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Stewardship of Resources

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Know the Condition of Your Flocks: Proverbs 21, 22 and 27 on Margin, Debt and Paying Attention

Know the Condition of Your Flocks: Proverbs 21, 22 and 27 on Margin, Debt and Paying Attention

The wise keep a store while fools gulp theirs down, the borrower becomes a servant, and the steward who prospers is the one who knows the condition of the flock. Here is what Proverbs 21, 22 and 27 teach about margin, debt and paying attention to what God has put in your care.

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Selling Your Own People: Nehemiah 5 and the Leader Who Refused to Profit From Debt

Selling Your Own People: Nehemiah 5 and the Leader Who Refused to Profit From Debt

Halfway through rebuilding the wall, Nehemiah heard a cry from inside the city: the nobles were charging their own people interest and taking their fields and children as pledges. Here is what Nehemiah 5 teaches leaders about debt, profit and the reverence for God that refuses to get rich off the people they serve.

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Only What Comes From Your Hand: 1 Chronicles 29 and the Leader Who Gives It All Back

Only What Comes From Your Hand: 1 Chronicles 29 and the Leader Who Gives It All Back

David gave his personal treasure for a temple he would never see, and then he prayed the most honest sentence a giver can pray: everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand. Here is what 1 Chronicles 29 teaches about owning nothing and giving freely.

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Don't Ask for Just a Few: 2 Kings 4 and the Widow's Oil on Debt, Help and Provision

Don't Ask for Just a Few: 2 Kings 4 and the Widow's Oil on Debt, Help and Provision

A widow with a creditor at the door and one small jar of oil asked a prophet for help, and God answered through her own house, her neighbors' empty jars and a closed door. 2 Kings 4 shows how God meets a household in debt and what He asks of the people He rescues.

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A Handful of Flour: 1 Kings 17 and the Faith to Give First

A Handful of Flour: 1 Kings 17 and the Faith to Give First

A widow in Zarephath had one handful of flour left, and a prophet asked her to bake for him first. 1 Kings 17 shows what happens when a steward gives out of scarcity and trusts God for enough, one day at a time.

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Silver as Common as Stones: 1 Kings 10 and 11 on Wealth and the Slow Drift of the Heart

Silver as Common as Stones: 1 Kings 10 and 11 on Wealth and the Slow Drift of the Heart

Solomon did not fall in a day. Deuteronomy 17 gave Israel's kings three simple limits, and 1 Kings 10 and 11 show the wisest man who ever lived breaking every one of them, slowly, in plain sight, while the money poured in. Here is how to keep wealth from turning your heart.

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Fifty Shekels of Silver: 2 Samuel 24 and the Offering That Costs Something

Fifty Shekels of Silver: 2 Samuel 24 and the Offering That Costs Something

David was offered everything he needed for free, and he refused it. In 2 Samuel 24 a king who had counted his own strength learns to pay full price for worship, and the threshing floor he bought becomes the place where the temple would stand.

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The Silver Under the Tent: Joshua 7 on Hidden Wealth and the Trouble It Brings

The Silver Under the Tent: Joshua 7 on Hidden Wealth and the Trouble It Brings

What you hide does not stay hidden, and it never stays yours. Joshua 7 tells how one man's buried silver troubled a whole nation, and how honest confession turned the Valley of Trouble into a door of hope.

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More Than Enough: Exodus 36 and the Leader Who Told the People to Stop Giving

More Than Enough: Exodus 36 and the Leader Who Told the People to Stop Giving

The people kept bringing gifts until the craftsmen asked Moses to make them stop. Exodus 36:3-7 is the only campaign in Scripture that ended because there was too much, and it shows what willing hearts, honest workers and a leader who knows the word "enough" look like.

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Seven Good Years: Genesis 41 on Planning for Plenty and Famine

Seven Good Years: Genesis 41 on Planning for Plenty and Famine

Pharaoh dreamed of fat cows and thin ones, and Joseph saw a fourteen-year plan. Genesis 41 shows how to steward a season of plenty before the famine comes: a fifth of the harvest set aside, a plan kept in the good years, and grain that ended up feeding the world.

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Ten Times Changed: Genesis 30 and 31 on Honest Work Under an Unfair Boss

Jacob worked twenty years for a boss who changed his wages ten times. Genesis 30 and 31 show what honest labor looks like under an unfair employer, how God sees the toil no one else credits, and why even a wronged worker needs his own heart examined.

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The Well-Watered Plain: Genesis 13 and the Leader Who Lets Others Choose First

When wealth crowded two families off the same hills, Abram did something few leaders would: he let his nephew choose first. Genesis 13 shows how open hands protect relationships, expose the eye that only sees advantage, and make room for God to speak.

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The Shrine Beside the Altar: 2 Kings 17 and Modern Idolatry

The Shrine Beside the Altar: 2 Kings 17 and Modern Idolatry

In 2 Kings 17, people worshiped the Lord and served other gods. See what syncretism is and how money, fame and screens become rivals to God today.

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Enough for Today: Exodus 16 and the Discipline of Daily Bread

Enough for Today: Exodus 16 and the Discipline of Daily Bread

God fed Israel one day at a time on purpose. Exodus 16 shows why the hoard spoils, why rest is built in, and why discipline means gathering what today requires.

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Everything Is Breath: Ecclesiastes 1 to 12 and the Joy of Stewarding a Fleeting Life

Everything Is Breath: Ecclesiastes 1 to 12 and the Joy of Stewarding a Fleeting Life

Ecclesiastes calls everything hevel, a breath. Learn how Ecclesiastes 1 to 12 teaches you to steward a fleeting life with contentment, joy, and the fear of God.

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You Will Become What You Fear: Psalm 112 and the Fear of the Lord in Your Money

You Will Become What You Fear: Psalm 112 and the Fear of the Lord in Your Money

Psalms 111 and 112 reveal that what you fear, you become. See how the fear of the Lord makes leaders generous, just, and steady when bad news comes.

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The Bronze David Never Used: 2 Samuel 8 and 9

The Bronze David Never Used: 2 Samuel 8 and 9

David won more than any king before him and kept the best of it for God and others. What 2 Samuel 8-9 teaches about treasure, justice, and a promise kept. What You Do With the Overflow I have had seasons where nothing worked. I have also had seasons where everything did. The second kind is more dangerous. When things go badly, you pray because you have to. When things go well, you start to believe you built it. What you do with the overflow tells the truth about who you think won it. 2 Samuel...

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The Share of the Man Who Stayed: 1 Samuel 28 to 31

The Share of the Man Who Stayed: 1 Samuel 28 to 31

David gave the exhausted 200 the same share as the 400 who fought. A study in 1 Samuel 28 to 31 on leadership, ownership, and grace over merit. I want to start with the two hundred men nobody talks about. They are three days behind a burned town. Their families are gone. Their homes are […]

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The Open Hand Economy: Deuteronomy 15 and the Leader Who Always Has Enough

The Open Hand Economy: Deuteronomy 15 and the Leader Who Always Has Enough

Deuteronomy 15 and the Leader Who Always Has Enough A study of Deuteronomy 15 on generosity, provision, and why open-handed leaders never run dry. Biblical stewardship for everyday leaders. There is a sentence buried in Deuteronomy 15 that should make every leader uncomfortable.“Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart, and you […]

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