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How to Live With Just 100 Things
Core Practice: A reflective stance toward consumer culture
"Excess consumption is practically an American religion. But as anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, we're no longer huddled masses yearning to breathe free; we're huddled masses yearning to free up space on a countertop."
Lisa McLaughlin
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Author: Lisa McLaughlin is a Senior Reporter at TIME Magazine.
Posted: 11/2/2009
Theme: Resources
© Time magazine
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Wealth Addictions
"Money was meant to be our servant. But when we depend on servants too much they gradually become our masters, because we have surrendered to them our ability to run our own lives."
-- Philip Slater, Wealth Addictions
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Author: Philip Slater
Posted: 9/29/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Material or Spiritual
Bread for me is a material problem. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual problem.
—Nikolai Berdyaev
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Author: Nikolai Berdyaev
Posted: 9/2/2009
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Sacrifice
God looks for equal sacrifice not equal gifts.
We cannot give what we do not have, but we can share a generous percentage of what we do have.
The best time to begin is today!
The fact is that if we wait to give until we are rich,
we will never give.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 7/23/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Stewardship is . . .
"The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue." - William Avery
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Author: William Avery
Posted: 6/12/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© William Avery
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Stewardship is . . .
"The privilege of using ALL God has entrusted to my care in a Godly way"
- Unknown
"The care and management of all that God has given us our lives, our health, our possessions, our jobs, our money, our children, our talents, our time. And it also includes the care and management of the earth, air, animals and all of God's creation."
-Unknown
"A Spiritual and moral litmus test."
- Unknown
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 6/11/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Stewardship is . . .
"In Baptism I am called to be a steward and am entrusted with the responsibility and opportunity to act on behalf of Jesus in all aspects of my life."
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Author: Jerry Hoffman
Posted: 6/11/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Jerry Hoffman
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Stewardship is . . .
Stewardship is a way of life. It is about "turning total control of our lives over to God."
-Mark Allan Powell
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Author: Mark Allan Powell
Posted: 6/11/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Noblest Charity is to do Justice.
"Charity is a noble virtue, but to make the whole world an almshouse is carrying it to the absurd. The noblest charity is to do justice – not only to procure, at the sacrifice of self, in an unselfish spirit, some improvement in the condition of mankind, but compel tyrants to do justice to the victims they have wronged." Edward McGlynn, a New York Catholic priest 1890's.
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Author: Edward McGlynn, a New York Catholic priest
Posted: 6/11/2009
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Father Edward McGlynn
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Spiritual Impact
"The church has not appreciated the spiritual impact of money on the believer, and so the church has many immature believers."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 5/28/2009
Theme: Resources
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Quotes
A series of quotes
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Author: Albert Schweitzer, a brilliant philospher, musican, theologian and physcian.
Posted: 5/17/2009
Theme: Resources
© Compiled by Peggy Anderson
Great Quotes from Great Leaders
Successories Publishing
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Sabbath Worship
"Most middle class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship."
--Gordon Dahl
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Author: Gordon Dahl
Posted: 12/27/2008
Theme: Resources
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Sabbath Is The Line Break
"The Sabbath is to the week what the line break is to poetic language. It is the silence that forces you to return to what came before to find its meaning. We have to remember to stop because we have to stop to remember."
Judith Schulevitz
--New York Times Magazine, 3/2/2003
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Author: Judith Schulevitz
Posted: 12/27/2008
Theme: Resources
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Giving
People come to life -- become fully alive, aware and joyful -- when they help others.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 12/9/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Generosity Grows Faith
Faith itself grows when we give generously and sacrificially.
I'm the most free when I don't cling too tightly,
but instead live by simple trust,
wisely managing what is entrusted to me
for a relatively brief period of time.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 12/5/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Unknown
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High Cost
"American schoolchildren today are taking four times as many psychiatric meds as all of the rest of the world combined."
-Myrna Weissman
Adbusters, July/August 2001
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Author: Myrna Weissman
Posted: 12/1/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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SAYING THANK YOU - Thank You
"I have asked many pastors, "Pastor has a parishoner ever come to you on any occasion and said, 'Father, you have over-thanked me for my generosity?'
"Never ever has a pastor said they that this has occured."
-Craig Gibson
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Author: Craig Gibson
Posted: 10/27/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Showing Thanks
Stewardship is showing our thankfulness to God by sharing and caring for others in response to God's love for us.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/27/2008
Theme:
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Trust
"Trust does not eliminate the bad things that may happen (in life).... Trust simply finds a new outlet for anxiety and a new grounding for confidence: God. Let God worry about the worrisome details of life, most of which are out of (our) control anyway."
- Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World/
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Author: Philip Yancey
Posted: 10/14/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© Philip Yancey, http://www.rumorsofanotherworld.com/ [Rumors of Another World]Zondervan (September 1, 2003)
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Stewardship
"Stewardship rightly understood is equivalent to a program for putting Christ into all aspects of daily life."
-- Biship Hanns Lilje
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Author: Biship Hanns Lilje
Posted: 9/24/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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The Gift
If I see the gift as mine alone to give,
I might give hesitantly,
even grudgingly, considering my options,
then giving from a sense of ought.
If I see the gift as God's
who allows me to use it for a time,
then the gift can flow more freely,
as I join with others
to be a channel
for God's love and mercy.
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Author: Source Unknown
Posted: 9/24/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Treasure
You become what you love.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Biblical References About Possessions
Jesus spent a great deal of time establishing that our relationship to the material world has strong spiritual implications.
Seventeen of the thirty-eight parables are about possessions. Of the number of various topics mentioned in the Bible:
Believe(ers/ing) appears 272 times.
Prayer appears 372 times.
