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

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

But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

From beginning to end, Scripture repeatedly emphasizes God's ownership of everything: "To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it" .When I grasp that I'm a steward, not an owner, it totally changes my perspective.

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