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“Spiritual Disciplines” are habits of body and mind that allow us to effectively cooperate with God’s Spirit in the process of character transformation.
spiritual disciplines
Wealth:Blessing or a curse?
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity. Ecclesiastes 5:10
The leech has two daughters, “Give,” “Give.” Proverbs 30:15
Wealth:Blessing or a curse?
• Needs• Enjoyment• Others• God’s kingdom
• Greed• Idolatry• Anxiety• Slavery
Wealth:Blessing or a curse?
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt. Ecclesiastes 5:13
simplify
“Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.” Phillips
Brooks
simplify
Unload the Big Rocks
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes
the lender’s slave. Proverbs 22:7
simplifyLeave Room at the Margins
Four things are small on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: The ants are not a strong people,
but they prepare their food in the summer....
Proverbs 30:24–25
simplifyLeave Room at the Margins
When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to
the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy
and the alien. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 23:22
ShareHabitually
On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper....
1 Corinthians 16:2
ShareSacrificially
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C.S. Lewis