Fish this well-stocked pool for books, videos, articles,
web links, stories, sermons, quotations, and much more! Most of these resources are free to copy or download from this
site; some you can send away for, or ask permission from the
publisher to use.
Practicing Our Faith: Household Economics
Good economic practice - positive ways of exchanging goods and services - is about the well-being, the livelihood, of the whole household. In the face of great economic and environmental challenges, the Christian practice of household economics calls on us to manage our private homes for the well-being and livelihood of the small planet home we all share.
Ways to Practice
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Posted: 7/2/2009
Theme: Resources
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Christian Fund Raising Skills
Pastors looking to deepen their skills in Christian fundraising with a stewardship focus are encouraged to take a look at ALDE – The Association of Lutheran Development Executives. Though it's name says "Lutheran," ALDE is open to those of any Christian denomination. ALDE provides inexpensive educational resources, networking opportunities and professional development. ALDE offers conferences and webinars of interest.
Learn more by clicking on ALDE
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Posted: 6/12/2009
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Opportunities to Exercise the Habit of Saving
Nathan Dungan encourages a discipline whereby people share 10%, save 10% and wisely spend 80%.
On his web site,http://sharesavespend.com [Share - Save - Spend] he provides links to various sources that assist people in carrying out this discipline.
Below are links that relate particularly to the discipline of "saving."
A click on any underlined item will bring you to that web site.
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Posted: 5/12/2009
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Habitat's Online Financial Toolkit
Habitat's online financial toolkit/
Want to get a better control on your finances? Check out Habitat's interactive financial toolkit that provides ongoing financial education and resources to Habitat homeowners and the general public. The toolkit includes several helpful topics, such as controlling finances, credit basics, finding a better-paying job and getting an education.
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Posted: 2/24/2009
Theme: Resources
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Spending on Happiness
Spending on Happiness
Money can't buy you love but it can buy happiness—as long as it's money for someone else. New research by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and colleagues Elizabeth W. Dunn and Lara B. Aknin, described in the journal Science, looks into how and why spending money on others promotes happiness. Norton explains more in this Q&A. How much money people earn is less important for their happiness than how they choose to spend it. Although people believe that having money leads to happiness, new research suggests they are happier if at least some of the money is given to others.
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Author: Sarah Jane Gilbert is a Web product manager at Harvard Business School.
Posted: 2/23/2009
Theme: Resources
© COPYRIGHT 2007 PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
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Battle of the Bags
MSNBC presentation on paper & plastic bags -
environmental issue
Click on Battle of the Bags/
This presentation displays the pros and cons of using paper and plastic bags. It discusses the impact that this choice has on the environment. The article continues to talk about the use of reusable bags and reducing the number of plastic or paper bags that a person uses.
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Posted: 2/23/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© MSNBC
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100 Thing Challenge
The 100 Thing Challenge is my little way to personalize my efforts to fight consumerism.
What's behind it? My belief that material possessions can be good when they serve a greater purpose than possession alone. We should make better use of our things than just owning them. My hope is that by living a year with 100 personal things, I'll be able to show that an average American guy does not need tons of stuff to live the good life. And also I hope to shed some light on the nature of consumerism in our culture. Thanks for following along!
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Author: David Michael Bruno
Posted: 2/9/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© David Michael Bruno
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Parish Publishing
About Us/Contact Us
Parish Publishing is a Christian educational publisher that serves thousands of churches across North America to help them communicate better with their parishioners. Our editorial staff of priests and ministers have collectively over 220 years of experience, which ensures the highest quality of editorial content being delivered to our church communities.
Parish Publishing provides extensive stewardship resources.
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Posted: 11/26/2008
Theme: Resources
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Select Multimedia Resources: Lutheran Voices for Leadership Formation.
Select is a program of continuing theological education designed for small groups. These resources are intended specifically for clergy, Deaconesses, Diaconal Ministers, Associates in Ministry and for laity. Select is a program of the Division for Vocation and Education of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), working in cooperation with Lutheran seminaries. However, most of the courses offered are appropriate for use by persons of all denominations.
