Dreams matter. Tomorrow's holiday honoring Martin Luther King is proof of that. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in front of over 250,000 supporters at the Lincoln Memorial. The speech was ranked the best American speech of the 20th century...
I always advise churches hold a January campaign to encourage signing up for recurring giving. Here are three reasons why you should consider this for your church. A recently released study by the Christian think tank, Grey Matter Research, found that1. 74% of evangelicals gave money to an individual local church in...
“Almost on Wall Street and in Washington got 2022 wrong.” That is the opening line of a December 27, 2022 article in the Wall Street Journal. The article was entitled “Wall Street, Fed Flopped in Trying to Predict 2022.”1. From the silly to the serious, prognosticators typically get predictions wrong....
November Cooperative Program Allocation Budget report shows impact of economic woes. That was the headline of a Baptist Press article published in early December 2022. Don’t feel bad if you missed it. It certainly isn’t a compelling headline. Even if you read it, I doubt it elicited much response. But...
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first 2023 edition of the Stewardship Journal. We are back with another issue to help you build a generosity culture based on biblical stewardship! Here is a preview of this week’s Stewardship Journal. As we begin our year, we thought it would be valuable to...
