Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.

You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.