Generosity has everything to do with your mindset, not your net worth.
04163 – Generosity
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03218 – Attention = Generosity
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
03126 – Led by the Holy Spirit?
The moment we Christians feel justified abandoning love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control for the sake of preserving and enforcing our own power is the moment we find we are being led by something other than the...
02206 – Gratitude-Driven Generosity
It is easy to bow heads around a tableful of food and family this week and voice words of gratitude. It is more faithful — as followers of Jesus — to do so with a renewed commitment to expressing ongoing gratitude through generosity. Gratitude-driven generosity...
01637 – Love: The Soul of Christian Existence
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is...
01486 – Peace is Generosity
Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the result of violent repression. Peace is generosity; it is right and duty.
01472 – Blessed are the Hand-Holders and Truth-Tellers
Our culture insists in looking for things we can measure, signs of a life well lived through metrics like health, strength, and success, but maybe we, too, should start listening for new vital signs; beds surrounded by loved ones, legacies of kindness and generosity,...
01124 – Being Ready to Die Again & Again
And so it comes down to this: the only way to truly overcome our fear of death is to live life in such a way that its meaning cannot be taken away by death. This sounds grandiose, but it is really very simple. It means fighting the impulse to live for ourselves,...
01028 – Correcting Poverty
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
00998 – Sacrificial Gifts Valued More than Large Gifts
Offering whatever you have and whatever you are is enough. Too many people don’t believe that, so they don’t get involved. Because we can’t do what we think would really make a big difference, we don’t offer our own gift—whatever that is. …Jesus taught his disciples...