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Author: SELECT Multimedia Resources
Posted: 11/20/2008
Theme: Resources
© SELECT Multimedia Resources
1175 Winston Street
St. Paul, MN 55108
651.204.0484
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Sermons by Martin Luther
This site contains sermons of Martin Luther from The Sermons of Martin Luther, published by Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 1983.
This 8 volume set was itself a reprint of John Nicholas Lenker translation of Luther's Church Postil. Lenker's edition originally appeared in 1905 - as "The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther," volumes 1-14, published by Lutherans in all Lands.
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Author: These sermons were scanned and edited by The Rev. Dr. Richard Bucher and are in the public domain.
Posted: 10/27/2008
Theme: Resources
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Opportunities to Exercize the Habit of Sharing
Nathan Dungan encourages a discipline whereby people share 10%, save 10% and wisely spend 80%.
On his web site,http://sharesavespend.com [Share - Save - Spend] he provides links to various sources that assist people in carrying out this discipline.
Below are links that relate particularly to the discipline of "sharing." These are examples. Included is a link to the Evangelical Lutheran Church gift catalog. Check out ones associated with your faith community.
A click on any underlined item will bring you to that web site.
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Posted: 8/12/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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The Liturgy of Abundance; the Myth of Scarcity
Walter Brueggemann's insights into the biblical story create an opportunity for a major shift in the way stewardship is approached. This article will inspire the reader. It deserves to be shared, read, studied and preached.
We live under the myth of scarcity. The truth is, God abundantly blesses all creation.
"The creation is infused with the Creator's generosity, and we can find practices, procedures and institutions that allow that generosity to work. Like the rich young man in Mark 10, we all have many possessions. Sharing our abundance may, as Jesus says, be impossible for mortals, but nothing is impossible for God." -- Walter Bruggemann
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Author: Walter Brueggemann is professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga.
Posted: 8/8/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© This article appeared in the Christian Century, March 24-31, l999. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission.
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Lutherans Online
Sponsored by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Lutherans Online offers a wealth of information and many opportunities in one centralized location. Build a free Web site or Web blog, send an e-card, post a classified ad or connect with Lutherans from across America!
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Author: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Posted: 8/8/2008
Theme: Resources
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The National Catholic Conference For Total Stewardship
The CHRISTIAN CELEBRATION OF LIFE (CCL) is a phrase coined by the National Catholic Conference for Total Stewardship in 1985. It synthesizes the rich body of teachings of Jesus in the Bible and in the Church. Combined into a unique formation process, called the CHRISTIAN CELEBRATION OF LIFE, the teachings provide spiritual development of God's People for evangelization in parishes, local churches and the world. The process fulfills exactly what John Paul II calls for in his apostolic exhortation, Christifideles Laici, the "Lay Faithful of Christ."
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Posted: 8/8/2008
Theme: Resources
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Simple Living
This site contains a digest of writings from a number of sources having to do with responsible consumption and living lives with more than our own appetites in mind.
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Posted: 8/8/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Avoiding a Plastic Christmas
Credit card debt detracts from the joy of the season.
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Author: Linda Southwick is the author of Give Credit Where Credit is Due: A Consumer's Guide to Surviving Credit.
Posted: 7/28/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© ©1996 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part is prohibited without written permission from the publishers: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers, 426 S. Fifth Street, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. (800) 426-0115
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Money Matters
Teach your children about Christian spending, saving and sharing.
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Author: Nathan Dungan and Bill Bixby
Posted: 7/28/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© ©1999 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part is prohibited without written permission from the publishers: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers, 426 S. Fifth Street, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. 1-800-426-0115
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Symptoms of Affluenza
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Author: Jessie O'Neill
Posted: 7/28/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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About Affluenza: Its Symptoms, its Cures
There is a plethora of quotes, resources and passion found at this site.
"It is my personal and professional mission to help individuals and organizations create emotional literacy around financial matters -- their own and anyone whose financial lives they touch; in short, to cure affluenza."
