{"id":548,"date":"2010-02-04T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:24:00","slug":"questions-about-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/questions-about-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions About Finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of <a title=\"Stewardship: Your Best Life Later, Ryan Kelly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/JAN_31_2010.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message on money<\/a>, here are some great reflection questions from Randy Alcorn about money and finances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has the degree of my giving suggested that I have recognized and embraced the full extent of Your grace in my life? Or does it suggest I need to recognize and respond to Your grace in deeper and more heartfelt ways?<\/p>\n<p>Lord, am I honoring You as owner and CEO\/CFO of the assets You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve entrusted to my care? Or am I treating You as a mere financial consultant, to whom I pay a fee? (2 percent, 10 percent, or \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6). Have I been acting as if I own the store, and You work for me, rather than recognizing that You own it and I work for You?<\/p>\n<p>Is my life revolving around You? Open my eyes, Father. What am I holding onto that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s robbing me of present joy and future reward? What am I guarding and keeping for myself that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s preventing me from having to depend wholeheartedly on You?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"31 questions to ask about money, alcorn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epm.org\/artman2\/publish\/tithing_and_giving\/31_Radical_Liberating_Questions_To_Ask_God_About_Your_Giving.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to learn more about a biblical perspective on money, make sure to check out Alcorn&#8217;s book <em><a title=\"Money, Possessions, and Eternity, by Randy Alcorn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0842353607\/desesprichur-20\" target=\"_blank\">Money, Possessions, and Eternity<\/a><\/em>. Also, we have a shorter book from Alcorn that you can pick up for free at the Resource Center titled, <a title=\"The Treasure Principle, Randy Alcorn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1590525086\/desesprichur-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Treasure Principle<\/em><\/a>. Be sure to join us for Clarus &#8217;10, where Randy Alcorn will be joining us for the weekend of April 30 &#8211; May 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message on money, here are some great reflection questions from Randy Alcorn about money&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/questions-about-finances\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}