Leaders and people together are attempting to learn what they can from the examples of other churches engaged in this process elsewhere...
These churches are changing their approaches to worship. The connections between work and worship are explored in the songs they sing, the...
These churches are helping their people discover new ways of nourishing and living out their faith in...
Equipping people is a complex business. Structures can help to facilitate or hinder ministry. What is a help for the first generation...
Most churches have ministries to serve the communities around them, which often are called compassion, outreach or...
Truthtelling builds trust and civil cooperation among human beings. Trust is critical for a prosperous society, and being a person of one’s...
In the biblical narrative God creates everything for his glory and honor (Colossians 1:16, Revelation 4:11). The foundations of finance—like all of...
Stewardship is the fulfillment of God’s mandate to fill the earth, subdue (or govern) it, work it, and care for it (Genesis...
Human beings are created to be social and to live in community, and we have a desire to be with other people. As God put it, “It is not good that the man...
The question of prices raised two questions about finance as a form of love. First, can love be expressed in a market...
Ideally, market-rate finance is a blessing to both borrowers and lenders. This is similar to all kinds of commerce. Producing and selling...
How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several of the foundations of biblical finance come to the fore here. First...
Those who provide resources—lenders and savers—have a responsibility to invest their resources for the common, and not only for their own, gain. This perspective is sometimes called “socially responsible investing.” We will explore...
Some national leaders attain provision or wealth through unjust means such as exploitation, force, corruption, theft and others. Brutal dictators and regimes...
One of the more frequent words translated as “community” or “fellowship” in the New Testament is koinonia. This was a well-used word...
The temptation of those who have much to become isolated from those who have little is very real. High-fenced houses, air-conditioned cars...
In Jeremiah chapter 29, the prophet draws attention to God’s intention that his people's work should bless and serve the communities around...
If the exiled Jews in Babylon missed the positive example in chapter 18, Ezekiel 22 gives them an explicit picture of where...
One of the challenges we face in work is the temptation to put self and family ahead of society. The prophet Haggai...
Our work can be a way of loving others if we work as God would have us do it.
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