sunday morning a preacher stood up behind the pulpit and read Psalm 24:1-2–“The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.” He began to preach to the crowd that all… Read more »
Who’s Wasting What? Luke 15:11-32
One Saturday morning during my second year in seminary I sat down at the computer to check our bank balance. When I logged into the account I saw that the numbers of the checking account were red. In my naiveté I thought the website had made some artistic changes to the web layout. I thought,… Read more »