There are many different angles from where to preach on generosity. In this sermon outline John Richardson focuses on how Christians should imitate the generosity of God. After all, He is the springboard for generosity. He is our starting placeRead more…
Three Lessons Learned from Generous Giving’s Stewardship Study Notes Project
This paper was originally presented to the leadership of Generous Giving to summarize three lessons that were learned from the Stewardship Study Notes Project.Generous Giving’s Stewardship Study Notes are a passagebypassage thematic commentary covering issues of stewardship and generosity inRead more…
The Money Revolution: Applying Christian principles to handling your money.
This is a presentation outlining the five principles for Christian money management outlined in ‘The Money Revolution’, a brilliant booklet available from www.themoneyrevolution.net. On the website there are sermon notes, notes for small groups and much more. The principles are: EverythingRead more…
Individual Generosity Declaration
A declaration that individuals can sign as their commitment to a life-style of generosity
Assessing the Financial and Spiritual Health of Your Church
Church leaders have to analyze the spiritual and financial health of their church on a regular basis. This article suggests tools to use statistics and subjective data in such an analysis. One such tool is the Generosity Ladder. This eight-point ladderRead more…
Generosity Needs More than a Sermon: Ongoing Teaching is the Key to a Lifestyle Shift
Church leaders who focus on generous giving find that once-a-year pledges or capital campaigns don’t do enough to foster the lifestyle they want to see reproduced in their people. Without practical, focused tools to teach the principles and practices ofRead more…
“Is your mission’s vision bigger than your mission’s budget?
The powerpoint presentation of a webinar on an innovative way to mobilise resources for mission to unreached people groups. The presenters emphasise that: 1) we are “stewards” of God’s assets, 2) managers have a different role than owners and 3)Read more…
Life Stewardship – the six dimensions of giving
Virgil Dugan explains the what, how, where, who, when and why of giving as 6 dimensions of giving in the Bible.
Life Stewardship – be imitators of God
Virgil Dugan challenges Christians to be imitators of God throug life stewardship in this excellent presentation. Some of the points he emphasises are: ► The Dynamic of God is Love… ► Love is Realized in Giving (truth, time, talents, treasure,Read more…
Generous Church videos
Various videos to encourage generosity and giving in churches, including on changing the money conversation in churches.