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Dave Ramsey has been helping people get on track financially for many years. His organization has developed the “Financial Peace University” tool which can be used by groups to help people get out of debt and get their financial house in order. Dave has recently initiated a church resource designed

I stumbled upon a website today based at the University of Notre Dame. Christian Smith, a professor and researcher there, received a $5 million grant to conduct research in the area of generosity. The generosity research website may not be too interesting at present given the grant was just given

The following is from a church secretary who, after reading the Giving Ideas page of the website, sent me in some ideas from her own life. When our church went into financial problems the first thing I did was resign as a “paid secretary” and resumed doing the job as

I was searching the internet today for information pertaining to generosity of spirit and came across an article on a blog entitled “Are You Emotionally Generous?” I thought it sounded interesting so I clicked and read it. Though I don’t know the blog or the blogger (Celestine Chua), I did

I just returned home from the Christian Stewardship Association Conference. While I was there listening to many people speak about stewardship and generosity, I got to thinking about what would it take to motivate me to give like the Israelites in Exodus 35 and 36? Finally the craftsmen who were

Sharing stories of generosity isn’t easy. For many of us we aren’t sure if we should even talk about our giving and often aren’t comfortable doing so. But stories are powerful in encouraging others. Generous Giving has developed a document to help us figure out how to tell our stories

Sometimes I think the word “missional” should be a verb. By that I mean for me the essence of living a missional life means to act. It means taking my thoughts and feelings about how God wants me to live and putting them into action. For instance, I know from