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  1. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 19, 2026 · 12 min read

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

    … Chapter 3 is the most famous poem in the book. "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." (Ecclesiastes 3:1, NIV) Birth and death. Planting and uprooting. Weeping and …

  2. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 31, 2026 · 14 min read

    You Are Not Your Own: Psalm 24 and 1 Corinthians 6 on Whose Life It Really Is

    Before you can steward your time, your money or your gifts, you have to settle one question: whose life is it? Psalm 24 and 1 Corinthians 6 answer it plainly. The earth is the Lord's, you are not your own, and …

  3. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 26, 2026 · 17 min read

    The Letter on the Altar: Isaiah 37 to 39 on Trusting God With Your Days

    … 38 opens with a different kind of threat. No army this time. Just a diagnosis, delivered by the prophet himself. "Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover" (Isaiah 38:1, NIV). …

  4. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 28, 2026 · 13 min read

    Children Yet to Be Born: Deuteronomy 6 and Psalm 78 on Passing Faith to the Next Generation

    … 6:9, NIV). The doorframe was the place you passed every time you went in or out. The gate was where the town met to do business and settle disputes. God's words were meant to be visible at home and in public, …

  5. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 19, 2026 · 18 min read

    Hired Hands Don't Sleep Well: Proverbs 1-3 and Trusting God in Every Detail of Life

    … father gets specific. He walks through life one area at a time and shows that nothing is outside of God's care. The heart comes first "My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart" …

  6. Article · Stewardship of Life · Nov 1, 2026 · 14 min read

    Before I Formed You: Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1 on Stewarding a Life You Did Not Write

    … argue with Jeremiah's resume. He went back further, to a time before Jeremiah had a resume at all. Before you were formed, I knew you. David had arrived at the same place by a different road. In Psalm 139 he …

  7. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 31, 2026 · 14 min read

    A Mere Handbreadth: Psalm 39 and the Prayer to Know How Fleeting Life Is

    … steward manages what belongs to someone else for a limited time, and Psalm 39 presses hard on both halves of that sentence. The psalm does not leave us in gloom, though. In the middle of it, David asks the …

  8. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 29, 2026 · 13 min read

    Still Tending the Sheep: 1 Samuel 16 and the God Who Looks at the Heart

    … is over. If you have been mourning something for a long time, it may be worth asking whether God is saying to you what He said to Samuel. The oil is ready. There is a place to go. He has already chosen what …

  9. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 28, 2026 · 15 min read

    The Robe and the Cloak: Genesis 37 to 39 on Stewarding a Life Through Betrayal

    … from her and held on to it as evidence against him. Both times, someone took what Joseph was wearing and used it to tell a lie about him. Both times, he ended up in a hole: first an empty cistern, then an …

  10. Article · Stewardship of Life · Jul 12, 2026 · 11 min read

    The Unlikely Steward: What Judges 3 to 5 Teaches Leaders About Glory, Hope, and the Open Hand

    … slow, the past too loud. You have read that list so many times you mistake it for a verdict. Judges 3 to 5 reads that same list and calls it a job description. Across three chapters God raises up deliverers, …

  11. Article · Stewardship of Life · Jul 28, 2026 · 11 min read

    The Two Faces of Pride: Why Your Success May Be More Dangerous Than Your Fear

    … outside. But Dana was not counting anymore. For the first time in a long time she was only feeding people, and she was free, and she understood at last that she had never once been the owner of that table. She …

  12. Article · Stewardship of Life · Oct 27, 2026 · 14 min read

    Work It and Take Care of It: Genesis 1 and 2 on the First Job God Gave

    … by stewardship. Before we talk about stewarding money, time, influence, or a family, we have to ask three questions. Who are we? Whose world is this? And what were we put here to do? Genesis answers all three …

  13. Article · Stewardship of Life · Feb 25, 2026 · 12 min read

    The Call Sheet: Exodus 4 to 6 on Feeling Unworthy to Lead

    … Quiet skepticism. The doubts crept back in. But this time, he didn’t argue with them. He let them remind him of something truer: This was never about his adequacy. It was about obedience. Weeks later, someone …