What Does Generosity Look Like for Gen Z?
How is your congregation engaging Gen Z in generosity?... Read more.
Five Easy Ways to Virtually Manage Your Church’s Finances
Time and money-saving tips... Read more.
Stewardship in the Time of Coronavirus
For many, the sense of financial vulnerability is very real right now. Read some suggestions for continuing to fund your congregation's mission during the coron... Read more.
Discovering the Power of Gratitude
In her new book Diana Butler Bass traces her evolution from being a self-described ungrateful person to discovering the power of gratitude to change her life.... Read more.
The Heart of Why People Give
A stewardship pledge is about more than just paying the pastor's salary or the church's electric bill. It's about your spiritual health and survival.... Read more.
Stewarding Congregational Wellness
While our instinct for stewarding wellness tends to be for individuals, it should also apply to the congregation as a whole. Learn how to gauge your congregati... Read more.
The Ancient Art of Thanking
Robert Hay, Jr. looks at the underestimated value of giving thanks to your church members, and how an old-fashioned hand-written note can build a stronger, more... Read more.
Cultivating God’s Expansive Generosity (Part Two)
How do you turn generosity from a thought into a behavior? In part two of his look at generosity as discipleship, Larry Strenge examines the second and third sh... Read more.
Cultivating God’s Expansive Generosity (Part One)
In part one of a two-part series, Pastor Larry Strenge shares the first of three mindset shifts he sees as being necessary for cultivating generosity.... Read more.
Forgive Us Our Debt (Part Two)
Does Good Debt = Good People? Read part two of Katherine Shaner's look at the difference God's grace can make in the way we think about our money and our debts.... Read more.
Forgive Us Our Debt (Part One)
Do our theologies suggest that balance sheets can never be the mark of our virtue, or even our value, within God’s economy?... Read more.
Understanding the Shifts in Stewardship
Over the past twenty years or so, the stewardship landscape has shifted significantly.... Read more.
Becoming Aware of Our Abundance
Bishop Erik Gronberg reflects on what he’s learned about stewardship health, given his lens as bishop in Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana.... Read more.
Leading When the Economy Falters
Every congregation is impacted by the ebbs and flows of the economy that surrounds it. Particularly when things change relatively fast, how do we respond?... Read more.
The Gift of Generosity
One of the sure markers of a steward is generosity. Not crazy, give-it-away-willy-nilly generosity, but the quiet assurance of capacity and a compassionate comm... Read more.
Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders
For the last decade, The Lilly Endowment has been offering grants to a broad collection of Christian seminaries, church bodies, and other related institutions t... Read more.
Personal Finance and the Church (Part 2)
Many of us may have been convinced by Pastor Greg Meyer’s convictions about the role of the church in personal finance, but most of us would have no idea wher... Read more.
Personal Finance and the Church (Part 1)
In the church, we have long assumed that personal finance is a skill acquired elsewhere. Like we expect people to be able to drive to church, mow their own lawn... Read more.
Defining the ‘Faith’ in Faith-Based Organizations
In his new book, God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism, David P. King takes a case-in-point look at the humanitaria... Read more.
A New Digital Home for Stewardship
In case you missed it, in the previous post, Adam Copeland shared that he’s moving on from the Center for Stewardship Leaders in order to pursue a new voc... Read more.
Being Good Stewards of Time
Adam Walker Cleaveland on the stewardship of summertime.... Read more.
