Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

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

Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.