Resources by Topic: Money and Giving

Question from a reader: What do you think is the best curriculum out there for teaching Christian financial principles? Is there any curriculum based on your books?

A couple months ago, I read a review written by David Wills about my book Managing God’s Money. David is a great brother, and the president of the National Christian Foundation, the largest Christian grant-making foundation in the world.

An alarming number of children from Christian homes grow up grasping for every item they can lay their hands on. Children raised in such an atmosphere—which includes most children in America—are afflicted with a killer disease called “affluenza.”    

Focus on the Family has a new book out titled The 21 Day Dad’s Challenge: Three Weeks to a Better Relationship with your Kids. After watching Courageous, men all over the U.S. will emerge from movie theaters wanting to be better dads, and this is an excellent next step.

It seems clear to me that when Jesus says “where your treasure is, your heart will be also,” he is connecting the two in such a way to indicate they are linked together. Where treasure is placed (on earth or in Heaven), heart will follow.

I do in fact see Matthew 6 as certainly including, and actually even centering on, a promise for eternal rewards for the giving of money and possessions to the purposes of God.

These passages should simply be read, and a few observations recorded.

In this audio clip Randy Alcorn answers the question, "Do financial advisors have a unique opportunity for ministry?"

In this audio clip Randy Alcorn answers the question, "What questions should we ask ourselves as we make financial decisions?"

In this audio clip Randy Alcorn answers the question, "Why don't more Bible schools teach a theology of money?"

In this audio clip Randy Alcorn answers the question, "How much of my income should I keep for my lifestyle?"

In this two minute audio clip, Randy Alcorn talks about giving sacrificially.

In this 1 minute long audio clip, Randy talks about how money and things have mass, mass exerts gravity, and gravity holds us in orbit.

In this three-minute clip, Randy talks about how power, possessions, and pleasures are legitimate objects of desire that our Creator has instilled in us, and by which he can motivates us to obedience. The evil counterattacks by tempting us to direct these legitimate desires to the wrong objects.