by Mike Hicks | Sep 14, 2017 | Giving
Bill Easum’s Advice about New Christians and Money The Effective Church Group recently shared an article by Bill Easum regarding new believers and money. (www.effectivechurch.com) Easum believes that moving new Christians to generosity does not begin with...
by Mike Hicks | Aug 30, 2017 | Children, Giving
Children and Tithing A recent Leading Ideas article from the Lewis Center for Church Leadership shared about teaching children to tithe. Dan Pezet writes that giving to God is a core value of our faith. I agree with him. Giving is at the heart of who we are as...
by Mike Hicks | Aug 23, 2017 | Giving
Some Reasons People Are Not Giving Horizons Stewardship shared some of the following information written by Dustin Cooper. He suggests that there are four reasons why active church families fail to give. The first is personal debt. People just cannot give...
by Mike Hicks | Jun 28, 2017 | Giving
Do We Believe in Abundance? Richard Rohr in one of his daily meditations states that we often live within a worldview of scarcity. We are worried that there is never enough to go around. He writes, “The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the human mind is...
by Mike Hicks | May 17, 2017 | Giving, Planning
Resource Materials for Churches Providing Financial Literacy Last week I wrote about counties struggling with high poverty rates and the downward financial earnings pressure on children in those settings. I began to research materials that might help churches begin to...
by Mike Hicks | May 3, 2017 | Giving, Planning
Do It Now! Now is the time to begin to address the issue of generosity in your church. Tomorrow will be too late. One-third of 2017 has come and gone. If you have all the resources you will ever need for effective ministry, you need not pay attention to my...
