Pastor Ford will be making an important connection for us today.  He’s going to show us that money is always connected to the Master.  And as followers of Jesus, He is our Master.  We cannot separate our money from Him.

As followers of Jesus, we sometimes attach the ideas of poverty and spirituality to each other.  But today, Pastor Ford will help us understand that those two descriptions aren’t synonomous and they don’t belong together.  He explains that his job is to separate those two terms for us.  And our job is to interpret what he’s saying, while digging into the scriptures to determine whether or not he’s telling us what God’s Word says.

As we continue to look at the reasons God gives us money, we’ll see today how God wants us to line our decisions up with His will for us in order for us to fulfill our destiny.  And that includes our decisions about to handle our money.

Today, Pastor Ford will explain that our salvation through Jesus can actually be described in financial terms.  Through His sacrifice, Jesus became the investment.  And as He redeems us, we become the dividends of His investment.

Isn’t it amazing how people who generally don’t get along, can find a way to do it when it comes to not getting along with you?  Isn’t it amazing that people who don’t like each other, can find a common ground when it’s time to come against you?  These are just a few of the observations that Pastor Ford makes today as we continue our study about criticism from the book of Nehemiah.

As Pastor Ford continues to encourage us to be wise stewards of the money God has blessed us with, he will explain that we can maximize our money  by taking advantage of wise investment strategies.  We should have our money working for us, instead of working against us.  We work for our money, so now that we’ve earned it, we need to learn how to make our money work for us.

As we continue to look at the story of the unjust steward that we read about in Luke 16, we’ll learn that Jesus was definitely not commending his dishonesty.  But rather, He was commedning  the fact that the steward did something that demonstrated he was handling his money wisely.

Pastor Ford will explain today one way in which the children of darkness are more wise with their money than the children of light are, because they plan for the future.  He’ll help us understand that it’s not the amount of money that you make, but rather your attitude towards it that makes the difference.

As we continue this study from Luke 16, about how to manage money wisely, Pastor Ford will explain the difference between needs, wants, and desires.  If we can learn the difference between those, then we’ll be on our way to learning to maximize our money.

As we begin to look at the story of the dishonest steward in Luke 16, Pastor Ford will explain how the children of darkness can sometimes be wiser than the children of light when it comes to handling their money.