12 Financial Mistakes You Will Live To Regret
Here are 12 all-too-common financial mistakes that people make that end up affecting the rest of their lives.
Here are 12 all-too-common financial mistakes that people make that end up affecting the rest of their lives.
A new iPhone app called MyTithe that allows you to pay your tithes or contribute offerings by using your cell phone.
Throughout the Scriptures we find admonitions to remember the poor in the land and yet there are many today who choose to ignore these passages. People tend to come up with a multitude of excuses justify their inaction, but let’s take a look at how the Bible would answer some of those common excuses.
Since tithing is definitely a principle taught in the Bible, it is absolutely shocking to hear the number of people that teach that tithing isn’t relevant for Christians today. Many of these individuals decry tithing as an “illegal and abusive practice of the Church”. They claim that if you practice tithing you are still under “Old Testament bondage”. The purpose of this article is not to identify every scripture in the Bible relating to tithing, but rather to try to refute some of the arguments commonly used to convince people that Christians don’t need to tithe.
In 1760, John Wesley gave one of his most famous and timeless sermons entitled “The Use of Money”. 250 years later, Christians and non-Christians alike are still struggling with the proper use of money. Our world is filled with individuals that consistently spend more than they earn, who give no thought to savings, and have nothing to give God – all because of their improper use of money. While the love of money has been the destruction of many, the fault doesn’t lie in money itself, but in those that use it. Learning to prudently use money is one of the marks of a good steward.
Many Christians think that they are tithing because they give 10% of their income to the church. However, the word “tithes” is plural, because there is more than just one. In fact, there were actually three different tithes set out in the Law of Moses.