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Beyond the Tithe: Faith and Money Practices
A fresh and Spirit-led approach to intentional, faith-filled finances.
About this Course
Discover how your financial life can reflect your faith. Through Scripture, reflection, and practical tools, this self-paced course equips you to take your next faithful step with money.
What You’ll Be Able to Do:
What if your money habits could reflect your deepest values?
What if your faith shaped not just your giving—but your spending, saving, worries, and money beliefs?
Many Christians feel stuck or uneasy when it comes to money. It can feel like our financial lives are disconnected from our spiritual lives: reduced to tithing and budgeting, instead of being fully redefined by God’s presence on a deep, daily level. This course opens up a different conversation.
Beyond the Tithe: Faith and Money Practices is a self-paced, Scripture-centered course for people of faith who want to explore what it means to engage with money in a way that is transformatively spiritual, practical, and personal. Through biblical stories, reflection prompts, and actionable practices, you’ll discover how to invite God into your financial life—and respond with integrity, creativity, and trust.
Modules
Welcome
Get oriented to the course, meet your instructor, download the interactive handbook, and more.
Why Connect Faith & Money?
- Discover why connecting faith and money in all areas of our lives is part of our call as Christian disciples and stewards.
- Reflect on what intrigues you and what gives you pause about this approach.
- Ask for God’s guidance as you journey through this course.
Is Receiving Better Than Giving?
- See a beloved parable from a new perspective.
- Understand why being a “good receiver” is the foundation of being a good steward.
- Recall and give thanks for the unexpected ways you’ve received.
Who Owns It, Really?
- Reflect on who really owns the things you “own.”
- Give thanks for all God has entrusted to your care.
- Contemplate how God would have you steward all that God has entrusted to your care.
What Are You Fussing About?
- Name your financial worries.
- Hear God’s promises for you in the midst of those worries.
- Decide on an action you can take to remind yourself of God’s promises as worries creep up.
What’s Your Money Story?
- Unearth your money story.
- Connect your money story to the biblical story.
- Trust in God continuing with you in your story.
What Happened to Zaccheaus?
- Dwell on the times you have experienced God’s presence.
- Watch how one person’s experience of God’s presence shifted his relationship with money.
- Open yourself up to experiencing God’s transformative presence in your financial life.
What Must I Do?
- Meditate on God’s love for you with all five senses.
- Notice, wonder, and reflect on a popular biblical text about money.
- Consider God’s invitation to you from this bible passage.
Where Do I Go From Here?
- Contemplate what next steps you might take to explore faith and money.
- Pray for God’s leading and guidance.
- Make a plan for a next step.
Completing the Course
Find out your next steps as you complete the course. You'll also be encouraged to submit feedback about your course.
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- Modules:
10 Modules
- Format:
Self-Paced, On-Demand
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Get to Know Your Instructors
Grace Duddy Pomroy
Director of the Stewardship Leaders Program, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Grace Duddy Pomroy is the Director of the Stewardship Leaders Program at Luther Seminary. She’s a lay, millennial stewardship leader, speaker, and financial educator based in Allyn, WA. She is the co-author of the stewardship book, Embracing Stewardship: How to Put Stewardship at the Heart of Your Congregation’s Life, as well as author of the free 2013 ELCA stewardship resource, “Stewards of God’s Love.” Her latest book, Funding Forward: A Pathway to More Sustainable Models for Ministry, was just released September 2024. Grace is also a consultant with Relèven, a charitable organization that lovingly preserves, restores, and repurposes under-utilized churches into community hubs and affordable housing.
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Listen deeply, name God’s presence in the midst of everyday life, and form life-giving relationships across all dimensions of diversity—both within and beyond the church.
Through mutual relationships with the neighbors among whom you’re hosted, join in acts of compassion, justice, and reconciliation as a witness to the ministry of Jesus—especially in places of suffering and despair.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What can I expect when I take an Academy course?
Academy courses consist of 6-10 lessons or modules, each walking you through the “know, be, do” learning framework. You’ll learn some new information with instructor videos and other resources (know). You’ll engage in a spiritual practice that will help you develop your faith around the topic (be). Then, you’ll be asked to apply what you’ve learned through activities completed online or in the “real world” (do).
How long will it take me to complete a course?
Each module is designed to take 15-45 minutes. Some learners complete the course in as little as one day. Some do a module a day or even a module a week. We suggest allowing some time between modules to process what you are learning, but not so much time that you lose momentum.
What resources are available if I’m a group leader?
Each course includes a flexible leader’s guide with multiple pathways for group facilitation. You’ll find thought-provoking discussion questions and practical activities that connect faith with daily life, designed to work with whatever preparation time you have available. These resources equip you to foster meaningful discipleship experiences that meet your community where they are.
What do I need to know about the free private online social group?
The private online group allows you to connect with others. Because our courses don’t have a required start or stop date, you will encounter others in different places in the course and even in different courses altogether. This is by design. Feel free to interact as much or as little as you like.
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