In this episode of Stewardship Leader, we’re featuring another leader in

the stewardship spotlight. We’re talking with Amber George, the Director of

Kingdom Living Ministry and the Operations Pastor at Crossroads Church in

Fredericksburg, VA, about her journey from a well-paying government job to

full-time ministry. Her stewardship and generosity story will encourage

you, and her perspective and wisdom will inspire you!

The Christian Stewardship Network has always been about supporting church

leaders and stewardship champions whose calling is to teach and equip God’s

people with his financial principles. For the past 20+ years, we’ve been

coming together at the CSN Annual Forum. This has always been a special

time together, but not nearly enough to grow and help one another build

healthy stewardship ministries in our churches. With the launch of our CSN

membership site, we’re aiming to change all that.

In this episode of Stewardship Leader we are interviewing Ken Schafer, a stewardship pastor at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, TN. Ken’s personal testimony and his journey of stewardship and generosity have been refined through a business interest, working for Ramsey Solutions, and as a stewardship pastor. We hope you will be inspired and helped through his shared experience.

In Acts 10:35, Paul quotes Jesus as having said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” That’s a short but extremely profound and revealing statement, and if you’ve ever made a gift for the right reason and from your heart you’ve experienced this truth. In this episode of Stewardship Leader, we’re talking with Todd Harper, the co-founder of Generous Giving, and April Chapman, Generous Giving’s Chief Financial Officer, about the incredible privilege we have to be generous. Their 22-Hour Journey of Generosity (JOG) event has been transforming generous givers into extravagant givers for many years, and they’d love to help you and your church community experience it for yourself.

The transition to retirement begs the question, “how can I live my best years now that I’m retired?” It’s exciting to think through the possibilities and how retirement can be reframed as a repurpose-ment of our lives, living and giving like never before. Retirement doesn’t have to be the end of our best years but rather the beginning!

No one likes to fail, especially at something as important as personal

finances. The pain of financial stress and the shame and fear that

accompany it are difficult to bear. Yet, it’s unreasonable to think you can

achieve financial success without experiencing some failures along the way.

Some degree of failure or setbacks, as much as we wish they weren’t, are

inevitable. What determines your future success is what you do after you

fail.

Stewardship Education, teaching people God's word on money and wealth, is an essential aspect of discipleship that every church should engage in. In this podcast, we talk with Chris Goulard and Dave Briggs about the Stewardship Impact Workshop and why they believe every church leader needs to attend this training. This workshop was explicitly created for church leaders to help them learn the theology of stewardship and generosity and learn how to incorporate a stewardship ministry in their church.

We cannot get through one day without seeing, hearing, or reading something about money and wealth. The world is consumed by this topic while pastors rarely talk about it. In this episode, we’re talking with John Rinehart, the founder of Gospel Patrons, about his recent poem to pastors. John believes pastors play a crucial role in teaching God’s people about money and wealth, and we couldn’t agree more.

The Scriptures provide wisdom for every area of life, including investing. Yet, it is rare to hear a sermon or teaching on the topic in The Church, and it seems pastors perceive the subject of money and wealth as too unspiritual to include in their weekend messages. Meanwhile, the world continues to guide and influence God’s people daily on how they should make, spend, and invest their money, mostly void of the Biblical principles found in God’s word. In this episode, we talk about investing with Matt Bell from Sound Mind Investing to understand the Church’s responsibility, as well as an excellent opportunity to teach God’s people how to invest according to God’s design.

We rarely use the term covet in our modern vernacular today. Is the reason because we’ve overcome the temptation to covet or is it something else? In this episode, we discuss the real danger of coveting, why God opposes it, and why it’s so important for us to resist and overcome the temptation to covet.