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Don’t Give Here

October 31st, 2012 | 16 Comments

Don’t Give Here

  Our church is currently going through a five-week series called All In, which is a financial pledge campaign with emphases in being “all in” with the mission of God financially as well as in all other areas of life.  The previous campaign our church did started in 2009 and ended in 2012 and this current one will last two years.   Giving to our church is something we love doing because we have bought in to the … Read entire article »

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Obligations on Your Side Hustle Money

June 22nd, 2012 | 42 Comments

Obligations on Your Side Hustle Money

Kyle has been volunteering with the production team at our church for about a year, mostly running the slides and handling the video-playing.  One of the men who runs the sound board is taking a sabbatical and they are looking for someone to fill his weekends.  Kyle has wanted to learn how to run a sound board for a while so this is a perfect opportunity.  Plus, we found out that it is a paid … Read entire article »

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Laying a Path from Here to There

June 8th, 2012 | 24 Comments

Laying a Path from Here to There

I’m afraid of drifting through life – of letting time pass without accomplishing anything.  Sometimes I feel like we’re drifting financially while we’re in graduate school because we don’t have several major monetary objectives toward which we are working.  While I think goal-setting has been a bit overblown and doesn’t necessarily work well for everyone, I believe we all need to have a vision for our lives and to take steps to realize those visions.   If … Read entire article »

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Living a Step Behind

February 24th, 2012 | 17 Comments

Living a Step Behind

This week I’m thinking about a great illustration that our pastor used a few years ago in a sermon on putting others before ourselves.  He was helping our church accept that if we chose to live by the Biblical principles of money management, we should expect to see obvious differences in our lifestyles in comparison with our peers at work. By tithing 10% of our income and giving generously above that, we would be one step … Read entire article »

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Why I Tithe

December 7th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Because I didn’t grow up “in the church,” I never really knew about tithing until I joined my first church family while in graduate school.  My decision to tithe was one I made as an adult and I have observed the changes in my character that have occurred concurrently with becoming a cheerful giver.  There is plenty of great content available about why one should tithe and how generosity is a mark of having been … Read entire article »

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