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  1. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 17, 2026 · 15 min read

    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.

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

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

    … "Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you." (Leviticus 25:36, NIV). The point of that law was not to forbid all lending. It was to keep a …

  3. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Nov 1, 2026 · 14 min read

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

    … they are afraid of what they will see. Proverbs says the fear is more dangerous than the facts. You cannot steward what you will not look at. Knowing the condition of your flocks today might mean knowing what …

  4. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 30, 2026 · 14 min read

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

    … that conclusion: "Don't be afraid." (1 Kings 17:13, NIV). Fear is the natural partner of scarcity. When resources run low, fear takes over the planning and insists the handful is all there will ever be. But the …

  5. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 27, 2026 · 13 min read

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

    … end. "If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last …

  6. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 30, 2026 · 14 min read

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

    … for a shadow's length of days. That is not a reason for fear. It is a reason for freedom. When you stop treating your possessions as permanent and personal, you can enjoy them without clinging and share them …

  7. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 29, 2026 · 14 min read

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

    … treasury filled. The answer to Solomon's drift is not to fear blessing. It is to stay close to God's word while you are blessed. Read it every day. Let it set your limits. Let it remind you who put the wisdom …

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

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

    … bring peace. The larger savings account does not end the fear. The success we chased does not satisfy, and we realize we were trusting the wrong thing. A conscience that still works is a gift. It is God's …

  9. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 29, 2026 · 14 min read

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

    … wealth rarely gives the joy it promised. It mostly gives fear. Most of us will never steal a bar of gold. But we know the path. We see something we want, we keep looking until we feel we deserve it, we take it …

  10. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 28, 2026 · 12 min read

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

    … lean season, and she had lived through enough of them to fear the next one. But Tom was not finished. "The shelter on Fifth Street called yesterday. They're feeding the same families at night, and their shelves …

  11. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 27, 2026 · 12 min read

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

    … Abram's trip to Egypt in Genesis 12 had not gone well. Fear had led him to lie about his wife, and he left under a cloud. Now he returned to the place where he had worshiped before, and he called on God again. …

  12. Article · Stewardship of Resources · Oct 17, 2026 · 11 min read

    The Bronze David Never Used: 2 Samuel 8 and 9

    … the work needed, and I have called it wisdom when it was fear. Teach me to dedicate the best of what you put in my hands. Let me gather for a work I may never see finished, and let me be glad that someone else …