Refuge 11.3.11
Hey this makes four straight weeks in a row of actually getting a recording posted! YIP YIP! :D
Here are the recording files from tonight's Refuge (Nov 3, 2011).
thanks for listening!
Hannah Montgomery 2nd
I posted our photos from Hannah's shoot a few weeks back. Friday we met up again for a second shoot, so I'm reposting all of the photos together in their entirety now that both shoots are complete.
thanks for stopping by!
Refuge 3
If you would like to listen to Refuge, there are three links below to the recordings. I try to break them down into the three parts of the service: worship, speaking, ending.
I have managed to mess up the recordings each week in one way or the other. This week's mystery mistake? The first 20secs of the BAND clip are gone. :) thanks for dropping by!
Christian Financial Principles
Our speaker tonight at MBSF spoke on stewardship, and how to handle God's money with focus on what it is. His.
The key is "Stewardship".
Get that, and the rest will be a lot easier.
Ecc. 5:10
With greater riches come greater responsibilities.
Luke 12:48
If you make more than $1500 a year, you are in the top 20% of worldwide income.
If you make $30k/yr or more, top 7% worldwide.
If you make $50k/yr or more, top 1% worldwide.
6 people die each second from hunger.
In America, we have been given more, which means more is expected of us.
With greater riches come greater responsibilities.
90% of your income can go farther than 100%
This is the only thing in scripture he says "test me".
The average American spends $1.22 for every $1.00 they make. Spend less than you make. Be salt and light, be different than the world.
If you want stress, exceed your financial bounds.
You need $2 million at age 65. Here is how much you need to save annually depending on which age you started at.
AGE ANNUAL SAVING
20 $2,782
25 $4,518
30 $7,379
35 $12,158
Matthew 25:21
Do Not Worry
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.