–- Jessie O'Neill
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Author: Jessie O'Neill is founder and director of The Affluenza Project and is a licensed therapist who specializes in the psychology of wealth and how it affects both our personal and professional lives.
Posted: 7/28/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Why the Devil Takes Plastic
Affluenza
The character we hope for as Christians puts us at odds with the consumeristic way of life.
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Author: Rodney Clapp is the author of The Consuming Passion: Christianity and the Consumer Culture (1998), Intervarsity Press.
Posted: 7/25/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© ©1999 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part is prohibited without written permission from the publishers: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers, 426 S. Fifth Street, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. 800-426-0115
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Farming and the Environment: Small Farmers Meet an Agricultural Giant
"These can be discouraging days for farmers," says Steve Hanson's pastor, Don Swenson. While the rest of the economy is booming, many farmers in the congregations Swenson serves --Beavercreek and Trinity Lutheran, Sharon, N.D. -- struggle with low crop prices, yet they pay more for fertilizer and fuel needed to produce that crop.
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Author: Eric Hulstrand and Elizabeth Hunter
Hulstrand is pastor of a six-point rural parish in Portland, N.D.
Hunter is a section editor of Church & World.
Posted: 7/21/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© ©2000 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part is prohibited without written permission from the publishers: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers, 426 S. Fifth Street, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. (800) 426-0115
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The Episcopal Network for Stewardship Resources
Resources:
- Theology and practice of stewardship
- Resources for work with children
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Posted: 7/21/2008
Theme: Resources
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Stewardlife
StewardLife is a site dedicated to a non-monetary approach to living the life of a Christian steward. This site will explore: unknown biblical principles of life management, living life with an awareness of God's grace-gifts, a daily relationship with God and his people, making God's presence real through simple perception exercises. StewardLife will change weekly. Week-by-week the stories, metaphors and exercises will guide you into a new perception of how God blesses you and how those blessings are put to work in your life.
This site is maintained through the Board for Congregational Services, Department of Stewardship Ministry of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod.
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Posted: 7/21/2008
Theme: Resources
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Giving Basket
The "Giving Basket" provides an opportunity to make online donations to support Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ministries.
The site provides instruction on how to use the Giving Basket, a list of ELCA ministries accepting contributions, information on giving stock, and links to other giving areas.
The links include Disaster Response, Missionary Sponsorship, World Hunger, Mission Partners, etc.
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Posted: 7/21/2008
Theme: Resources
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Pious Materialism: How Americans View Faith and Money
This is a link to an article summarizes conclusions from a three-year research project on Religion and Economic values. The results contain insights into our deepest obsession- money.
The fundamental question is: "Why do churches remain reluctant to engage money and faith matters more directly?"
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Author: Robert Wuthnow/b> is a sociologist at Princeton University, where he is the Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for the Study of Religion.
Posted: 7/12/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Ecumenical Stewardship Center
The Ecumenical Stewardship Center is an international organization funded by Christian denominations, churches, related organizations and individuals to promote Christian stewardship in its many forms.
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Posted: 7/11/2008
Theme: Resources
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How much should we ask people to give?
This article is the question: "How do we decide how much to ask for?
Determining the right "ask" is critical: you don't want it to be so high that it seems frivolous, but it needs to be high enough to fulfil your vision and encourage your members to grow in their giving.
There is a little math involved in finding an "ask" that satisfies these two constraints. My purpose is to offer some simple tools to come up with an "ask" for your congregation."
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Author: Dan Hotchkiss
Posted: 7/9/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
© Dan Hotchkiss
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Stewardship of LIfe Institute
The Stewardship of Life Institute, founded in 1994, is headquartered at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Pa. The Institute's mission is to serve stewardship in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America through its seminaries.
The Institute carries on the vision and work of its founder and benefactor, the late Arthur L. Larson, who died in 2000.
The executive director of the Stewardship of Life Institute is the Rev. Dr. William Avery, who is also the Arthur L. Larson Professor of Stewardship and Parish Ministry at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.
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Posted: 6/28/2008
Theme: Resources
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Stewardship Resources
Stewardship is one of the church's central tasks. The goal of this Web site is to help you succeed in your stewardship initiative.