Love or loving appear 714 times.
Possessions or giving appear 2,172 times.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Commercials
"We live in a culture that is preoccupied with money. We respect people who have it and write whole television series about how they make it and spend it.
"While church members hear one sermon a year on average, they are exposed to about 1600 commercials every day, on billboards and bus stops, in newspapers and magazines, on matchbooks and clothes with designer and product logos, on radio and television, each offering advice on how to spend their money."
-- John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, Behind Stained Glass Windows
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Author: John and Sylvia Ronsvalle
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Obedience
God is not broke. Nor is God's church.
We in the church have been given all the money we need to accomplish God's purposes. The issue is more one of obedience than it is of education. Will we give our money so it can be used as God desires?
-- Blair Anderson
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Author: Pastor Blair Anderson, Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Ramsey, Minn.
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
The more people that give themselves to Christ, the more capacity for giving God is going to give them.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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A Matter of Grace
"God is the owner of everything. Christ is the chief steward and we who are in Christ share this stewardship with him. It is into the prior stewardship of grace that Jesus initiates us. Stewardship is not a matter of law, something we ought to do. It is, rather, of grace: we participate in Christ's gracious stewardship in our ongoing process of identification with Him."
-- Douglas John Hall, from "The Steward: A Biblical Symbol Come of Age"
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Author: Douglas John Hall is professor of Christian Theology in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Resources
© Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Stewardship
"Stewardship encourages people to lead generous lives, strengthens faith, and impacts the world."
-- Michael Durall
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Author: Michael Durall
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Stewardship
Stewardship is not talking the talk but walking the walk.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Stewardship
Stewardship is the giving of ourselves to the world so that we will know the joy of being used by our God.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Source of Life
"New life comes to us on its way to someone else. If we pass it on to others, we blossom and grow; if we keep it to ourselves, we wither and die."
-- Bill Easum, Dancing with Dinosaurs
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Author: Bill Easum
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Way of Life
Stewardship is a way of life nourished and nurtured through worship and prayer. God calls us to live as stewards of every aspect of human life and the natural world. All our material resources, time, energy and talents are to be devoted to joining God in making a world not only of peace but of well-being, health, harmony, equity, unity, freedom and community.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme:
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Source of Life
"New life comes to us on its way to someone else. If we pass it on to others, we blossom and grow; if we keep it to ourselves, we wither and die."
-- Bill Easum, Dancing With Dinosaurs
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Author: Bill Easum
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
"Tithes, offerings, and other forms of systematic giving, which vary over time, must flow from a grateful response to the goodness and grace of God."
-- T. K. Thompson
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Author: T. K. Thompson
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Using Gifts
"Stewardship is growing, developing, advancing and building the gifts with which God has blessed us."
-- Kennon Callahan
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Author: Kennon Callahan
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Lifestyle of Christian Discipleship
When we grow as stewards,
we share the news of the Gospel
in all the settings of work and leisure.
When we grow as stewards,
we share our wealth and possessions
with those persons and agencies
in ministry to people in need.
When we grow as stewards,
we give willingly of our time and abilities
in our private lives and in the public order,
using the gifts God has given us
to assure that all creation is fulfilled.
When we grow as stewards,
we assure that the world will remain a gift
for future generations.
Stewardship is the lifestyle
of Christian discipleship.
-- From the Presbyterian Church of the USA Web Site
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Author: From the Presbyterian Church (USA) Web Site
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© PCUSA
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Stewardship
"Stewardship is everything you do after you say yes to Jesus Christ."
-- Clarence Staughton
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Author: Clarence Staughton
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Proportional Giving
This is a way of giving that begins with the question, "how has God blessed me?" rather than "what does the church need?" Then the decision is made to return a proportion or percentage to God in obedience and gratitude.
-- The Episcopal Network for Stewardship
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Author: The Episcopal Network for Stewardship
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© The Episcopal Network For Stewardship
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Managing Life's Resources
"Stewardship is the free and joyous activity of the Child of God and God's family, the Church, in managing all of life and life's resources for God's purposes."
-- Stewardlife, The Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod.
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Author: Steward Life
Posted: 8/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© Stewardlife
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The Treasure
You Become What You Love
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/8/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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A Steward's Creed
I believe in the gifts of God and feel gratitude for all I have been given.
These gifts are not mine to have, but mine to share.
When they are shared, my gifts will make a difference for others.
And I believe the act of giving is more important than the gift itself.
I will make giving a priority.
I will give to others because so much of what I have comes from others.
I will give of who I am, what I do, and what I have.
To my family, faith, and community, I will give myself.
As Christ gave so much for so many, so I will give to you.
And will be thankful for the opportunity to give.
Used by Permission of the Stewardship Committee of the Basilca of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Author: Stewardship Committee of the Basilca of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, Minn.
Posted: 8/8/2008
Theme: Happenings in Congregations
© Basilica of St. Mary's, Minneapolis, MN
Contact:tgreen@mary.org
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Golden Ghetto
"Anyone -- regardless of their net worth --
who believes that they must be rich, that more is always better,
is a self-condemned prisoner of the 'golden ghetto.'"
-- Jessie H. O'Neill
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Author: Jessie H. O'Neill
Posted: 7/28/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Christianity, If True
The appeal of C.S. Lewis' writings continues to be the way in which he combines reason and imagination. He argued that "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important."
Whether in the realm of reason or imagination, in personal or public life, Lewis maintained, "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen—not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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Author: Clive Staples "C.S." Lewis was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland (see chronology). He died on November 22, 1963, the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Posted: 7/12/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Autobiography
Autobiogrpahy
If you should ask me,
"Who are you right now?
Where are you?
What road have you taken?
What have you become?"
