What is the best financial advice you ever received? Here’s Paul’s advice… do good. Not normal good. Everybody is supposed to do that. But good like only rich people can do. He says rich people are supposed to be good at good deeds. Rich people have extra time: Saturday & Sunday off, vacations, 8 hour [...]
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How to be Rich (Part 2) – 1 Timothy 6:17-19
Posted in Sermon Notes, tagged generosity, giving, service on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How to be Rich (Part 1) – 1 Timothy 6:17-19
Posted in Sermon Notes, tagged arrogance, generosity, giving, money, Personal Finance, stewardship, Wealth on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It seems everybody is telling us how to get rich, but nobody is telling us how to be rich. Nobody seems to know where the line is between rich and not rich. Ask a rich person ‘Are you rich?” and you know what he will say? NO! Most rich people don’t think they’re rich. One [...]
Give, Pray, Fast Secretly – Matthew 6:1-18
Posted in Sermon Notes, tagged fasting, giving, good works, prayer on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the first commands is “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16). In today’s text, he seems to be telling us to do the opposite: (v. 4) thine alms (gifts) may be in secret… (v. 6) When thou prayest, enter [...]
