Goodbye World

Well, it was a brief but fun ride with The Stewardship Journey.  I’d like to say that we’re moving on to bigger and better things, or that we’ve been shut down to some dicey issues we’ve been tackling, but the real deal is that laziness has seemingly but an end to this once great blog.  [...]

SJ Weekly Devotional – Retirement

Retirement Could it be the Great American Deception? Take a quick guess at how many times the Bible talks about retirement. Would you believe only two verses (technically one) that talks about retirement   (Numbers 8:24-25) Before you get excited that the Bible talks about retirement ask yourself this question: Are you a Levitical priest? If [...]

What the Recession is For

I recently listened to John Piper’s sermon on What the recession is for. I thought it was excellent and worth passing along. He delivers a message about God’s purposes in the Recession.  Pastor John  gives 5 purposes of the Recession. 1. To Expose Sin and Bring Repentance 2. To Awaken us to World Poverty 3. To Relocate the Roots [...]

Getting Rid of Your Debt

Debt Snowball Excel tool The debt snowball is a great way to pay down debt. If you have not heard of this strategy, basically you line up your debts lowest balances to highest balances. You then figure out how much you can pay total to pay down debts. Then you begin paying minimum balances on [...]

The Crisis of Credit – Visualized

What is a “collateralized debt obligation”?  What does it mean to “securitize” debt?  We’ve all heard many of the fancy terms that supposedly got us into this financial mess, but there’s no one who seems to want to bother explaining it all.  It would probably take us about 20 posts to do a mediocre job [...]

SJ Weekly Devotional – Debt

Debt The Great Spiritual Inhibitor Last week we looked at Giving and what the Bible says about how to give.   This week we will look at Debt and what the Bible says about it. I have titled this post Debt – The Great Spiritual Inhibitor. I believe debt is often what often keeps us from [...]

Understanding the Tithe and the First Fruits

Understanding the Tithe and the First Fruits What is a Tithe and is it important? A tithe is defined as a “one-tenth” part of something or 10%. The importance of understanding the Tithe is seen in Malachi 3:8-10 as the Israelites are warned to not “rob God” by not giving 10% of the first fruits [...]

Welcome to The Stewardship Journey!

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