I needn't give you fifty pages,
or even five, or one.
My check stubs are enough.
--Gerhard E. Frost, Seasons of a Lifetime Augsburg Fortress, 1989
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Author: Gerhard E. Frost was an author, speaker, Bible Teacher and seminary professor.
Posted: 7/11/2008
Theme: Resources
© Augsburg Fortress Publisher
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On Time
'Tis not for man to trifle!
Life is brief, and sin is here.
Our age is but the falling of a leaf,
a dropping tear.
We have no time to sport away the hours.
All must be in earnest in a world like ours.
Not many lives,
but only one have we;
one, only one!
How sacred should that one life ever be,
that narrow span!"
- Horatio Bonar
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Author: Horatio Bonar
Posted: 7/9/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Generosity
"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." —Simone De Beauvoir
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Author: Simone De Beauvoir
Posted: 7/9/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Cost
"I've learned that some money costs too much."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 7/9/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Make A Difference
If you don't think you can make a difference, just think what one mosquito makes when it is with you in bed.
- Unknown
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 7/2/2008
Theme: Resources
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Quotes from Mother Teresa
Reflections that encompass compassion, love, spirituality and stewardship.
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Author: Mother Teresa
Posted: 6/30/2008
Theme: Resources
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Money Is Not The Issue
Money is not the issue. Encountering the God of the open hand is the issue. Understanding that our lives are on loan from God to be invested for God's purposes is the issue. Desiring to be a faithful steward with all we've received is the issue. The spiritual wisdom of first giving ourselves to the Lord is the issue. Sorting out to whom we ultimately belong is the issue. Once we get all this straightened out, there will more than enough money to do the work of Christ.
- Bruce Sanguin
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Author: Rev. Bruce SANGUIN is pastor at Canadian Memorial Church, Vancouver, B.C.
Posted: 6/28/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Getting to Gratitude
Getting to gratitude requires time in a time-sick culture. Busyness is the mortal enemy of gratitude. It takes time to notice our life, this planet, our loved ones as gift. It takes time to allow the beauty of a fall rose to take us to our knees. Gratitude is born of a child-like fascination with the world.
From Sermon, "Getting to Gratitude"
by Bruce Sanguin
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Author: Rev. Bruce Sanguin is pastor at Canadian Memorial Church, Vancouver, B.C.
Posted: 6/28/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© Rev. Bruce Sanguin
1825 W. 16th Ave Vancouver, BC V6J 2M3
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Spiritual Values
Tony Blair professes that faith is what gives meaning to the lives of billions, and he passionately believes that the world would be a better place if people of faith harnessed their talents together in aid of the common good. He stated: "Without spiritual values, there is an emptiness that cannot be filled by material goods and wealth."
From Time, June 9, 2008, "Tony Blair
Leap of Faith," by Michael Elliott, p. 36.
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Author: Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007.
Posted: 6/28/2008
Theme: Resources
© Time, June 9, 2008
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Grace
"There is nothing you can do to make God love you more.
There is nothing you can do to make God love you less."
--Philip Yancey, "What's So Amazing About Grace"
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Author: Philip Yancey
Posted: 6/24/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Philip Yancey
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A Pledge Declares
...We believe in the work of Christ's church.
...We believe our gifts can make a difference.
...Our commitment to our congregation and to the people with whom we work and worship
...You can count on our support through our prayers, our time and our financial resources.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 6/23/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Pledge
"A pledge made and kept, as best and much as we are able, is our way of living in the economy of abundance and locating the footprints of faith. Our participation matters -- it matters not just to St. Mark's church, but to something greater. When we write a check or making a stock transfer we're making an investment in the household of God. We're placing our money and our lives on the line for a dream. We saying that we believe that the dream, the dream of God, can, must, shall come true. Amen."
In sermon "Money Matters," by The Reverend Dr. Stephanie J. Nagley
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Author: Reverend Dr. Stephanie J. Nagley
Posted: 6/17/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
"We have experienced this "most generous God" and have found The More One Gives, the More One Gives. We say that deliberately. The more one gives, the more one gives. As Paul told the Corinthians, "You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving through us."
--Pastor Roy & Dorothy Satre at the 2005 Luther Seminary celebration of the Partner and Heritage Society participants.
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Author: Rev. Roy & Dorothy Satre are retired and live in Rochester, MN.
Posted: 6/17/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Roy & Dorothy Satre
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Stewardship
Stewardship is receiving God's gifts and responding to those gifts by returning one's time, talent, and treasure to the service of God in this congregation.
--Patrick McNamara
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Author: Patrick McNamara
Posted: 4/21/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Enough Talk
"Enough talking already. Don't invite me to another 'conference.'
If you have the means, then put it to good use helping others. (The needs of the world could be met) if everybody who could, did...don't waste time talking about it...
do it."
--Opah Winfrey
Regarding Africa Project
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Author: Opah Winfrey
Posted: 4/3/2008
Theme: Resources
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Truth
Mayday Christians are those who give on the spot as they happen to be moved or too embarrassed to refuse - and come to regard the giving of ten dollars as practically equivalent to paying off the national debt.
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Author: Halford Luccock
Posted: 3/20/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Sabbath
"The one day in seven dedicated to rest by divine command, has become the holiday Americans are most likely never to take."
Judith Schulevitz
--New York Times Magazine, 3/2/2003
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Author: Judith Schulevitz
Posted: 3/13/2008
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Gratitude
Gratitude has the power to transform your outlook and open your eyes to life's fullness. It can transform a trinket into a treasure, a meal into a feast, a deficit into a gain."
