FAITH IN ACTION

November 9, 2023 | Creation Care, Development, Faithful Steward, Leadership, Stewardship

November 9, 2023 THE POWER OF PUTTING FAITH IN ACTION A few years ago, I was blessed by the opportunity to get to know a man of great faith, Jerry Bridges.  Jerry wrote several books for the Navigators including, The Pursuit of Holiness, which sold more than 1 million copies.  As...

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DO YOU HAVE A CALL TO ACTION?

October 12, 2023 | Creation Care, Development, Faithful Steward, Leadership, Stewardship

October 12, 2023 I was immediately intrigued by the title and focus of this book, A Call to Action. It is accurate in its assessment of the culture and challenging in its assessment of the need. Dr. Scott Rodin articulately declared this need for action in the preface by stating: “As our...

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How God Shapes A Leader

October 5, 2023 | Development, Faithful Steward, Leadership, Stewardship

October 5, 2023 God Shapes Us In The Valleys Of Life A few years ago, I remember one particular Bible study meeting when we were discussing the valleys of life and what shapes us.  An older gentleman in his mid-eighties who rarely said anything spoke up and said that when...

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Can God Find Us in the Midst of a Pandemic?

April 28, 2020 | Development, Devotional, Faithful Steward

As we navigate these strange and troubling days, what does God require of us? How should we be responding? What should we be doing?

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Two Ways Your Work Is Transformed into Worship

May 7, 2019 | Development, Devotional, Lifestyle, Steward Leader

We were created for work, and when we do it for God’s glory, our work is an act of worship. God loves to bless the work of our hands.

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Do you Love Yourself? Stewardship in Emerging Economies

September 25, 2013 | Development, Devotional, Freedom in Christ, Lifestyle, Love of Money, Obedient and Joyful Giving, Stewardship

By: Barbara Shantz, TWR’s Global Development Liaison: bshantz@twr.org Texts: Matthew 22:35-40; Luke 18: 18-27 When speaking about stewardship in emerging nations, I’m often puzzled to observe local believers who trust that believers from the West have correct biblical answers for most things, including money. Worse yet is the observation that...

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“Be Transformed” – Rethinking an Overused Word

April 6, 2013 | Development, Leadership, Stewardship

One of the most overused and abused words in our modern vocabulary is ‘transformation’. We use it to describe everything from weight loss to the effects of new kitchen cabinets. I fear that by our overuse of it we have robbed it of its radical meaning. To be ‘formed’ means...

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Five Things They Never Told Me About Christian Fundraising

January 2, 2012 | Development

What’s so Christian about the way we do our fundraising?  Is Christian fundraising nothing more than secular fundraising with some Bible verses strewn throughout our appeal letters?  I have been wrestling with these questions over my career wanting to understand what our Christian theology has to do with our fundraising...

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