Biblical principles for handling money—stewardship, giving, saving, debt, and contentment.
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11035. Cryptocurrency investing is one of those subjects where Christians want a verse and there is not one, which means the answer has to be built from principles rather than proof texts. Bitcoin did not exist when the New Testament was written, and neither did index funds, mortgages or pensions. What Scripture does address…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11034. Student loans raise a genuine question of conscience for believers, because Scripture has strong things to say about debt and yet many young Christians cannot train for the work God has given them without borrowing. This question comes to me most often from American readers, where the sums involved are frankly alarming, but…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11033. Saving for retirement troubles some Christians because it looks suspiciously like the rich fool in Luke 12, who built bigger barns and heard God call him a fool that same night. Others never think about it at all, and then arrive at seventy dependent on adult children who cannot afford it. Both responses…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11032. Asking how much is enough money is one of the few financial questions the Bible answers directly, and the answer is uncomfortable enough that most of us prefer to keep the question vague. We are far more willing to ask how to earn well, give wisely or invest sensibly. Those are good questions….
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11004. Christian giving is one of the few subjects where almost everyone agrees in principle and disagrees in practice. We all know we should be generous. Most of us give rather less than we imagine we do, and almost nobody wants the sermon. So let me try to make the case honestly, without guilt-driven…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11003. Ask about Christian tithing in most evangelical churches and you will get a confident answer: ten per cent, off the top, and the Bible says so. Ask for the New Testament chapter and verse that requires it of the Church, and the room usually goes quiet. I want to handle this carefully, because…