How can a young person support the causes of God’s kingdom by way of giving? As children and young people in the church, we do not commonly have much money at our disposal. Does that also mean we don’t have much responsibility to support the kingdom by giving? What is our calling here as young […]
“Of a willing heart.” Exodus 35:5 Daily experience teaches us that privileges always involve obligations. It is therefore readily understood that he who attains the full communion of his church and the privilege of partaking of the holy supper is also called upon to share the financial burden of the church. The term […]
It is that time of year again. Thanksgiving is over and December is upon us. The Christmas season is now here. In fact, it has been here for a couple of weeks already. Even before Thanksgiving has been “celebrated”, all the stores were hanging up Christmas decorations and advertising Christmas specials. They make it hard […]
Soon it will be Christmas and we are already in the midst of the rush to buy gifts for everyone. Stop with me and let us consider this subject for a while. Do you have a problem with our custom of gift giving? Now I do not mean the problem of not knowing what to […]
Truly the spirit of Christmas is a spirit of giving! By this is not meant that the worldly practice of pouncing upon every opportunity to commercialize the most sacred of all events and use it merely for lucrative gain is the proper spirit of Christmas. Neither do we have in mind to condemn without further […]