As Jesus plainly said, “You cannot serve both God and money,” and thus every aspect of our faith, fears, plans, and dreams will be challenged at this basic level.

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

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.

You cannot serve both God and money

want you to keep these three primary leverage points in view. If you maximize all three of them, you will live the best life possible. They are business for mission, family on mission, and counter-culture mission.

If none of us got paid, God would still expect us to lead and serve the world.

Making disciples is easier and cheaper than keeping consumer Christians happy.

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

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.