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s imple living for just giving. Mako Nagasawa and Gary VanderPol Urbana 12. l ive gratefully. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. …“ I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth… -Genesis 1:28ff.
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simple living for just giving MakoNagasawa and Gary VanderPol Urbana 12
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. …“I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth…-Genesis 1:28ff
Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan….23 The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. -Leviticus 25:10,23
“You are not making a gift of your possessions to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his.” – Ambrose of Milan, 340-397 A.D. It's Just Money
tom & breehsieh $52,762=median household income
13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” -Luke 16:13
We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the χαρις(grace) of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia; 2for during a severe ordeal of affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of χαρις(generosity) on their part. -II Corinthians 8:1-2