--Louise Rousseau, "Living With An Open Hand"
2003
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Author: Louise Rousseau
Posted: 3/4/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Measure Revenue By What You Give
"Christians should have a special way of managing their finances. The world calculates its income, but we Christians should measure revenue by outgoing. A meager income often follows inadequate giving. Proper giving almost guarantees a sufficient supply from God. If you do not give, then the Lord is under no obligation to give to you. Many have faith to ask God for money, but lack faith to give it away. When God gives, he always gives bountifully. He gives not only good measure, but pressed down, shaken together, and running over."
--Watchman Nee
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Author: Watchman Nee, Was an Evangelist and a House Church Leader in China
Posted: 3/4/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Make Peace With Money
"Like fire, money itself is neither good nor evil. It is neutral, its character determined by the eye of the perceiver, the hand of the user." ~Jerrold Mundis, Making Peace With Money
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Author: Jerrold Mundis
Posted: 3/4/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Time and Money
"Time is money. Money is time. Reset your clock.'
--Unknown
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 3/4/2008
Theme: Resources
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A Bun Dance
The opposite of abundance is scarcity. These words contain great word play. The next time you notice yourself slipping into "scarcity thinking", reflect on the words. When you examine the word "scarcity" you will note it contains - scar–city or scar(e)-city which in turn produces a scar(ed)-city where the thinking is there is not enough: time, money or love).
Then examine the word "abundance!" See what God has entrusted to your community and celebrate the assets God has entrusted to you. This is the time to jump up and do a-bun-dance!
--Unknown
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 2/18/2008
Theme: Resources
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Young People's Values
The problem is not that the young people haven't learned our values; it's that they have. They can see beneath our social and religious platitudes to what we care about most. Our great cultural message comes through loud and clear: It is an affluent lifestyle that counts for success and happiness.
Yet we sometimes seem startled when the young really take our consumer values to heart and lose their hearts in the process.
– Jim Wallis from God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, as quoted in The Steward Living in Covenant by Ronald E. Vallet.
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Author: Jim Wallis is a best-selling author, ordained pastor, public theologian, speaker, activist and international commentator on ethics and public life.
Posted: 2/12/2008
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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No Hands But Yours
"Christ has no hands on earth now - but yours." Teresa of Avila
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Author: Teresa of Avila
Posted: 2/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© Teresa of Avila
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Talent Meets Need
"At the point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be." Albert Schweitzer
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Author: Albert Schweitzer
Posted: 2/11/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
© Albert Schweitzer
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Value
"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given." —Deepak Chopra
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Author: Deepak Chopra
Posted: 1/16/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Do All You Can
Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.
- John Wesley
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Author: John Wesley
Posted: 1/16/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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God calls you to . . .
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
-- Frederick Buechner
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Author: Frederick Buechner
Posted: 1/15/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
"She gives most who gives with joy."
- Mother Teresa
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Author: Mother Teresa
Posted: 1/15/2008
Theme: Communicating the Message
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People Who Give
"People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of
their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not
change your income. Change your heart."
- John Maxwell
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Author: John Maxwell
Posted: 11/30/2007
Theme:
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Money
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people
he gave it to."
– Dorothy Parker
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Author: Dorothy Parker
Posted: 11/30/2007
Theme: Resources
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Motivation
"The primary motivation for stewardship is gratitude."
--Anonymous
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Author: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2007
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Stewardship is a faith issue
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Author: Dr. William O. Avery is professor of Field Education and the Arthur L. Larson Professor of Stewardship and Parish Life.
Posted: 9/13/2007
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Why do People give to the Church?
Six reasons.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 4/17/2007
Theme: Resources
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Who Cares
Those who think nobody cares if they're alive have never missed a car payment.
--Unknown
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 4/16/2007
Theme: Resources
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Change
Average Dollar Amount of Spare Change in Households
$99
"Spare Change. Find it. Give it."
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Author: From A Salvation Army Sticky Note
Posted: 11/30/2006
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Be Content
He that is down needs fear no fall,
He that is low, no pride;
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide.
I am content with what I have,
Little be it or much;
And, Lord, contentment still I crave,
Because Thou savest such.
Fullness to such a burden is
That go on pilgrimage;
Here little, and hereafter bliss,
Is best from age to age.
--John Bunyan
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Quote
Author: John Bunyan
Posted: 11/20/2006
Theme: Resources
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MONEY WILL BUY
Money Will Buy'
a bed but not sleep;
books but not brains;
food but not appetite;
finery but not beauty;
a house but not a home;
medicine but not health;
luxuries but not culture;
amusements but not happiness;
religion but not salvation;
a passport to everywhere but heaven.
The Voice In the Wilderness, quoted in Discipleship Journal, Issue 53, 1989, p. 21
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Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 11/20/2006
Theme: Resources
© Unknown
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Life...
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming
"WOW"--- What A RIDE!
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Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/24/2006
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Irish Prayer of Gratitude
You've blessed me with friends, and laughter, and fun.
With rain that's as soft as the light of the sun.
You've blessed me with stars to brighten each night.
You've given me help to know wrong from right.
You've given me so much. Please, Lord, give me too,
a heart that is always grateful to you.
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Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/24/2006
Theme: Resources
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Money: A Collection of Quotations
Quotations about money
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Quote
Author:
Posted: 8/21/2006
Theme: Resources
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Money
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
– Woody Allen
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Quote
Author: Woody Allen
Posted: 8/16/2006
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Give Back
"I don't know what your destiny will be,
but one thing I do know.
The only ones among you
who will be really happy
are those who have sought
and found how to serve."
--Albert Schweitzer
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Quote
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Posted: 8/4/2006
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Money Flows
"Money flows through our lives just like water – at times plentiful, at times a trickle. I believe that each one of us is, in effect, a glass, in that we can hold only so much; after that, the water goes down the drain.
