Articles to help you develop and lead your stewardship ministry, and stewardship tips you can pass on to your congregation.
Financial mistakes. We all make them. But often, those mistakes become patterns that we don’t recognize. Why do we make the same mistakes repeatedly? Why do we swing over to make exactly the opposite mistakes? Learn how to move beyond shame over past mistakes to recognize their causes and make different decisions in the future.
Most of our financial decisions don’t begin with numbers. The numbers are simply reflections of our realities and our priorities. Learn some key factors that influence our financial decisions and how to respond more intentionally.
If we’re not prepared, financial setbacks can impact our lives in multiple ways. We can panic and make unwise decisions in a desperate struggle for stability. Or, we can take a step back and prayerfully consider alternatives. Learn how to respond wisely to unexpected setbacks.
We all face financial setbacks. Sometimes we’re prepared; sometimes we’re not. But regardless of our level of financial preparation, these setbacks can impact us emotionally and threaten our commitment to stewardship. Learn how to respond from a Biblical perspective.
Stewardship, like all discipleship, has certain characteristics common to all believers – like patience, gratitude, and faith. But it doesn’t look identical in each person. Learn how to apply some key principles and patterns in your unique situation.
Spring cleaning – it’s not just for houses! This is a great time of year to check in with any financial goals we set for the year and make any course corrections needed. Host James Lenhoff leads us through reflecting on our financial progress.
Stewardship ministry can be hard, especially if we’ve created confusion by focusing narrowly on debt retirement or giving. A fruitful stewardship ministry involves the entire congregation in a discipleship-related conversation. Join us as James shows us how to lay the foundation for a fruitful stewardship ministry.
Saving. It’s not exciting and doesn’t feel urgent, so we often push it to the back burner. But saving provides the financial margin we need and helps us build character in the process. Learn some keys to successful saving in this episode.
Developing oneness in finances and building understanding of each other’s backgrounds and motivations lays the foundation for the key final step: agreeing on priorities that will guide financial decisions.
Spouses bring different financial assumptions into a marriage, based on factors like family of origin and money motivations. This tends to result in conflicts that look like money arguments but actually go deeper. One key to harmony is to build understanding of each other’s financial assumptions.
Spouses fight over money. But are the arguments really about the numbers, or are they about something deeper? Becoming one as a couple includes becoming one financially. Learn how to replace “mine and yours” with “ours”.
Early career; starting and raising a family; retirement – these stages of life build on the stewardship foundation established earlier. Learn how to apply Biblical stewardship principles to key decisions in these life stages.
