You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?”
“Sharing,” Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. “Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts.”
Percy scratched his head. “Yeah…we’ve been having conversations like that all night. I still don’t know what she’s talking about.
Tag: sharing percy-jackson ella percy-jackson-and-the-olympians heroes-of-olympus the-son-of-neptune hazel-levesque blackouts
...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.
Wess StaffordTag: children poverty stewardship need sharing caring
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
Bryant McGillTag: inspirational humanity spiritual time service spirituality community sharing caring
Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
Mother TeresaTag: compassion poverty frustration anger need waste dying sharing angry frustrated
[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.
Andy StanleyTag: money stewardship giving sharing tithing financial-planning
If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.
Andy StanleyTag: compassion christianity stewardship need giving sharing caring brother burden
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
Andy StanleyTag: fear stewardship giving sharing saving
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
Randy AlcornTag: money christianity faith stewardship hoarding giving sharing standard-of-living
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
John WesleyTag: wealth stewardship industry charity giving sharing prosperity judas-iscariot trustworthy
God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized, uneducated, unmedicated, and unfed millions. The evidence that many professing Christians have been deceived by this doctrine is how little they give and how much they own. God has prospered them. And by an almost irresistible law of consumer culture (baptized by a doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity) they have bought bigger (and more) houses, newer (and more) cars, fancier (and more) clothes, better (and more) meat, and all manner of trinkets and gadgets and containers and devices and equipment to make life more fun. They will object: Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper his people? Indeed! God increases our yield, so that by giving we can prove our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so that he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached people can be reached with the gospel. He prospers the business so that 12 percent of the world's population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.
John PiperTag: compassion stewardship greed need giving hunger starvation sharing gospel prosperity caring evangelism
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