BiVO: A Modern-Day Guide for Bi-Vocational Saints

The goal of our calling isn’t to be bi-vocational, fully paid, or volunteer. The goal of our existence is to learn how to leverage everything God has given us.

The real story of the tithe is that God’s people consolidated their personal giving and only about ten percent was raked off the top for the religious leaders. The rest was distributed to the poor. The tithe and its effects on the world were awesome. It displayed God’s heart for the people and kept a reasonable balance for those who made some porti

If you want to serve God with your life, you cannot serve your own interests, pad your wallets, put away enough to render faith irrelevant, or build your own kingdom. God’s kingdom has, and always will, operate on the principle of manna, not mammon. God will always provide for his people as they do his work his way.

Was Judas a bad guy? Probably not. Just like us. Judas loved Jesus. But like two horses pulling the chariot of the king, one horse runs pure, looking straight ahead and faithfully pulling, while the other horse looks around, gets distracted and allows concerns and anxieties to cloud his vision. When the two horses fought inside Judas, eventually a

You cannot serve both God and money

The church must be viewed as the people of God, not the institution.

Your secular work is the soil in which God plants his sacred kingdom work. Therefore your work is not a hindrance to what God is doing, but instead a significant part of what he is doing.

The gospel is about letting God bring redemption and the way of his crazy kingdom into our frantically dysfunctional patterns of living.

At present, the average Christian gives to the church at the exact percentage non-believers give to charities—just fewer than three percent.