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.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

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

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

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