The Outdoor Channel filmed 10 episodes of its survival show, "The Best Defense," in College Station recently.
The series explores several disaster situations ordinary citizens could be confronted with, including pandemic events, localized weather, economic collapse, earthquakes, fires, chemical spills and terrorism, said Emmy award-winning executive producer Tim Cremin.
If you have read this blog much then you know that Mary and I are involved with Crown Financial Ministries. Crown is a 10 week small group Bible study that teaches Biblical financial principals. One of the 10 weeks covers the subject of giving.
Today Vince Antonucci posted a blog entry about giving that I think is worth reading. In this post he offers an observation that I have missed over the 10+ years of leading Crown.
"we're challenged to excel at giving. Not just to give, or even give generously, but to excel at giving generously, to be great at it."
He goes on to say that
"And the scary part, for those of us who don't excel at giving, is that we're taught that this is the test of whether our love for God and others is sincere"
Now, I firmly believe that you should start by giving generously to your local church, but you should not stop there. If you have a problem with giving to 'religion' then you should start giving generously to something or someone in need (and you should work to find a church that you can give generously to).
Does your bank statement show that you excel at giving (1 Timothy 6:18-19)?
"Crown Financial Ministries®, founded in 1976, is an interdenominational ministry dedicated to equipping people around the world to learn, apply, and teach biblical financial principles…and help ignite True Financial Freedom around the globe."
Stuff Christians Like has figured out how powerful God is.
Considering that this is probably a question philosophers and theologians have struggled with for thousands of years, that’s pretty nice of me. Who knew one day a random blogger would figure it out and share it for free. What can I say? I’m a giver.
So here it is:
God is slightly less powerful than Mutton Hollow Chevy.