The Stewardship Resource Database

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Sermon  Sermon
  • Author: Quinn Gorges is a Master of Divinity student at Pacific Lutheran Theological School.
  • Updated: 10/20/2008
  • Copyright: Quinn Gorges
Make Your Life Count

Texts: Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16
1 Timothy 6:6-19 Luke 16:19-31

Gorges speaks within this sermon about giving and financial stewardship.  This sermon can be summarized by the final sentence within it: "Make your life count by giving."

Sermon  Sermon
Fear Grips Wall Street

2 Corinthians 8:1-9
Amazing things happen when we give ourselves to the Lord. It is not that all our troubles or challenges will magically disappear but rather we begin to see ourselves and the world in a different light -- a new perspective -- we begin to see how rich we are.

Sermon  Sermon
  • Author: Dr. Ed Kruse, Director for Stewardship Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • Updated: 10/13/2008
  • Copyright: Dr. Ed Kruse, Director of Stewardship for the ELCA
Storage: Simplifying Our Lives

Text: Luke 12:16-24 The Parable of the Rich Fool
Proper 13C/ Ordinary 18C
There is so much good news in this story. One piece of good news is that it is time to downsize. Another piece of good news is that it is God who is calling me to live a simplifying life. God is calling me to be a good steward of the good news of Jesus Christ. God is calling me to enjoy being more generous in serving and glorifying God and building up the body of Christ.

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Seeds

The heart of following Jesus isn't about getting anything and everything we want right now.  Following Jesus is about turning a blind eye to the shallow and instantaneous and slowly, surely, steadily, faithfully planting our lives here, there and everywhere for his glory.

Sermon  Sermon
  • Author: Ordained in 1951, George Haynes is a mission developer for Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Rockport, Texas. He is an ELCA Stewardship key leader.
  • Updated: 09/11/2008
  • Copyright: George Haynes,
    P.O. Box 301,
    109 Peach Tree Drive,
    Rockport TX 78381
First You’d Better Buy a Semi and Eight Other Stewardship Sermons

Malachi 3:10

Generous, faithful, awesome. George Haynes trumpets these attributes of God in a series of stewardship sermons.

When I heard George give one of these inspiring stewardship meditations, I asked him if he would give them to me so I could post them on the Stewardship for the 21st Century Web site. "That way," I told him, "they will be globally and ecumenically available."

I was thrilled when I received the packet in the mail from this faithful and long-serving pastor and am pleased to make them available for your inspiration.

To appreciate them, you need to read them out loud with passion and conviction. Be excited about what God is doing! Proclaim loudly in many ways, "Our God is a God of abundance." God speaks through these sermons; lives are shaped and changed by them. Through them, you will encounter a living, loving, inviting, giving and grace-filled God.

(Note: The title of each excerpt below is a link to the complete sermon text.)