Some of us are larger glasses, some of us smaller, but we all have the capacity to receive plenty more than we need when we allow it.
When you make an offering, the glass will be filled again and again and again." -- Suze Orman, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
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Quote
Author: Suze Orman
Posted: 3/13/2006
Theme: Resources
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Abundance
"We are living in a time of great abundance, perhaps the greatest ever. Why do we act like it is a time of scarcity? Are we ruled by fear rather than love?" --Ken Neher
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Quote
Author: Ken Neher
Posted: 3/13/2006
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Investment
The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.
- Millard Fuller
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Quote
Author: Millard Fuller
Posted: 3/7/2006
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Money
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
--Bob Hope
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Quote
Author: Bob Hope
Posted: 3/6/2006
Theme: Resources
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Love Jesus
"Do you love Jesus? Then you must do something for him."
--Albert Schweitzer
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Quote
Author: Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, pastor, administrator of a village, superintendent of buildings and grounds, writer of scholarly books, commentator on contemporary history.
Posted: 2/23/2006
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Give Time
Seek always to do some good somewhere. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you do not live a world all your own.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Quote
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Posted: 2/23/2006
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Church Sign
HAPPY MEAL $2.49
BMW $55,995
GOD'S LOVE: PRICELESS
--Steve Moline
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Quote
Author: Steve Moline is pastor of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Stillwater, MN.
Posted: 2/18/2006
Theme: Happenings in Congregations
© Steve Moline
If There Were No Lutherans Would There Still Be Green Jell-o?
Tundra Films
Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047
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Generous Person
A generous person is characterized by a noble or forbearing spirit.
Generous persons are liberal in giving and all their actions, charity and help as well as love are marked by abundance.
All humans are MADE TO BE generous - because we all are made to the image of God.
Generousness means giving in abundance like God gives to ALL humans and non-human all and anything and everything in abundance - food, all material goods, beauty, happiness, LOVE, adventure, excitement, experiences, opportunities, grace, mercy and whatever you need to be and to remain happy eternally.
Hence being a generous person is BEING THE IMAGE of God.
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Quote
Author: Author Unknown
Posted: 2/2/2006
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Life
"Jesus did not say, 'I have come that they might have religion,' but, 'I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly.' For the real Christian, every day is God's day."
-William Barclay
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Quote
Author: William Barclay
Posted: 1/19/2006
Theme: Resources
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Tithing
"For the family who does not give a tithe at church,
10% seems 'TOO MUCH.'
But for the family who faithfully gives a tithe each Sunday,
10% seem 'TOO LITTLE,'
to give thanks and praise to a gracious God."
--Dr. Rex. Deepwater
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Quote
Author: Dr. Rex. Deepwater
Posted: 1/14/2006
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Richest Man
"There's no reason to be the richest man
in the cemetery.
You can't do any business from there."
-Colonel Sanders
|
Quote
Author: Colonel Sanders
Posted: 1/11/2006
Theme: Resources
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Christ Has No Body But Yours
"Christ has no body now
on earth, but yours;
no hands but yours;
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which
He is to go about doing good;
yours are the hands
with which He is
to bless people now."
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Quote
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
Posted: 11/29/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do so little."
--Edmund Burke
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Quote
Author: Edmund Burke
Posted: 11/2/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Stewardship
Stewardship is everything – a call, a gift, a lifestyle. We, the women and men of today, are stewards of...the ongoing creation. ~Rosemary Williams, "Giving" Magazine #1
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Quote
Author: Rosemary Williams, "Giving" Magazine #1
Posted: 11/2/2005
Theme: Resources
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Paraphrase of 2 Corinthians 9:10-11
2 Corinthians 9:10-11, "God who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us." NRSV
Eugene Peterson puts it this way.
"This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God."
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Quote
Author: Eugene Peterson
Posted: 9/26/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Giving
"Giving is worship. Nothing could be more simple." ~Mark Vincent, editor, "Giving" Magazine #1
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Quote
Author: Mark Vincent
Posted: 9/17/2005
Theme: Resources
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Determine Pledge
As you contemplate your pledge, think how your response might strengthen your partnership with God through your contributions of time, talent and money.
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Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/17/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Nickel
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
Yoggi Berra
|
Quote
Author: Yoggi Berra
Posted: 8/12/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message - Humor
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Sharing
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advise, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
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Quote
Author: Henri Nouwen
Posted: 8/10/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Gift
Remember, it is all a gift. Remember, there was a time when you weren't so well off too!
--Unknown
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Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/9/2005
Theme: Resources
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Did the Best
"What would the world be like if people who said, 'I did the best I could,'really did."
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/9/2005
Theme: Resources
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Church For Others
"The church is only the church when it is there for others."
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Quote
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted: 6/11/2005
Theme: Resources
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SABBATH OBSERVANCE
The practice of Sabbath goes against every grain of contemporary culture, including sometimes, unfortunately, the church.
I believe the issue is not about integrating Sabbath into our already busy lives, but building our lives around Sabbath observance, finding delight and joy in God. (See Isaiah 58:9b-14) Then we will be in a better position to live the rest of our week with proper balance and perspective.
--Susan Lindvall
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Quote
Author: Susan Lindvall, organist at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Excelsior, MN
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Susan Lindvall, organist at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Excelsior, MN
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Time
"Although we sometimes fret about not having enough time, nearly everyone has been given enough of it to do something with it. Time is the raw material of life. Much can be accomplished with it."
--Jim Mumme
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Quote
Author: Jim Mumme
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Resources
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Greed
"Thou shall not covet" is economic policy. When you get into a safe place you will become greedy. Your stuff will make you forget that it is all a gift! ~Walter Brueggemann
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Quote
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Sabbath
"When the 7th day is recovered as the Sabbath, we will have time for generosity!" ~Walter Brueggemann
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Quote
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Surplus
"The surplus we control, can turn rotten in our hands."
