A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Gem, there is an exception to every rule and we are going to be it. I'm not losing you.

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.