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Believe it or not, there’s an active ingredient for Christian living. Although it’s not as high a priority today, for the early church it was indispensable.

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Cheerful giving is the Gospel.

It’s an emblem of God’s happy plan of redemption through Christ Jesus. To restore us, God didn’t hold back with a grimace; He joyfully went all-in.

That’s giving. That’s God.

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Some people gain notoriety for what they didn’t do. For instance, Pythagoras didn’t discover the Pythagorean Theorem. People had been using it for at least a thousand years before he was even born. Pythagoras just named it!

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Thanks to the generosity of God’s people, Barnabas Foundation recorded an unprecedented volume of giving in 2021, breaking all previous years’ records for gifts received and distributed through the Foundation.

In total, Barnabas Foundation clients distributed more than $97.6 million in 2021 to 2,309 charitable organizations close to their hearts. This is a 21% percent increase over 2020 distributions, which previously held the record for giving in a single year.

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The Impact of Your Stewards Fund Dollars Gratitude is overflowing from churches, ministries and other charities that benefited from your generosity in 2021. Leaders share story after story of God’s provision and how new opportunities for ministry came as a result of your Stewards Fund giving.

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Here’s a secret: Generous people find it fun to discover new ways to give.

This joyful pursuit of new opportunities is one of the reasons they keep giving! But for the endless varieties of giving, there remains a single source: love.

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Pop quiz. Who said, “Money is a shelter”?

If you think it’s Bernie Madoff or an infamous hedge fund manager, guess again, because it’s Solomon!

Shelters protect us from the howling wind and the blazing sun. When money is a shelter, it can be used to shield us from homelessness and starvation. That’s a good thing!

But money’s shelter has obvious limits.

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Know a person who “has it all”? Got a name? A face?

What else can be said about a person who only gets green lights and open doors? It seems they always have more followers, dollars and points than you.

Deep down, you don’t really believe any singular person has it all. So, why do we still let that person bug us?

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Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” John 1:43, NIV

Line up!

This directive isn’t only for grade-schoolers who line up to go to lunch or the bathroom.

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It’s an unfortunate, common tale that far too many of us have experienced firsthand. A loved one passes away, and in the aftermath, family chaos ensues. Bickering. Broken relationships. Legal battles. But there’s a simple tactic for saving our children from a world of hurt when we go to be with the Lord.

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