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Malachi 3:10 · WEB
10Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, says Yahweh of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough [to receive it].
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Marcus and Elena Rivera had been married three years when Marcus lost his warehouse job in Memphis. They were already stretched thin — rent, a...
In 1935, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau stood in his Peoria, Illinois factory surrounded by earthmoving machines of his own design. He had nearly lost everything during...
Margaret Chen sat at her kitchen table in Raleigh, North Carolina, sorting the month's bills into two stacks — due now and past due. Her...
In 1935, a Texas earthmoving contractor named R.G. LeTourneau made a decision that his accountant called reckless. Already tithing ten percent of his income, LeTourneau...
In the spring of 1988, outside Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Dale Hendricks stood at the edge of his wheat field and watched the dust lift off cracked...
In 1987, a drought pressed hard against the farmland outside Macon, Georgia. Wells ran low. Fields cracked. Most farmers held tight to whatever water they...
On a dusty farmstead outside Abilene, Kansas, there stands an old cast-iron hand pump — the kind with a long lever and a rusted spout....
When sixteen-year-old William Colgate left his family's farm in Maryland and set out for New York City in 1801, he had almost nothing. Along the...
Margaret Chen had kept the windows of her small bakery shut tight for three winters. Business was slow, flour prices climbed, and she calculated every...
In 1947, a cotton farmer named Earl Thibodeaux stood at the edge of his sixty acres outside Opelousas, Louisiana, staring at frozen ground. His wife,...
In rural Appalachia, old homesteads still have cast-iron hand pumps standing over deep wells. Anyone who has used one knows the frustrating secret: you cannot...
In 1983, a tobacco farmer named Earl Sutton outside Danville, Virginia, faced the driest August anyone could remember. His wells were low. His neighbors had...
In 1946, chemist Vincent Schaefer stood inside a General Electric laboratory in Schenectady, New York, and dropped a handful of dry ice pellets into a...
In 2012, Marcus and Denise Holloway ran a small produce farm outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. When a brutal drought scorched the region, most neighboring farms held...
Margaret Chen had farmed forty acres outside Salinas, California, for nineteen years. She knew the math of survival — every bushel counted, every dollar stretched...
In rural Appalachia, old hand-pumped wells still dot the hillsides. Anyone who has used one knows the rule: before you can draw water out, you...
In 1903, farmers near the small town of Artesia, New Mexico, discovered something remarkable beneath the dry desert floor. When they drilled down and opened...
In the spring of 1934, outside Broken Bow, Nebraska, Raymond Holt stood in his barn holding a burlap sack — the last forty pounds of...
The sermon illustration emphasizes the importance of viewing money as a spiritual force that can either draw us closer to God or lead us into idolatry. It highlights the Reformed theological perspective on stewardship, urging believers to recognize God's ownership of all resources and to transform their relationship with money through practices like tithing, which fosters trust and heart transformation.
The sermon illustration emphasizes the importance of viewing money through the lens of stewardship rather than ownership, highlighting that our relationship with money reflects our beliefs about God's character and provision. It teaches that tithing is a way to break the hold of money over our lives and to affirm God's ownership of all resources, ultimately leading to heart transformation and spiritual growth.