These pages provide you with the most current and relevant resources and ideas to support your daily effort.
Here you will find straightforward answers, honest discussions and up-to-date information on ELCA stewardship activities. Use this site to connect to other ELCA stewardship workers. Explore intriguing possibilities for your personal and professional life
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Author: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Resources
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Give: Living Faith in Daily Life
(A small group Bible Study on Giving)
CONTENTS
Session 1: Starts With Receiving
Session 2: Not Counting the Cost
Session 3: The Great Struggle Between Generosity and Greed
Session 4: The Spiritual Power of Generosity
This study will work best in a small group of five to 12 people. Such a group can focus on the Scripture texts and on sharing their own personal experiences. While the content of these sessions is important, the pro¬cess of telling one's own "giving stories" and encourag¬ing one another is at least as important.
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Author: Michael Meier, Coordinator for Mission Support for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
© Copyright © 2004 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, (ELCA), 8765 W. Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60631.800/638-3522. Permission is granted to photocopy this resource provided copies are for local use only and each copy carries all copyright acknowledgments found in the publication.
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Take Back Your Time
Take Back Your Time is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.
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Author: The Living Simple Network
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Resources
© The Living Simple Network
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Resources for Cultivating Stewardship Communities
The Center for Parish Development is an ecumenical, missional, research, consulting, and teaching agency founded by a consortium of mission agencies, theological seminaries, and regional church bodies.
The mission of the Center is to discover how the church in general and the local church in particular can learn to discern and participate in God's mission more faithfully and effectively, and to provide counsel and resources to facilitate that transformational process.
The Center carries out this mission by forming dynamic learning partnerships in which the church's life and mission are brought into conversation with theological and organizational systems research, and by sharing with others what we learn in these partnerships.
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Author: The Center for Parish Development
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Resources
© ©1999 Center for Parish Development, All Rights Reserved
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Toys, Toys and More Toys . . . or Something Else for Christmas?
Christmas gift alternative
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Author: Dan Carlson
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Tithe Calculator
If you'd like some assistance in calculating proportional giving, here are two valuable tools. Either or both may be helpful in considering the financial commitment you believe is appropriate.
The first calculates percentages of your total income, making it easy to figure how much to contribute on a regular basis
The second makes it possible to determine what proportion/percentage of total income you are currently contributing through the church.
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Author: Calculator provided by Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church in Crystal Lake, Illinois
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Offertory Prayers
Prayers to be used during the offertory each week.
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Author: These prayers were developed by Herb Mather,
director of the Center for Stewardship Resourcing, General Board of Discipleship of the Methodist Church.
Herb Mather,
Posted: 6/23/2008
Theme: Resources
© © 2002 The United Methodist General Board of Discipleship, P. O. Box 340003, Nashville TN 37203-0003; telephone: 615-340-7077
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Ministry of Money: Exploring Money and Spirituality
Ministry of Money is a loving, prophetic Christian ministry which encourages all persons to become free from their attachment to cultural values regarding money and to live out joyfully God's call for their lives and resources.
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Author: Ministry of Money
Posted: 6/23/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Ministry of Money, 11315 Neelsville Church Road, Germantown, MD 20876
Voice: 301.428.9560
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Presbyterian Church USA
Official stewardship site for the Presbyterian Church USA. It contains resources, clip art, success stories.
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Author: Presbyterian Church USA
Posted: 6/23/2008
Theme: Resources
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Investing in Your Future and the Future of the Church
Investment opportunities through the ELCA
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Author: Dan Carlson
Posted: 6/17/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Visions of Giving
Visions of Giving invites you to explore some questions about traditions of giving in America.
In our study of American visions of giving, we have noticed three questions that have persisted over the last two centuries. These questions, in turn, have prompted us to add our own questions.
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Author:
Posted: 5/24/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
The Fellowship of Orthodox Stewards (FOS) is a Fellowship of Prayer.
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Author:
Posted: 2/22/2008
Theme: Resources
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Daily Prayer and Prayer Resources on the Internet
OREMUS is dedicated to being a comprehensive place of prayer on the Internet.
