{"id":5703,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gifts-of-giving\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:27","slug":"gifts-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gifts-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"GIFTS\n  OF GIVING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Christian Culture; Giving; Money<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Matthew 6:19\u201324; 16:24<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When we give money, we are releasing a little more of our egocentric selves and a little more of our false security.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Giving frees us to care. It produces an air of expectancy as we anticipate what God will lead us to give. It makes life with God an adventure of discovery. We are being used to help make a difference in the world, and that is worth living for and giving for.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Richard J. Foster, <i>Money, Sex and Power<\/i> (Harper, 1985)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Christian Culture; Giving; Money References: Matthew 6:19\u201324; 16:24 When we give money, we are releasing a little more of our egocentric selves and a little more of our false security.\u2026 Giving frees us to care. It produces an air of expectancy as we anticipate what God will lead us to give. It makes life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gifts-of-giving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GIFTS<br \/>\n  OF GIVING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}