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10 Reasons Why Pastors Should Be Engaging Their Financial Leaders During The Coronavirus COVID-19

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“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:21 Because they have more treasure in your ministry than anyone else, who has more heart in your ministry than financial leaders?  Financial leaders understand return on investment.  They do not want their good money chasing bad ministry investments.  No one wants […]

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A Resource For Churches Who Need Help With Online Giving Because Of The Coronavirus / COVID-19

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Because of the coronavirus, I have spoken with a number of churches who cancelled services this past weekend and were either not prepared or unhappy with their online giving options.  With services going online for the foreseeable future, many are in complete scramble mode and desperately looking for adequate online giving solutions.  If this describes […]

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6 Things You Can Do To Better Manage Your Money During The Coronavirus (COVID19) And Stock Market Crash

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“When fear becomes the reigning emotion, it causes an irrationality to take hold.”  These are the words of Joseph Sangl, President/CEO of I Was Broke. Now I’m Not. and INJOY Stewardship Solutions.  Today, Joe gave an incredibly informative Facebook Live presentation on the FACTS of the Coronavirus (COVID19) and the stock market’s performance. Everyone should […]

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How These 3 Churches Grew Their Weekly Giving

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My friends at MinistryDeal.com asked three churches what kind of impact using these Giving Scripts had on their ministry. The results were amazing! Here’s what they said: “The Giving Scripts make it easy to talk about finances and people understand it’s an important part of the service” – Mike Stewart, Lead Pastor First Christian Church Urbana “The Giving Scripts have been […]

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7 Current Giving Trends In The Local Church

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It appears whenever someone writes about any trend in the local church the slant is always negative.  The sky seems to always be falling.  If you read or listen to many people surveying the church there appears to be no hope at all.  Unchurched individuals can’t stand us.  We should just baton down the hatches […]

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7 Promises God Gives People Who Tithe

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Tomorrow I have the privilege of preaching the two morning services for The Life Christian Church and their wonderful pastor Terry Smith in West Orange, NJ.  This is just a great, great church!  I will be telling my wife Sonya and I’s story of trusting God with our giving.  As part of my message I […]

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How to Grow Your Church’s Weekly Giving in 2019

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“I have never received feedback like this from stewardship teaching in 40 years of preaching. We’ve had the highest ever giving online, more givers in one week than ever before, and we had the largest, non-special offering, ever in church history.” – Mike S. I told you last week I was going to be introducing […]

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