Preaching on Stewardship: Discern Three Meaningful Sermon Themes in Less than an Hour
Stewardship preaching can be full of angst because it seems so much is at stake. However, the focus on outcome moves our sermons away from the true needs of our congregations. This stewardship guide will help you reframe your stewardship preaching with a process you can complete in an hour, dozens of scriptures verses, and an example of how the process can be applied. May it encourage you in this stewardship season.
The Uncomfortable Relationship Between Preacher, Stewardship, & Congregation: 4 Revealing Conversations
During stewardship season we preach to our parishioners about the need to offer their time, talent, and treasure.
But we preachers need a different conversation.
We need a frank, "backstory" conversation about our personal dependence on parishioners' donations, and the ways money affects our relationships with parishioners and colleagues and our capacity to preach with our whole selves.
A Stewardship Sermon Series on Psalm 50:14 (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second of a two-part blog series , “A Four-Week Stewardship Sermon Series on Ps. 50:14..” The sermon series is titled “To Know God Is to Thank God.”
Psalm 50:14: “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and make good your vows to the Most High.”
Week One: Offer to God
Week Two: A Sacrifice of Thanksgiving
Week Three: Make Good Your Vows
Week Four: To the Most High
A Four-Week Stewardship Sermon Series on Ps. 50:14
This four-week sermon series on stewardship brings an oft-referenced verse to life by closely examining its meaning. Read on for ideas to preach this stewardship season.
Using Money for Good: Preaching Tips & Tools to Grow Conscious, Ethical Consumers (A Guest Post)
It’s rather surprising we don’t find ourselves preaching a lot about money since fully 1/3 of the parables are about money and one in ten verses in the Gospels are connected to money. Getting money situated in its right relationship with our lives, and the world around us, is an important spiritual topic. And we need to tackle it.
"Preaching God's Economy": A Panel Discussion Hosted by Faith+Finance
To help the people in our pews deal with the very real challenges, impacts, and opportunities of their money, we have to find a way to have difficult conversations about finance. Preaching about money is a good start. Listen in on this panel discussion to discover how you might approach these conversations in your own church.
Preaching on money and finances: the Church's role in shaping our economy (A Guest Post)
Money shapes all of life. We—and our congregants—need to think about how we spend our money, how we invest our money, and how we relate to our money. As uncomfortable as these topics are for preachers, I believe we need to be willing to put our personal anxieties aside and walk into the deep waters where our parishioners live to launch some hard conversations. Our people desperately need that from us, and the Church must become a place where these necessary conversations can find a home.
Preaching God's Economy When People are Afraid
People are being laid off and are un- or under-employed. Government assistance is capricious. Food insecurity, especially with the need to feed school-aged children who won’t receive school meals, is getting desperate. And for preachers, stewardship season is around the corner. How do we dare talk about money and finances this fall?
There’s a ’T’ Missing from Your Time, Talent, & Treasure Stewardship Sermons
The three T’s of stewardship are treasure, time, and talent. But perhaps there should be a fourth.
2 False Premises When Preaching a Stewardship of Time—and One Question to Ask Instead
When preaching on the stewardship of time, it can be tempting to preach either scarcity or sentimentality. Neither helps our parishioners. There is one question, however, that can.
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