Money & Stewardship

The Divine Call for Missionaries

Isaiah 6:8

… it cries, "Whom shall I send?" Here are multitudes of professing Christians making money, getting rich, eating the fat and drinking the sweet—is there not one to …

No Difference

Matthew 5:45

… He knows that yonder oppressive wretch will, with his wealth, go on to grind the poor, but He sends his crops the warm, genial sun and the refreshing …

Inexcusable Irreverence and Ingratitude

Romans 1:20

… a more convenient season, I will send for You—when I have more money, I will attend to religion"? Or, "When I can be religious and not lose …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… and he that has no money"—that means you! "Come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price." "Whoever will"—that …

The Man With The Measuring Line

Zechariah 2:1-5

… Christ and yet he turned out to be generous with other men's money and to be thought little better than a thief. And Despondency shakes her head …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… Her power did never lie in her wealth, nor in the eloquence of her preachers, nor in anything that comes of man. The strength of the Church is …

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… Another begins to estimate their wealth, another to calculate what per cent will die in the year. But the Lord Jesus Christ's heart was so full of …

The Holy Spirit's Threefold Conviction of Men

John 16:8-11

… A young man, for instance, has been in the service of an employer and he has embezzled money—he is convicted of the theft by process of law …

Foretastes of the Heavenly Life

Deuteronomy 1:25

… You have longed to lay up a certain amount of riches. You have said that if you could once gain a pension, you would then make yourself at …

Growth in Grace

2 Peter 3:18

… The heights of riches say, "You are not here," for the rich are often proud, too. O Humility, you are not to be found in science, for philosophy …

The Minister in These Times

… One day, this odd man of wealth, generous as he was, was so cruel as to throw a heavy bag at the poor debtor. The man was hurt …

An Unalterable Law

Hebrews 9:22

… But when He forgives, He displays the riches of His Grace on a grander scale than your finite mind can comprehend! Ten thousand sins of blackest dye, sins …

Small Things Not to Be Despised

Zechariah 4:10

… We know how the early spring comes with its buds of promise, but it takes some time before we get to the beauties of summer or the wealth …

A Clear Understanding

Matthew 13:51

… If you have received this blessing, be very grateful for it, and bless the God of Grace for giving it to you! 17. For verily I say unto …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all …

Christ's Prayer for Believers

John 17:20

… the cause of my benevolence, but my benevolence is the cause of my giving it! God does not love His people because they have faith—He loved them …

On Spiritualizing

… Deuteronomy, a second giving of the law, a second cleansing, tells the way of progress. After which Canaan is indeed reached. We go over Jordan: we know practically …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… Have there been losses in business? Are you sure, brother, that when you were making money you always used it for God as you should? Were you a …

The Water of Life

John 4:15

… That is clear from the words which follow the text, "That I thirst not, neither come here to draw." She was giving a material meaning to a spiritual …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… I will support a man to preach—I will find the money and you will find the man." I told him I must have him speak, too, as …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… the strong! Oh, blessed poverty that gives me a lien upon Jehovah's wealth! Oh, blessed wretchedness that issues in beatitude and conducts me to the happiness and …

Heedful Hearing

Luke 8:18

… It is not possible that the Gospel should have shined on those eyes without either giving light or increasing the blindness. I do not believe that any man …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… Let us look out of self and its poverty to Jehovah and his riches of mercy. And with him is plenteous redemption. He can and will redeem all …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… Fear ye, whosoever ye be, that do wrong the poor; you have power and wealth, and the favour of the judges, but they have the strongest weapons of …

Luminous Words

1 Peter 4:1-3

… Now, as nations increase their wealth by mutual commerce, so do Christians increase their Grace by a sweet fellowship in the good things with which God has entrusted …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… Then could I have sung the song of the Virgin Mary, for my soul did magnify the Lord for remembering my low estate, and giving me the great …

A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses

Isaiah 63:7

… is this Grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." It is a wonderful instance of affection that God should pitch upon …

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… Not by the sacrifice of His wealth, for though He was rich, yet for our sake He became poor. It does not say that He took away sin …

Religion—a Reality

Deuteronomy 32:47

… You are wise, and you labour and put your money into a bag which is full of holes, and spend it for that which is not bread, and …

A Comprehensive Benediction

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… Spurgeon, upon the same text, are Sermons, #1542, Volume 26—FREE GRACE A MOTIVE FOR FREE GIVING; #2363, Volume 40—COMFORT AND CONSTANCY and #2991, Volume 52—WHAT …

Death and Life in Christ

Romans 6:8-11

… The forty days which Christ spent on earth he lived unto God, comforting his saints, manifesting his person, giving forth gospel precepts. For the few days we have …

Christ Our Peace

Ephesians 2:14

… He immediately went to these despised people and began to declare unto them the unsearchable riches of Christ! Now, in Christ Jesus, what fraternity there is, my Brothers …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… I do not know what money obligations are imposed upon members; I must do as you tell me. (Here a piece of the letter has been cut out …

A Sermon to Ministers and Other Tried Believers

1 Peter 5:7

… We read of various corporations spending a great deal of money in buying chains of office for their mayors, but this chain, worn by the Apostle in his …

A Sense of Pardoned Sin

Isaiah 38:17

… that sentence is surely spoken by one who tries the heart and searches the reins." At other times some strange providence has been the singular means of giving …

Safe, Though Surrounded By Sin

Psalm 28:1

… Be contented where you are, and rest satisfied with Agar's portion, who prayed, "Give me neither poverty nor riches." It must be difficult, too, for a man …

Pleading

Psalm 70:5

… We do not usually think of giving charity to those who do not acknowledge that they need it: the physician does not send his medicine to those who …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… Were I houseless and poor, I would not go to the man who has rolled in wealth from earliest youth, but I would seek out the man who …

For The Troubled

Psalm 88:7

… We have seen men whose only thought was, "Get money, get money," and yet they have professed to be Christians! Such persons have been fretful and unhappy, but …

God's Will About the Future

James 4:13-17

… They did not care for that—they were self-contained—they called themselves, "self-made men" and they intended to make money! Who cannot make money who has …