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Author: Steve Benner and Simon Kershaw, Compilers
Posted: 2/22/2008
Theme: Resources
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The United Church of Canada Stewardship Services
Stewardship is... Showing our thankfulness to God by sharing and caring for others in response to God's love for us.
Stewardship Commitment Programs: An overview of the key types.
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Posted: 2/22/2008
Theme: Resources
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The Call to Dispossession (Matthew 19:16-22)
Purdy begins the essay by writing: "Jesus holds a first mortgage on all that you and I possess. We own it and we have the use of it, just as we possess and inhabit houses on which the bank or savings and loan holds a first mortgage. But at any moment Jesus may call us to dispose of our possessions in order to benefit some person or cause that needs our support. Just as the bank may choose to foreclose, so Jesus has a claim on all we possess. To be called to be a disciple of Jesus is to acknowledge this claim on our money, houses, barns, lands, silver, clothes, cars, stocks, jewels, antiques, and collectibles. Such is the teaching of Jesus' encounter with the rich young man. Let us examine the story in some detail."
How, when or does Jesus call us to dispossess all we have?
The full message is available in a click.
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Author: John C. Purdy is a retired minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), which he served for 26 years as an editor of curriculum resource and an author.
Posted: 2/22/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© Religion On Line
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Vital Water Graphics: An Overview of the World's Fresh and Marine Water Resources
Vital Water Graphics focuses on the critical issues of water quantity, quality and availability.
The stewardship of water is a huge challenge for the future of the world. It is the resource which most threatens the well-being of life. The United Nations is focusing on this issue.
This is a site which has a lot of information. It can serve as a resource for a stewardship of water emphasis.
(The site may load slowly--you will need to be patient.)
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Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Posted: 2/22/2008
Theme: Resources
© United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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Generosity Index 2003
Click on: Catalogue of Philanthropy to see the Generosity Index 2003.
This site reveals how generous your state is compared to other states, you will find this interesting.
Submitted by -
Rev. Heather Eeman Hammond
h.hammond@mpls-synod.org
Bishop's Associate
Minneapolis Area Synod, ELCA
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Author: Catalogue of Philanthropy
Posted: 2/22/2008
Theme: Resources
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Stories To Tell & Gifts To Share
Ask people what God is doing in their lives and you're likely to get many stories about what God has done for, with and through them. Augsburg Fortress has introduced a new stewardship series called "Stories To Tell & Gifts To Share," which is designed to guide people to "a deeper understanding of God's story as they tell their own faith stories, and respond to God's blessings by sharing God's gifts with the world," according to Augsburg.
Read Jerry Hoffman's review of the series below.
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Author: Mark Allan Powell, professor of New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Keith Mundy from ELCA Outreach and Congregational Ministry Unit and Ted Schroeder, former church-wide staff and pastor.
Posted: 2/15/2008
Theme: Resources
© Augsburg Fortress
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Speaking of Faith: Money/Moral Balance
Click on the link above to hear Nathan Dungan, president and founder of Share-Save-Spend™, on National Public Radio's "Speaking of Faith" discussing money and moral balance. Below are links to other related resources.
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Posted: 2/20/2007
Theme: Resources
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Opportunities to Exercize the Habit of Wise Spending
Nathan Dungan encourages a discipline whereby people share 10%, save 10% and wisely spend 80%.
On his web site,http://sharesavespend.com [Share - Save - Spend] he provides links to various sources that assist people in carrying out this discipline.
Below are links that relate particularly to the discipline of "wise spending."
A click on any underlined item will bring you to that web site.
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Posted: 1/15/2007
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Pericope Partners Vignettes
Pericope Partners vignettes connect the ministries of the ELCA with weekly lectionary readings.
These stories are intended for those who are preparing sermons or for insertion in Sunday bulletins or newsletters.
By sharing these stories, you lift up the ministries that are supported by your congregation's mission support dollars.
Click on Pericope Partners and download them as PDF files for print distribution.
