God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

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.

Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.

Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?

Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.