If you asked ten Christians, "Where should I give my financial gifts?" Almost all would tell you, "Give first to your local church." But after that you're likely to get ten different answers depending on each person's passion and giving history. Older Christians tend to lean heavily toward missions, Bible translation, large capital projects and Christian education while younger Christians generally favor clean water and social justice ministries. And if you look only to the N

There's almost no area of stewardship for Christians that has had more influence on inheritance than the Old Testament. Stories of leaving everything one owns to their children with the largest portion going to the oldest son are in many books of the Old Testament. God in Numbers 27:8-11 even laid out how an inheritance should be administered. If these Patriarchs of the Bible, loved by God passed their wealth on to their families, case closed! And Proverbs 13:22a says, "A goo

If you’ve heard, “I just don’t care” from your kids, or other young Christians about things you think Christians really ought to care about deeply, you’re not alone. A few years ago, I was having dinner with a few great young people – students at a local Christian college. We were talking about same-sex marriage and what the Bible says about same-sex, sex. At the end of our extensive discussion, one of the young men said, “I just don’t care – it’s just not a big deal to me, o

Decades ago my wife Susan and I began receiving phone calls from our married children who had recently had babies asking about baptism. Here was their dilemma: All three of our sons-in-laws were raised in covenantal, calvinistic churches where they were baptized as infants. Now their parents really wanted their grandchildren baptized as well. Similarly, our children were baptized as infants. However, we raised them from middle school on believing that baptism was only for old