HEY, THAT'S ME!

Wow, so I preached this weekend...and nobody walked out. I spoke about stewardship at my home church, and it went pretty well. It was weird, talking openly and frankly about money, challenging people to do what the Bible says about money....it was a little un-comfy, but that in and of itself was awesome.

So yeah, if you're curious, you can click HERE (Oct. 26) to listen to my 45 minute rant. I can rant though, because I'm as guilty of the things I was talking about as anyone else. I included a riveting, very basic outline of my message below. Gaze upon it in shock and wonder.... that is all for now.

I. Stewardship= Managing resources for God

II. Basic financial concepts from Scripture
A. Tithe- 10% (Matthew 23:23)
B. Save (Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 21:20)
C. Greed (I Timothy 6:9-10)
D. Debt (Romans 13:8 (NASB)).
E. Charity (Acts 2:44-47)

III. Where Are We?
A. As A Nation
2 Chron 7:13-14- God’s “Bailout plan”-
Parable of talents (Matthew 25 14-28) 0
B. As Believers
Proverbs 22:7
Proverbs 6:1-5
Louie Giglio- “Follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whomever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.”

IV. The Challenge
A. Malachi 3:6-12

JON ACUFF

So, in the spirit of change being the only consistent thing, I am once again changing directions on this blog. Or rather, I plan to actually blog, not try to figure out some stuff people might link to or want to hear, then get discouraged cuz no one does and I feel phony, and then give up on blogging and go back to life.....yeah, that sucks. I'm still doing the martial arts thing, still love it, but it's not so much the focus of my life that I can devote my whole blog to it, for crap sake.

ANyway, title line. Jon Acuff. If you haven't been to stuffchristianslike.net, go there. He's got us pegged. Seriously. We're THAT BAD. HA! He spoke at our office today, just a funny, unassuming, honest guy who just happens to share my "spiritual gift of sarcasm", except he REALLY has it, I just have moments of it....WOW. So good. His talk provided some good points to ponder, and like the good little christian I am, I had to go right back and COPY everything he said.....he said tell your story, don't write or do just what people want you to, so I am doing just that. Starting with the blog, we'll see if I can get some of that into my actual life without imploding....should be fun. A people-pleaser trying not to people-please. It's like, "Hey, I could give two craps what you think of me.......seriously, if you want two craps, I will totally get those for you, I hope that's OK.". Yeah, that's me ALL DAY.
So anyway, here we go. Maybe I'll blog a time or two now.