The Stewardship Resource Database

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.

 

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  • Author: John L. Golv is Pastor for Worship and Stewardship at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lindstrom, MN and formerly Stewardship Specialist and Mission Director in the Northeastern Iowa Synod
  • Updated: 12/19/2012
  • ISBN: 0-8066-4406-0
  • Copyright: Augsburg-Fortress
Our Stewardship: Managing Our Assets

"The key stewardship question is this: 'Why do we have what we have?'"

"Christian stewards receive, use, and offer God's gifts, according to the heart and mind of God."

In Our Stewardship: Managing Our Assets, Golv provides encouragement and tools to help a congregation discover its gifts and how they can use those gifts well.

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  • Author: Eugene Grimm is a stewardship specialist for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
  • Updated: 12/19/2012
  • ISBN: 0-687-14045-5
  • Copyright: Abingdon Press
Generous People: How to Encourage Vital Stewardship

Generous People gives detailed practical counsel with a focus on growing people spiritually.

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  • Author: Donald W. Joiner is an ordained clergyperson.  He serves as Operations Officer and Director of Fund Development at the United Methodist General Board of Discipleship
  • Updated: 12/18/2012
  • ISBN: 0-88177-318-2
  • Copyright: Discipleship Resources
Creating a Climate For Giving

Creating a Climate for Giving brings a vision for encouraging a giving climate.  Joiner explores the subsystems through which a church leads its members to give or not to give. He advocates moving from "fund-raising" to "funding ministry."

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  • Author: Thomas L. Friedman.  Mr. Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist.
  • Updated: 12/18/2012
  • ISBN: 0385499345
  • Copyright: Anchor Books
The Lexus And The Olive Tree

The major theme of The Lexus and The Olive Tree is the reality of globalization.  Friedman declares that this system is the only viable alternative for economic viability.  Globalization is the international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today.

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  • Author: Maurice A. Fetty recently retired after serving for 13 years as the senior minister of the Congregational Church of Manhasset (United Church of Christ) in Manhasset, N.Y.
  • Updated: 12/18/2012
  • ISBN: 0-7880-1903-1
  • Copyright: CSS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Money and the Kingdom of God

Can the rich be righteous; can the righteous be rich?