What Does Jesus Think About Year-end Giving?
As a pastor, some of the best (and most challenging) questions I get from people don’t have chapter-and-verse Bible answers. No one ever...
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Nov 20, 20233 min read
Four Diagnostic Questions for the American Church
Pastor J.D. Greear
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Apr 24, 20233 min read
Jesus’ Revolutionary, Disorienting, Liberating Approach to Money
Recently, I’ve been listening to a series about dictators on a British podcast called Noiser. It’s a fascinating and disturbing deep...
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Apr 17, 20233 min read
Why Justice and Generosity Go Hand in Hand
The first (and only) time we meet Zacchaeus, he’s up a tree, trying to catch a glimpse of Jesus. Zacchaeus couldn’t have known this, but...
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Jun 27, 20223 min read
How Much Do I Have to Give? (And Other Common Giving Questions)
Giving is all over Scripture. Over and over and over again, people respond to God’s generosity toward them by (1) giving a portion of...
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Feb 28, 20222 min read
What Do Sabbath and Generosity Have in Common?
What would your life look like if you knew your future was secure? We see a glimpse of this kind of life in a scene from the book of...
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Jan 31, 20223 min read
Give Your First and Your Best, Not the Rest
In Exodus 13, Israel is coming out of 400 years of captivity, and Moses wants to lay out some foundational principles for them in this...
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Mar 22, 20215 min read
Seven Signs of Money Sickness
In much of the developed world, and particularly in the U.S., greed is part of the air we breathe. Our admirable Protestant work ethic...
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Jul 20, 20207 min read
The Generosity Matrix
There seems to be two extremes when it comes to how Christians view their relationship with their possessions. The first one is that God...
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Jan 22, 20203 min read
What to Do When You Have More Than Enough
During the wilderness journey of the Israelites, God covered the ground every morning with bread from heaven. It was like he spread out...
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Jan 8, 20203 min read
Stop Clinging to Confederate Currency
Imagine you’re a Northerner living in the South doing business toward the end of the Civil War. In your business, you’ve accumulated a...
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Sep 2, 20193 min read
What Is Your Church Willing to Give Up for the King?
Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...
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Jan 28, 20194 min read
Are You a Spender, Saver, or Steward?
Like the Colossians, we typically express a “Jesus and …” mentality by thinking that in order to be happy and secure, we need other...
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Dec 19, 20183 min read
Does Your Giving Say “Leftovers” or “Lord”?
Have you ever been invited to someone’s house and they served you leftovers for dinner? You show up expecting a nice meal and instead sit...
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Nov 7, 20183 min read
A Gift Far Greater Than Money
The other day, I shared a note from one of our staff members about the way our current season of “First” has been impacting him. But this...
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Apr 23, 20188 min read
Cooperating Together for God’s Mission
A lot can be lost in a single generation. Ronald Reagan famously admonished Americans that they had to teach the principles of freedom to...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read
God Can’t Multiply What You Haven’t Sown
In Galatians 6:7, the Apostle Paul highlights what I’ve heard called an “absolute principle” in Scripture: “For whatever a person sows he...
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Feb 2, 20174 min read
Four Fruits of Generous Giving
You remember the story where Jesus takes a little boy’s lunch of five loaves of bread and two fish—his “Levite Lunchable” or “Hebrew Hot...
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Aug 17, 20155 min read
Should I Give to My Local Church First … or to Other Ministries?
Of the many questions that people perennially ask pastors, some of the most uncomfortable ones are about financial giving. Most of the...
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