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Taxes, tithes and offerings

Attempts are often made to base one’s understanding of giving on the Old Testament regulations to the Israelites. Summarizing the Mosaic texts regarding taxes, tithes and offerings, Craig Blomberg highlights their complexity, and provides a framework for culturally-sensitive application. This article is from our weekly newsletter – Money Moment with Crown. It was originally sent out to subscribers on 19 February 2012. Click here, if...

Crown Europe Leaders Summit 2012

Every year Crown Europe staff, volunteers and supporters from different countries in Europe get together for a couple of days and give updates about how Crown is doing in their countries. This is a time of encouraging testimonies and presentations of new products, future developments and strategies. Unlike many other formal conferences, we stress interactive sessions with many opportunities for discussion and input. This year the Crown Europe...

In order to generate wealth we have to work

Crown Reunion in Switzerland as reported by Horst Reiser “The world system and God’s system are reverse”, stated the financial consultant Kurt Buehlmann on Saturday (28 January) in Zurich at the annual CROWNLife Reunion for individuals and families. More then 80 participants learned about values that are worth investing into, how to live in financial freedom and what God thinks about wealth. A similar meeting was held the previous...

Nary a Ship

Tony Campolo reminds us that to take away a person’s job is often to wound that person’s spiritual identity. MAX WEBER, the famous German sociologist, once said that “Luther and Calvin did away with the monasteries and, in turn, made the whole world into a monastery.” What he meant by that was that serving God is not something you do away from your worldly vocation, but in the midst of it. The reformers made it clear...

Quality and the Christian

Dorothy Sayers believes that the secular vocation is sacred. What are the implications of that truth for our vocation? THE CHURCH’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church...