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

Jesus Himself was criticized. He wasn't a glutton and drunkard, but He was accused of being those things. Why? Because He went to parties where people ate and drank, and some people probably were at those parties who were drunkards and gluttons. But you don't have to be sinning just because you're in in an environment of happiness.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

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

Give voluntarily. When we catch a vision of God's grace, we will give beyond our duty.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."