Showing posts with label Money Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money Quotes. Show all posts

Monday, December 03, 2012

Blogs I Read: Randy Alcorn's Eternal Perspectives Blog

Randy Alcorn is winsome and gracious yet calls it like it is.

Randy posts about the subjects that are near and dear to him: eternity, heaven, money, possessions, eternal perspectives, life of the unborn, etc. These are the things he's talked about in his 40 books over many years.

A recent post of his caught my eye. In You Can't Take It With You, he quotes from an article titled "7 Million Dollars in Gold Found in Dead Nevada Man's Home," and says, "Think of how the treasure could have been used to make a short-term and long-term difference in people’s lives."

I don't always like reading Randy Alcorn's blog. Sometimes he steps on my toes. But those are the times I need it most.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Best Resources for a Biblical/Practical Theology of Money

Here are the books, articles, and recordings that I profited the most from for our recent series of sermons on money: In God We Trust--What the Bible Says About Money.

Craig Blomberg

Book: Neither Poverty Nor Riches

The best biblical/theological treatment of the topic, running through the Scriptures with a keen eye from Genesis to Revelation.

Audio: Craig Blomberg Giving a Summary of the Book

Brian Rosner

Book: Beyond Greed

A study of the New Testament texts about greed. Very practical, helpful, insightful.

Wayne Grudem

Book: Business to the Glory of God

I never thought about this until I picked up this slender volume in a book store. Excellent beginning study of how business is GOOD and glorifies God (when done His way).

Audio: Recording of Grudem on Business

Jay Richards

Book: Money, Greed, and God

The subtitle: "How Capitalism is the Answer and Not the Problem." This one is controversial, but it is a good introduction into Christian Capitalism (not necessarily an oxymoron).

Audio: Jay Richards Summarizing Some of the "Myths" In His Book

Larry Burkett

Book: The Complete Financial Guide for Young Couples

I got this one from my mother-in-law, and I'm so thankful for it! It's required reading for pre-marital counseling at our church.

Patrick Morley

Book: How to Survive the Economic Meltdown

We gave this to every Dad in our church on Father's Day. Morley (of The Man in the Mirror) is giving away free pdf's of it on his website.

Randy Alcorn

Alcorn has been cranking out great resources on money for years.

Book: The Treasure Principle

A Jabez sized book about giving.

Book: Money, Possessions, and Eternity

A longer book length study. Gets into things that I couldn't in the series. I don't always agree with Alcorn, but I love reading him.

Andreas Kostenberger and David Croteau

Article: To Tithe or Not to Tithe

Short article (condensed fruit of the other two).

Article: "Will a Man Rob God? A Study of Tithing in the Old and New Testaments"

This article puts to rest the idea of NT tithing. Very helpful, easy to read, recommended.

Article: "Reconstructing a Biblical Model of Giving"

If we aren't to tithe, what do we do? This article suggests a theology of giving.

Mike Bullmore

Audio: "What We Should Do with Our Money?" (1 Corinthians 16)

Great sermon on giving from 1 Corinthians 16.

D.A. Carson

Article: "Are Christians Required to Tithe?"

Paul Mills

Fascinating person. Works for the IMF. Christian. Economist. Doesn't believe that the Lord wants us to lend at interest. Predicted the current financial meltdown. Very interesting.

Audio: "The Financial Meltdown: A Spiritual Diagnosis", (Q&A Session) (.pdf of slides)

Economic Papers by Dr. Mills and Others at the Jubilee Center

Interest in Interest - Fascinating Study of the History of "Interest" in Church History and an argument for non-interest loans. Ultimately, I was unpersuaded, but I also ask myself, "Who am I do disagree with this expert?"

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Byron Harvey on Romans 13

I'm in Romans 13 right now for tomorrow's sermon. Here are a triangle of messages from Byron that get to the heart of the matter:

What We Owe Mr. Obama

The Unpayable Debt

Wearing Jesus


The Only Safe Rule Is To Give More Than We Can Spare

“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. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusement, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our giving does not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say it is too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our commitment to giving excludes them.”

C.S. Lewis

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Throwing Money

"Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart."

-John Wesley

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Our Whole Lives Drift Relentlessly Toward the Spot Where Our Treasures Are Stored

"We think about our treasures, we are drawn toward our treasures, we fret about our treasures, we measure other things (and other people) by our treasures. This is so painfully true that a person who honestly examines himself can pretty well discover what his real treasures are, simply by studying his deepest desires...

[W]tend to move toward the object on which we fix our gaze. In the same way, our whole lives drift relentlessly toward the spot where our treasures are stored, because our hearts will take us there. To follow Jesus faithfully entails therefore a consistent development of our deepest loves, to train ourselves to adopt an unswerving loyalty to kingdom values and to delight in all that God approves."

D.A. Carson on Matthew 6:21 [The Sermon on the Mount, An Evangelical Exposition of Matthew 5-7, pg. 78]


True and Abiding Riches

"Jesus bids His disciples therefore never to regard earthly possessions as treasure, much less as permanent treasure to be held on to at all costs. On the contrary, he implies, they should make it their aim to use their material wealth wisely and generously, for by such wisdom and generosity they may well be adding to their true and abiding spiritual riches."

R.V.G. Tasker on Matthew 6:21

Quotes on Money

As our new sermon series begins tomorrow, I will also begin posting quotes that I find stimulating (and may not have room for in the messages).