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In a world quick to criticize, God calls us to build each other up with unity, endurance, and encouragement.

The more we believe a warning, the more it changes our actions. If the car makes a funny noise, we think, “Hmm, that’s odd.” Now, the elevator makes a funny noise and our adrenaline immediately starts flowing. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie brings us words of insight and warning about what’s to come during God’s Last Days plan. It’s information that gets us excited, but it’s information that some may ignore to their peril. Let’s listen and check ourselves.

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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Throughout Scripture, we see incredible examples of God answering prayer in dramatic ways. So, does God still respond to prayer in the same way? Dr. Robert Jeffress examines the Old Testament story of Elijah that reveals the secret to unleashing God’s power in your life.

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“One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.” —Proverbs 11:24

Scripture calls us to be both wise savers and generous givers—but holding those two together can feel like a tension. How do we avoid fear on one side and foolishness on the other? Dr. Shane Enete joins us today to show how these two principles actually go hand in hand.

Dr. Shane Enete is an Associate Professor of Finance at Biola University and founded the Biola Center for Financial Planning. He is also the author of the book Whole Heart Finances: A Jesus-Centered Guide to Managing Your Money with Joy.

John Wesley famously wrote, “Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” It sounds simple enough, but when you sit down with a budget, the statement can feel more like a paradox than a plan. After all, how can you both save as much as you can and give as much as you can? At some point, choices must be made.

Rather than resolving the paradox with rigid rules, we encourage believers to embrace the complexity as part of the Christian life.

In the absence of clarity, many of us make rules. One common example is the “80/10/10 rule”—give 10%, save 10%, and live on the remaining 80%. While this framework may be helpful, we must also be cautious that this can risk reducing Christian stewardship to legalism.

The Christian life is a paradox. Christ Himself is a paradox—fully God and fully man. When we encounter a paradox, we shouldn’t flatten it into a rule. Instead, we’re invited into a relationship with God and to walk with Him in the tension.

So how do we approach the paradox of saving and giving without rigid formulas? We should think of stewardship more as an art rather than a science. Just as Jesus used metaphors—such as sheep, seeds, trees, and vines—to describe the mysteries of the Kingdom, we too can use metaphors to navigate the complexity of money.

Art allows us to co-create with God, and it moves us from rule-keeping to relationship, from legalism to a life that draws us closer to Him and to one another.

One compelling metaphor is water. Water is life-giving when it flows, but when it stagnates, it becomes toxic. In the same way, money is meant to flow—received from God and passed on to bless others.

Of course, saving is still essential—as it’s like a reservoir that ensures water can flow steadily—but the point is not the reservoir itself. It’s the flow that revitalizes both the giver and those who receive.

The call to “save all you can, give all you can” is not a puzzle to be solved but a paradox to be lived. By resisting the urge to reduce it to rigid formulas and instead embracing stewardship as a creative act with God, we discover a more life-giving way to approach money. The flow is what matters. That’s what brings life.

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Dr. Ken Wilgus encourages parents to deliberately work their way out of the parenting role by the time their child is 18, and instructs them to see their teenagers as young adults, not large children. He offers tips on how to progressively give your teen more responsibility, along with examples of how to have difficult conversations on a range of topics, from music choices to dating.

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Christians have an inner conflict. They are fighting against the desires of the flesh, which are against the desires of the Holy Spirit. In this message, Pastor Lutzer describes three images that show what it means to walk in the Spirit: a cross, a road, and a garden. What does it practically mean to walk in the Spirit?

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Today on Bold Steps … Pastor Mark Jobe shows us how to break the slump we’re in. As Christians we have a tendency to believe that following Jesus will make our lives more comfortable.  And so, when that doesn’t happen, we often revert back to our old ways of doing things. Mark is going to be walking us through Psalm 100 … and showing us how we can turn things around.

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