Stewardship

The biblical principle of stewardship applies directly to the oversight of church properties. As Scripture teaches, “Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful” (I Corinthians 4:2). How can we “prove faithful” in church property stewardship?  The responsibility feels heavy to church leaders who are currently facing declining…

Have you ever heard a sermon on retirement or saving for retirement? Me neither. According to Teresa Ghilarducci in Rescuing Retirement, America is facing a DIY retirement, economic, and moral crisis. She warns elder poverty or near poverty is the devastating result of this “Great-Depression-like…watershed moment” in America because millions of people won’t have enough money…

When he left home, my Granddad Bouchelle started digging postholes in the rocky soil of central Texas for a $1 a 10-hour day during the depression. After WWII he took his young wife and baby son, my dad, to West Texas and started farming 80 acres he bought off his father-in-law with a bank loan….

The “Parable of the Talents” found in Matthew 25: 14-30, while multifaceted and deep in its meaning, seems to point out how we are to be good stewards of the earthly gifts God has given to us.  In the story, a property owner has three servants whom he entrusted with different sums of money ranging from…