Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.