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My, there’s a lot in today’s lesson scripture!  Maybe my sense of this abundance comes from the way in which 2 Corinthians 9 describes God’s abundant grace in calling upon us to emulate him in this regard.  Here’s today’s lesson:
6 The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one [...]

      When I was a little girl, my family would travel to my Grandmother and Grandfather’s home and eat the noon-day meal with them on Sunday.  This meal, or should I say feast, was a big deal and everything about it needed to be properly prepared to my Grandmother’s standards. This included setting the table [...]

     When our children were small, family vacations were times that they relished.  It was a time for them to get away, do something fun and they looked forward to having an opportunity to spend their saved allowances on whatever treasure their heart desired. They also knew, from previous vacations, that if their funds were [...]

     Today’s lesson speaks to us about being present and “paying attention to God”.  It is easy to be focused and pay attention to God when we offer up our prayers to Him as individuals, but do we become distracted when we gather together and worship Him as “one body”?  Are we more intent on [...]

Maxie Dunnam writes, “According to Jesus, the cost of discipleship is losing our lives in order that we might find them.”  This is the paradox of our faith:  that we must die to this world in order to find eternal life — abundant life.  If we are to be true followers of Christ, we must [...]

Yesterday’s key verse was Luke 12:22:
“Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.”
This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t work to clothe, feed and house ourselves — it doesn’t mean that we should live recklessly and not try to exercise and maintain [...]

Fellow Class Mates,
I know many of you are in leadership positions, whether you admit it or not,  and I wanted to share the following email devotional I received with you. It summarizes servanthood leadership at its best.  Enjoy.  
The qualifications for being a leader do not consist solely of sitting behind a desk and barking out orders [...]

I think the lottery winner example in this chapter does highlight something that I have learned in my practice. There is no limit to how much you can spend. It doesn’t matter how much money you make. Whether you earn $2,000 a month or $20,000, if you don’t have control over your spending habits and [...]

“Our opportunities on earth to do great things for God go by so quickly.”  
As a class, we’ve spoken many times throughout the years about listening and taking advantage of opportunities to serve God by reaching out to others. In reading this chapter, I was reminded of the many generous people in our Sunday School class, our church, and [...]

Figure:  A tithe is ten percent of your income.
Fact:  More than that is an offering.
I’ll confess that I should give more — each year I do the same thing we all do at this time — think and prayer and then write down a weekly or monthly number and pledge to make that my monetary [...]