Getting $3000 in Ripples Made Me Sad
Back in 2013 when Bitcoin was starting to climb, I began to research and try and understand what was going on. I explored mining them or buying them but what I got really interested in…
Category: Money and Finances
Giving Money To The Church Is Not Worship
Recently I saw this on a giving card that a church handed to it’s congregants. “WE RECOGNIZE THAT FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING OUR CHURCH, IS ONE OF THE WAYS WE WORSHIP GOD.” Underneath it was all the…
Consumerism, Property, Ownership, Community and the Eucharist
The link between property and freedom is a crucial one. Free-market advocates tend to be agnostic on the question of ownership: barring external interference, an exchange is formally free even if the only thing a…
Work Makes Us Slaves
I’m not really sure if we are capable anymore of a society where people enjoy their lives and work is part of living and not done to make money so that they can live. We’ve…
Christians Shouldn’t Have Private Ownership
I’ll never understand why Christians can’t and don’t live like this.
Expecting Gratitude Makes Gifts Lose Their Giftness
Here is a problem I have run into. A scenario happens where someone is given something. Maybe it’s a gift, or your time, money, a job. It doesn’t really matter. A gift is and can…
The Difference Between Owing Someone A Favor And Owing Someone A Debt
By far the book of 2012 for me (it possibly has taken me 8 months to read it, I’m not great with history). Nevertheless, this book was phenominal and eye-opening. Debt: The First 5,000 Years…
The Shift Towards Collaborative Consumption
In the past fifty years, we have consumed more goods and services than in all previous generations put together. September 2007 is when I posted an idea I had to start sharing things. It was…
Economics is the World’s Theology
For a while I thought that I would want to go get a Masters in Economics of some sort. After seeing the kind of impact that economics has on all of our lives, my interest…
A Few Suggestions For Christians and Money
This Post will get added to my ongoing collection of thoughts of Money and the Church. All my life I’ve been raised that I should never spend money if I don’t have to, always look…
Why Giving to the Poor Is No Longer a Legitimate Christian Response
Maybe I’m skeptical, ignorant, or taking way too much liberty in writing a post like this. I’ll never know if I don’t post it though. Here is my thought; giving to the poor in our…
Shared to Be Real
We spend quite a bit of time pursuing, collecting and naming all of our possessions. We work hard so we can buy more things. We take vacation so we can get a break from all…
Everything Belongs to Everyone
I’ve been playing around with this thought for a while. After thinking about collections and how I think that they are in many ways anti-kingdom, James sent me this quote: All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact,…
Early Church Father’s Thoughts on Money and Wealth
I’m reading the book Faith and Wealth by Justo L Gonzalez. The book is basically a walk through history and a commentary on how people and eventually the church viewed wealth. It’s super heavy on…
Money and Why God Doesn’t Care
I’ve been finding myself getting more and more frustrated lately with how people spend their money. When I hear stories of 2 million dollar church building projects, 50 thousand dollar pothole fundraising campaigns, the 40…
The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded
Len linked to this article, which sent me off on a whole bunch of other reading along this topic and it has hit pretty close to home. I wrote a post a few months back…
Thoughts on Paying Pastors
I wrote this post after which gives some more thoughts on the matter. The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded Since starting theStory Joe, Darryl and I have wrestled a lot with the…
Should You Give to A Beggar?
I remember the first time I experienced a beggar on the street. It was in Toronto and he looked right at me and my friends, I was around 14 years old and he asked me…
When Sharing Gets Real
When we think of sharing we think of little kids having to share their toys. As we get older it becomes sharing the rake or lawnmower out of our shed to our neighbours. It usually…
Show me the Money
Money is this strange thing that continues to be front and center of my life whether I choose to acknowledge it or not. There are all sorts of things I want in life like freedom…