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Author: ELCA
Posted: 1/10/2007
Theme: Resources
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BAPTISMAL INVESTMENT
...A Way for Congregations to Commemorate Baptisms
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Author: Dan Carlson
Posted: 8/4/2006
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Center for Christian Stewardship, General Board of Discipleship, Methodist Church
Mission: To resource congregational stewardship and finance leaders for faith formation and the transformation of the world.
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Author:
Posted: 7/24/2006
Theme: Resources
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The Stewardship Connection
Welcome to The Stewardship Connection, the stewardship website of Dr. Eugene Grimm, Stewardship Specialist for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Author: Dr. Eugene Grimm, Stewardship Specialist for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America f, serving Northeastern Ohio Synod, the Northwestern Ohio Synod and the Southern Ohio Synod
Posted: 2/17/2006
Theme: Resources
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COMMERCIAL ALERT:Protecting Our Children From Commercialism
This is an advocacy site with many insightful and helpful articles.
OUR MISSION
Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.
"Our nation is in the grips of a commercial hysteria. Sometimes it seems like everything is for sale. At Commercial Alert, we stand up for the idea that some things are too important to be for sale. Not our children. Not our health. Not our minds. Not our schools. Not our values. Not the integrity of our governments. Not for sale. Period."
On the site you can sign up for emails whose "Updates give you the latest news and action alerts about commercialism."
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Author: Gary Ruskin is executive director and co-founder of Commercial Alert, and an expert on commercialism in schools, government and culture, and the effects of advertising on children and public health.
Posted: 8/17/2005
Theme: Resources
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In Giving I Connect with Others
On the NPR radio show, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Isabell Allende tells her story which begins like this:
"I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year and I took care of her at home, until she died in my arms in December of 1992...Give, give, give -- what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. It is in giving that I feel the spirit of my daughter inside me, like a soft presence."
To read the total story click on In Giving I Connect with Others
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Author: Isabel Allende was born in Peru and raised in Chile. When her uncle, Chilean President Salvador Allende, was assassinated in 1973, she fled with her husband and children to Venezuela.
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
© To use a transcript of this story contact John Gregory, Project Manager for This I Believe, at john@thisibelieve.org or 502-458-4515.
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Showers of Blessings
"What can we do to motivate members about their response to God's blessings?"
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Author: Stewardship Leaders at Grace Lutheran Church, Eau Claire, WI.
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Resources
© North West Synod of Wisconsin Resource Center
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Saying Thank You == Parish Growth Partners
Parish Growth Partners is rooted in the Roman Catholic tradition. PCP is dedicated to helping pastors and parish leaders create, build and maintain the culture and practice of stewardship.
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Author:
Posted: 12/29/2004
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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THE WISE STEWARD SERIES
Below are a list of various stewardship booklets available from this source.
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Author:
Posted: 12/29/2004
Theme: Resources
© Channing Bete Company
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A 3-D Way of Life (Videotape)
Not For Adults Only
Stewardship is not a matter of giving a little more; rather, it is a way of life.
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Author: U.S. Catholic Bishops
Posted: 6/8/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
© USCCB Publishing
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The Stewardship Page by Ted Mollegen
Stewardship is being in charge of something that belongs to someone else. It implies an accountability to the true owner for what we do with what we are in charge of. Jesus taught in many parables that we are responsible to God for our use of what we are in charge of. He also taught that we owe the owner (i.e. God) a return on what has been assigned to us. Examples of things that we may be in charge of -- perhaps temporarily -- include:
ourselves,
our material resources,
our children,
our portions of business, church, or other organizations, etc.
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Author: Ted Mollegen is a lay stewardship leader in the Episcopal church. This is his own personal web site.
Posted: 11/18/2003
Theme: Resources
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4-Step Cure for Affluenza
Psychologist Jessie O'Neill suggests a four-step cure for affluenza.
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Author: Lyn Jerde Jerde, a free-lance religion writer living in Madison, Wis., writes a weekly faith and values column for the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa.
Posted: 5/4/2002
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© ©1999 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Duplication in whole or in part is prohibited without written permission from the publishers: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers, 426 S. Fifth Street, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. (800) 426-0115
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