--Unknown
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Freedom
"I've learned that beyond a certain comfortable style of living, the more material things you have, the less freedom you have." ~Age 62
|
Quote
Author: Unknown 62 Year Old
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Resources - Children's Books
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Cost of Money
"I've learned that some money costs too much." ~Age 51
|
Quote
Author: Unknown 51 Year Old
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Everything Your Want
"I've learned that if you give a pig and a boy everything they want, you'll get a good pig and a bad boy."
--Age 77
|
Quote
Author: Unknown 77 Year Old
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme:
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Just For You
I've seen you stalking the malls, walking the aisles, searching for that extra-special gift. Stashing away a few dollars a month to buy him some lizard-skin boots; staring at a thousand rings to find her the best diamond; staying up all night Christmas Eve, assembling the new bicycle.
Why do you do it? So the eyes will pop, the jaw will drop. To hear those words of disbelief: "You did this for me?"
And that is why God did it. Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as heaven shispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you." —
Max Lucado, The Great House of God (Word)
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Quote
Author: Max Lucado
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Giving
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. —Kahlil Gibran
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Quote
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Posted: 5/25/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give." —Walt Whitman
|
Quote
Author: Walt Whitman
Posted: 5/23/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Possessions
"Possessions become useful and acceptable in so far as they are dispensable, let go and made them available for God's purposes." --Unknown
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 5/17/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Wealth
"Challenge of wealth is its challenge of faith."
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 5/17/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Not Enough
"There are 10,000 messages a week letting telling us we don't have enough, we have not accumulaed enough, we don't have the right things."
Unknown
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 5/17/2005
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Faithful God
"God will be faithful if you give God a chance."
Unknown
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 5/17/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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What Is Money?
"Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languagesyou cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Quote
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Posted: 4/29/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Overabundance of Stuff
"...You and I can only spend time in two basic ways; in relationship with others or in "relationship" with our things – cleaning, repairing, organizing, storing, fighting over, protecting them, etc. The more things we have, the less time for relationship with others. When our ministry efforts help folks understand that an overabundance of stuff keeps them from what Jesus said life was meant to be, we are giving them a great gift."
--From More Good Sense Email Newsleter
April 2005
Dick Towner
Executive Director
Good $ense Stewardship Movement
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Quote
Author: Dick Towner
Posted: 4/27/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Economic System
"Of itself, an economic system does not possess criteria for correctly distinguishing new and higher forms of satisfying human needs from artificial new needs which hinder the formation of human personality. Thus a great deal of education and cultural work is needed, including the education of consumers in responsible use of their power of choice [and] the formation of a strong sense of responsibility among producers."
- Pope Paul VI
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Quote
Author: Pope Paul VI
Posted: 4/27/2005
Theme: Resources
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Empty Hands
"God gives where He finds empty hands. A man whose hands are full of parcels can't receive a gift."
|
Quote
Author: St. Augustine
Posted: 4/21/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Stewardship Is
"Stewardship is the life that springs from grace."
--Anonymous
|
Quote
Author: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Difficult For Rich To Enter the Kingdom
"Christ said it was difficult for "the rich" to enter the kingdom of Heaven, referring, no doubt, to "riches" in the ordinary sense. But I think it really covers riches in every sense - good fortune, health, popularity and all the things one wants to have.
All these things tend - just as money tends - to make you feel independent of God, because if you have them you are happy already and contented in this life. You don't want to turn away to anything more, and so you try to rest in a shadowy happiness as if it could last forever.
But God wants to give you a real and eternal happiness.
Consequently, he may have to take all these "riches" away from you: If he doesn't, you will go on relying on them."
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Quote
Author: C. S. Lewis, "Answers to Questions on Christianity," C. S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992), Page 103.
Posted: 1/31/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Excellence is about giving;
Ambition is about taking.
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Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 1/25/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Christ's Body
Christ has no body now on earth but yours; no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which He is to go about doing good; yours are the hands with which He is to bless people now.
- St. Theresa of Avila
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Quote
Author: St. Theresa of Avila
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources - Children's Books
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Count the Cost
Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve: To give and not to count the cost...
- St. Ingatius of Loyola
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Quote
Author: St. Ingatius of Loyola
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Give Self
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahlil Gibran
|
Quote
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Pleasures Price
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
- Thomas Fuller
|
Quote
Author:
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
- Thomas Fuller
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Do Good
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
- William Penn
|
Quote
Author: William Penn
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Gardeners
God made us to be the gardeners of Paradise
- Thomas Merton
|
Quote
Author: Thomas Merton
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Identity
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
- St. Gregory the Great
|
Quote
Author: St. Gregory the Great
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Trust
So you are not a miser, nor do you rob, yet you treat as your own what you have received in trust for others.
- St. Basil
|
Quote
Author: St. Basil
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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The Good
Every person is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire
|
Quote
Author: Voltaire
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Money
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
Quote
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Communicating the Message
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For The Community
Each citizen should plan his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
- Plato
|
Quote
Author: Plato
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Giving
It is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
|
Quote
Author: St. Francis of Assisi
Posted: 1/22/2005
Theme: Resources
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Love Is
"Love is intentionally doing something caring or helpful for another person, in Jesus' name, regardless of the cost or consequences to oneself."
