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Stewardship Narrative Series – Orient Ourselves Fully to God
Sunday, October 26, 2014 Proper 25 , Matthew 22:34-46 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. This is the first and greatest commandment. There is one simple thing we can do to grow closer to God: orient ourselves fully to God. Orient […]
Continue ReadingA walking case study for the mindset of scarcity,tied up into a financial and spiritual pretzel
Stewardship Narrative Series Sunday, November 10, 2013 Proper 27 – Luke 20: 27-38 Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive. When I was a sophomore in college, I became a religion major. I studied the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament from the […]
Continue ReadingGod, I thank you that I am not like other people
Stewardship Narrative Series Sunday, October 27, 2013 Proper 25 – Luke 18:9-14 God, I thank you that I am not like other people… I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income What if we were all like this Pharisee? Perhaps the annual financial campaign would produce many more pledges and […]
Continue ReadingRector’s Stewardship Letter
Dear friends in Christ, From the day I came to St. Martin-in-the Fields to be interviewed, I have been swept off my feet by what a treasure this place is in God’s kingdom. There are going to be many things we need to do during this period of transition which you will be hearing more […]
Continue ReadingStewardship Reflection- Where your treasure is
by Jordan Haynie “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” If Jesus were looking at me, he’d probably think my heart was in textbooks, chips and salsa, and gas for trips to my internship parish. But it’s not about the amount of money we give to the church, necessarily. Even if I […]
Continue ReadingStewardship Reflection- Control & Stewardship – 2 ends of a teeter-totter
by Paula Jefferson After much whining, my parents agreed that my older sister should split her paper route with the 8-year-old kid sister. 65 folks received their paper, 6 days per week, from a very serious entrepreneur. On Fridays, I collected the 75¢ subscription price from customers (well, the ones who remembered to pay!) and […]
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