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Giving too much a way of life
Carol Duerksen
The years have blurred some of
the details, but Ray and Luetta Frey of Goessel, Kan., tell their story of
the endless hay bales as matter of factly as if it happened yesterday.
We’d counted and we were not going to have
enough bales for our cattle for the winter Ray states. We knew that. We
fed them, we waited to run out and it never happened. We just never ran
out.
Their experience is not unlike the story found in I Kings 17:8-16, Lu
notes. In that passage, Elijah the prophet is sent to the home of a poor
widow to ask for food and bread. The widow has only enough meal to prepare
one small cake for herself and her son. Yet, Elijah promises her that if
she bakes him a small cake, then the jar of meal will not be emptied and
the jug of oil will not fail until the day that the Lord sends rain on the
earth. She did as he asked, and indeed the contents of the jar and
jug didn’t run out.
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Today's Global
Needs
Read where we as humanity are
in this world. How many people have access to food, electricity,
education, etc.
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Alternatives for Simple Living
Alternatives for Simple Living is a nonprofit organization that
"equips people of faith to challenge consumerism, live justly, and
celebrate responsibly." The organization has helped lead the movement
to live more simply and faithfully. Begun in 1973 as a protest against
the commercialization of Christmas, Alternatives now also encourages
celebrations year-round that reflect conscientious ways of living.
Their staff and volunteers have developed a wide variety of resources,
organized an annual Christmas Campaign, led numerous workshops, and
reached countless people with the message of simple, responsible
living.
Alternatives believes it is essential to restore moderation and
perspective to celebrations that are too often self-indulgent and says
that changing the way we celebrate is an important first step in
adopting a more responsible lifestyle.
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Never Enough:
How to Achieve Financial and Spiritual Breakthrough
By David Holdaway
Review by Stan Banker
My expectations going into David Holdaway's book were different than my
actual experience reading his book. This is not to say I was disappointed,
but only to say the author chose a different path than I expected in
addressing financial and spiritual breakthrough. The book felt more like a
theological treatise relating to one's concept of money than addressing
practical financial ideas from a Christian perspective. However, he does an
excellent job addressing many of the theological concepts and biblical
teachings regarding money including its ownership, Old Testament teachings,
New Testament teachings, and the understanding God's economy. more |
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Money and Faith Study Circle
Handbook
By Jan Sullivan Dockter
Ministry of Money, 2001,
Review by Stan Banker
Rating:
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4
5
The Money and Faith Study Circle Handbook is
designed to be used by small groups.
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Money for
Life:
How You Can
Create a Financial Plan for Life
By Stephen R. Bolt with W. Terry Whalin
Review by John Todd
This is the first book that
I have read on financial planning in general. I found it to be helpful as
a general book about investing and insurance. The main drive of the book
is that one must have a purpose in life first. Money comes second to
purpose. I have read other books from a Christian perspective so I have
some feel for his religious background. His style is quite personal in
that he talks about his personal experiences with his family and in sports
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Our Teachers,
The Poor
by Bob Hadley
For years, when I
talked about how important it is for those of us who have so much more
than we need to have personal relationships with the poor, I usually spoke
of how much we can learn from the poor. I even said, almost glibly, how
much I had learned from the pitifully few relationships I had had with the
poorest of the poor. When I would say this, people would either nod in
agreement or else would not understand what I had just said. In any event
no one asked me to explain just what it was that they could learn or what
I had learned from such relationships. This was fortunate for me because I
don't think I could have explained it in any specific way. I just knew I
had learned....more
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Dream On:
Discovering Your Call
By Rosemary Williams with
Joanne Kabak
In the lives of women I
have worked with, and in the course of my own life, I have seen amazing
transformations happen around issues of money. Each woman approaches that
transformation from a different place. Some are poised to put their money
in alignment with their spirit and need only a little "nudge", a little
more insight, a new sense of order to make the connection. Others have
more work to do and find that they need more time to understand their
finances before they can meld its uses with their spiritual energy.
But over and over, I have
seen one consistent pattern: When people allow a dream to come to light,
amazing "coincidences" do happen.
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A Woman’s Book
of Money & Spiritual Vision
By Rosemary
Williams with Joanne Kabak
Reviewed by Lisa Baker
A Woman’s Book of Money & Spiritual Vision is not your garden-variety
financial management book. Rosemary Williams has managed to deftly combine
psychology and spirituality with fiscal responsibility; an unlikely trio to
be sure, but the results are inarguable. Through the course of answering a
series of provocative questions, the reader will begin to understand her own
feelings and attitudes toward money and the influences that created them.
This book provides a safe haven in which to explore these intimate
revelations, although it does allow a framework by which this process may be
done as a group, or with one other person. . .
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