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 1/18/2005
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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"No on ever became poor by giving"
--Anne Frank
|
Quote
Author: Anne Frank
Posted: 12/29/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
--Maya Angelou
|
Quote
Author: Maya Angelou
Posted: 12/13/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Stewardship's Origins
Stewardship Medieval Roots
|
Quote
Author: Robert K. Greenleaf
Posted: 12/6/2004
Theme: Resources
© Robert K. Greenleaf
Paulist Press
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"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: Amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic." (unknown)
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 12/4/2004
Theme: Resources
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"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do so little."
--Edmund Burke
|
Quote
Author: Edmund Burke
Posted: 11/19/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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| "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
|
Quote
Author: Grace Murray Hopper
Posted: 10/9/2004
Theme: Resources
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| "The more you share unselfishly, the more you live abundantly."
|
Quote
Author: Don Meyer, member of The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Minneapolis, MN
Posted: 10/9/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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"If the Lord can't get into your pocket, he probably isn't in your heart."
--James Nelson
|
Quote
Author: The Rev.James A Nelson, retired pastor who lives in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Posted: 10/9/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving Is Worship
Giving is worship. Nothing could be more simple.
~Mark Vincent, editor, "Giving" Magazine #1
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Quote
Author: Mark Vincent, editor, "Giving" Magazine #1
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Money Like Water
Money flows through our lives just like water – at times plentiful, at times a trickle.
I believe that each one of us is, in effect, a glass, in that we can hold only so much; after that, the water goes down the drain.
Some of us are larger glasses, some of us smaller, but we all have the capacity to receive plenty more than we need when we allow it.
When you make an offering, the glass will be filled again and again and again.
--Suze Orman from The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
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Quote
Author: Suze Orman
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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The Wise Ant
"Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise. Without having any chief or officer or ruler. it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest. How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?" Prov. 6:6-10
"This proverbial ant knew the importance of preparing for tomorrow. Unfortunately, there are more of us who are like the lazybones than the ant when it comes to planning for the future. Recent studies indicate that approximately 70% of Americans die without a will, without a plan for the future of their accumulated gifts and assets.
"As Christians, the preparation and periodic review of a will is an act of faithful stewardship that expresses our belief about God's claim upon us -and upon what we have been given to use and manage. A will provides for the distribution of our possessions in keeping with our values and beliefs and ensures that what we have acquired during our life will become."
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Quote
Author: Source Unknown
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Money Is Like Fire
"Like fire, money itself is neither good nor evil. It is neutral, its character determined by the eye of the perceiver, the hand of the user." --Jerrold Mundis, Making Peace With Money
|
Quote
Author: Jerrold Mundis
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Material Things Cost Freedom
"I've learned that beyond a certain comfortable style of living, the more material things you have, the less freedom you have."
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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When You Give Everything
"I've learned that if you give a pig and a boy everything they want, you'll get a good pig and a bad boy." Unknown
|
Quote
Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Giving A Necessity
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having. —
|
Quote
Author: Margaret Lee Runbeck
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Give Unasked
"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." —Kahlil Gibran
|
Quote
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Deprivation
"The only real deprivation is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most." —May Sarton
|
Quote
Author: May Sarton
Posted: 10/6/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Content
"He is poor who does not feel content."
- Japanese proverb
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Quote
Author: Japanese Proverb
Posted: 10/3/2004
Theme: Resources
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Water Is A Theme
"Like drops of water, our indivdiual gifts merge, forming a river that flows from this community of learners, out into a world of commitment, discovery, joy and service."
Water is a theme in the life of Jim Peterson and in the history of Gustavus Adolphus College, which was founded in Red Wing, Minnesota, near the Mississippi in 1862 and has, since 1876, been in the ancient valley of the River Warren, now the course of the Minnesota River. Dr. Peterson, an entomologist and aquatic biologist by training, has enjoyed the respite and mystery of rivers throughout his life.
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Quote
Author: From Inauguration Announcement of Jim Peterson as President of Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN during festivities in April 2004.
Posted: 10/3/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Gratitude
"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us--and He has given us everything.
Every breath we draw
is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."
From Thoughts In Solitude by Thomas Merton
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Quote
Author: Thomas Merton
Posted: 9/4/2004
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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A Sabbath Quote
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and rest afterwards."
Sent by Stephanie Frey, Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church, Spring Grove, MN 55974
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Quote
Author: Spanish Proverb
Posted: 9/4/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Being Content
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." - Maurice Setter
|
Quote
Author: Maurice Setter
Posted: 8/27/2004
Theme: Resources
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Sabbath Is A Holiday
"The Sabbath, the one day in seven dedicated to rest by divine command, has become the holiday Americans are most likely never to take."
Judith Schulevitz
--New York Times Magazine, 3/2/2003
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Quote
Author: Judith Shulevitz
Posted: 8/27/2004
Theme: Resources
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Sabbath Worship
"If you are too busy to worship, you are far busier than God ever intended you to be."
-Evelyn Hoffman
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Quote
Author: Evelyn Hoffman, David & Jerry Hoffman's mother
Posted: 8/27/2004
Theme: Resources
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Happiness Scale
"Some money is sad money, some is happy money. Sad money is paid as a duty or a penalty. Taxes, debt-payments, fine--these are paid with sad money. Unfortunately many church members respond to stewardship appeals with sad money."
--Ashley Hale
From "Creating Congregations of Generous People" by Michael Durall
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Quote
Author: Ashley Hale
Posted: 7/22/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Consumption
"At what point does personal consumption become unethical?"
|
Quote
Author: Thomas Kirk, Minneapolis, MN.
Posted: 7/3/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Things We Leave Behind
It's hard to imagine
the freedom we find
from the things
we leave behind.
