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 you wish to subscribe to it. THE NUMBER...
Read MoreWhat do we do?
Craig L. Blomberg concludes his overview of a Biblical theology of stewardship with an exhortation to believers to be remoulding the church into a counter-cultural community. This article is from our new weekly newsletter – Money Moment with Crown. It was originally published on 4 November 2011. Click here, if you wish to subscribe to it. …We have barely even scratched the surface of possible applications in a more public or secular arena. For example, are we...
Read MoreDon’t send your kids to Harvard!
by Peter Briscoe Is it time to give the Harvard MBA degree a vote of no confidence!? The current “Occupy” movement is doing just that, rebelling against the current naked greed of top managers! That is also what Philip Delves Broughton , himself a graduate of this famous institute implies in his recent book, “What they teach you at Harvard Business School.” He is referring to the ‘greedy managers’ who have received their “Master of Business Administration’ and...
Read MoreMark Lloydbottom on Live@9 (Revelation TV)
On 21st September 2011, Mark Lloydbottom (National Director, Crown UK) and Bola Olajide (volunteer, Crown UK) were guests at the nearly one hour-long live program Live@9 on Revelation TV. They discuss the current economic situation but the show is also packed with excellent advise about budgeting, debt, giving, etc. You can find more about Crown UK here: http://www.crownuk.org/ Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube...
Read MoreWe Can’t See Our Own Greed
This article is from our new weekly newsletter – Money Moment with Crown. It was originally published on 13 September 2011. Click here, if you wish to subscribe to it. Ernest Becker wrote that our culture would replace God with sex and romance. Even earlier, Friedrich Nietzsche had a different theory. He wrote that, with the absence of God growing in Western culture, we would replace God with money. What induces one man to use false weights, another to set his house on fire after having...
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