You can’t take it with you, but you CAN send it on ahead. This little principle, known as “The Treasure Principle” and the title of a little book by Randy Alcorn, has been a huge inspiration to me in the past year. After reading the book, I literally couldn’t wait to give away more money.
“See that you excel in the grace of giving”, Paul instructs us in 2 Cor. 8:7. “Not that I am looking for a gift, but for what may be credited to your account,” he says later in Phil. 4:17...
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Well, thank you for asking. I have had a hard day…my kids are giving me a headache, the cat just tore the sofa and I just found out that I can’t upgrade to an iPhone until October. I can deal with the kids, headache, cat and sofa but not being able to upgrade my phone is really causing me problems. I have something inside of me that’s telling me that I need to keep up with the Jones’!
All my friends have one and the 2 year old device I have can hardly send up smoke signals quick enough. You...
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Sound familiar? In just the past two days, I’ve heard this cry from two ministries. In one case, it was after a meeting with an ED and two of his board members about their upcoming event. If you know about Transformational Giving fundraising dinners, you know they’re all about ‘casting the vision.’ So it’s, um, kind of a big problem if three ministry leaders, as I witnessed during that meeting, have differing views of the vision and type of organization they want to be. I followed...
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Several months back, Mission Increase Foundation taught on the topic of mulberrys. You know, those neat little throw-away microsites that are designed for one specific purpose (check out my post from June 24 to read more about them). Well, I recently received an email from one of our faithful workshop attendees who took us up on the challenge to create his own mulberry around a specific theme. It’s so good I wanted to share it with you.
The mulberry was created by Tim Garrett with...
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Years ago I worked in the development department for a large rescue mission in Los Angeles where we would serve turkey dinners to 10,000 homeless people the day before Thanksgiving. As you can imagine, these events were massive undertakings, and hundreds of volunteers signed up months in advance to help us pull it off.
We rented a parking lot off site and shuttled volunteers to the Mission to manage the traffic. On the shuttle rides back to their cars, the volunteers were fired up...
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