--From the lyrics of Things We Leave Behind
by Michael Card
|
Quote
Author: Michael Card
Posted: 6/17/2004
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Gratitude
A generous heart will be formed by a gratitude that remembers what all God has done for you.
|
Quote
Author: Dave Johnson
Posted: 6/16/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Make a Life
"You make a living by what you get...But you make a life by what you give." - Winston Churchill
|
Quote
Author: Winston Churchill
Posted: 6/16/2004
Theme: Resources - Children's Books
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Contentment
"He is poor who does not feel content."
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Author: Japanese Proverb
Posted: 6/16/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Gratitude
"If you're short of cash, it may take extra willpower to look at the bright side. But it's worth it. Gratitude has the power to transform your outlook and open your eyes to life's fullness. It can transform a trinket into a treasure, a meal into a feast, a deficit into a gain."
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Author: Louise Rousseau
Posted: 6/16/2004
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Silver Lining
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." - Maurice Setter
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Author: Maurice Setter
Posted: 6/16/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Greed
Francis Xavier once commented that in the confessional booth people confess all sorts of sin, but never covetousness, never greed.
--Ronald vallet, Congregations at the Crossroads
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Author: Ronald Vallet
Posted: 6/8/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Truth and Love
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
William Sloan Coffin
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Author: William Sloan Coffin, Former Pastor at Riverside Church, New York City.
Posted: 6/3/2004
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Author: Induk Pahk, The Wisdom of the Dragon (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), page 70.
Posted: 4/5/2004
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Clue to Character
"Get to know two things about a man -- how he earns his money and how he spends it -- and you have the clue to his character.
"You will know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, and his real religion."
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Author: Robert J. McCracken (1904-1973)
Posted: 3/19/2004
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Joy in Giving
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Author: Eleanor Roosevelt, United Nations Diplomat, humanitarian and wife of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt,1884-1962
Posted: 11/15/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Gratitude
"I am sure that we humor God more if we gratefully accept the life he gives us with all its blessings, loving it and drinking it to the full . . . than we do if we are insensitive toward the blessings of life and therefore equally insensitive toward pain"
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
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Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted: 11/7/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Touchstone Books
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FAITH
Faith is
The bucket of power
Lowered by the rope of prayer
Into the well of God's abundance.
What we bring up
Depends upon what we let down.
We have every encouragement
To use a big bucket.
--Virginia Whitman
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Author: Virginia Whitman
Posted: 11/7/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Life
Gaining one's life comes in the letting go instead of the grasping.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 11/6/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Money
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith
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Author: Will Smith
American Author and rapper, 1968
Posted: 10/18/2003
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Generosity
"Compassionate generosity is the foundation of true spiritual life because it is the practice of letting go. An act of generosity opens our body, heart and spirit and brings us closer to freedom. Each act of generosity is a recognition of our interdependence."
Jack Kornfield, A Path With Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
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Author: Jack Kornfield
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Doubleday; (July 1993)
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Money
"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
--M. L. Mencken
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Author: M. L. Mencken
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Resources
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Privilege and Stewardship
Privilege is an enemy of stewardship. Stewardship is the willingness to give up your privilege so that others might be saved.
--Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas
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Author: The Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas, Pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church. Memphis, TN
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
© Dr. Frank A. Thomas
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Gratitude
"Gratitude unexpressed is just as dangerous as guilt unforgiven."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
It is God's nature to give.
You and I are fashioned after God's likeness.
That means we are made for giving.
Each one of us has a need to give.
Someone has said,
"We can give without loving,
but we can't love without giving."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Stewardship Leadership
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Generous
"We are always better when we are generous."
Bob Woodward, remark on ABC News
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Author: Bob Woodward, Washington Post Writer
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Inflation
"Inflation is creeping up,"
a young man said to his friend.
"Yesterday I ordered a $25 steak in a restaurant
and told them to put it on my Visa...and it fit."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message - Humor
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Money
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not
to have any."
--Katharine Whitehorn
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Author: Katharine Whitehorn
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Resources
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Advertising
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Resources
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People Who Care
In a world that "couldn't care less," we are to be people who couldn't care more.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message
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A Dollar Birthday
The greatest surprise of Mary's life
was receiving a dollar on her fourth birthday.
She carried the bill about the house and
was seen sitting on the stairs admiring it.
"What are you going to do with your dollar?" her mother asked.
"Take it to Sunday School," said Mary promptly.
"To show your teacher?" Mary shook her head.
"No," she said. "I'm going to give it to God.
He'll be as surprised as I am to get something besides pennies."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message
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Giving
"Every generous act of giving is from above."
--James 1:17
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Author:
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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A Dollar
Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when you take it to the store. -- Frank Clark
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Author: Frank Clark
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message
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A Matter of Fact
I have never known a generous person
to complain about how much money it takes to run a church.
Poor givers gripe about how much it takes;
generous givers express concern that they don't do more.
I have never known a family
who tithed for any length of time who quit.
I have never known a generous family
that was not generally happy.
I have never known a stingy, miserly family
that was not generally unhappy about many things.
I have never known a person
who was critical of most things,
mad about many things,
who was generous.
I have come to believe that
most people who feel we talk too much about money,
never really want to talk about money at all.
Generous people enjoy talking about it.
I have come to believe that
there is a direct connection that exists
between a person's faith and
a person's generosity.
Those who give generously tend
to become more faithful;
and the reverse is true in both instances.
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/11/2003
Theme: Becoming a Steward
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Quarter
"A quarter goes a long way nowadays. You can carry it around for days and not find anything you can buy with it."
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 10/1/2003
Theme: Communicating the Message - Humor
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Money
"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money."
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Author: Joey Bishop
Posted: 9/30/2003
Theme: Resources
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You Can't Outgive God
How much can I give? Much more than I ever thought or believed. The old cliche is, "You can't outgive God!"
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Author: Unknown
Posted: 8/27/2003
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