Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.

Are you winning the battle against materialism?

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

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

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