Where to Find What:
Stewardship: Finances and Spiritual Gifts
Items listed include online resources and publications from New Life Ministries
as well as information from other web sites. New Life
Ministries does not necessarily endorse all the content at any site we may link
to from here. Such links are provided because we believe they offer valuable
resources for your use.
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What's 
Giving Is for
Everyone
- LeadershipJournal.net/Patrick Johnson -
added Dec 31 2008
"We" God or "wee god"?
- rev.org/Alan Nelson - added Apr 26 2008
Backlash Against Tithing - Wall Street Journal online/Suzanne Sataline -
added Dec 03 2007
Living with Less - LeadershipJournal.net/Chad Hall -
added Oct 12 2007
Living on
Less—and Loving It - Today's Christian Woman/Ellie Kay -
added Oct 12 2007
We
welcome your suggestions for online stewardship articles.
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NLM Online Resources
Beyond "Time, Talent, and Treasure": Discovering
Our Gifts and Callings - Article/Jean Morris Trumbauer
Church Finances Quiz
- Self-Assessment Tool
Developing
a Financially Strong Congregation -
NLM Report/Steve Clapp & Kristen Leverton Helbert
Ideas
That Work: Lay Ministry Mobilization - Ideas
Money
and Spirituality Quiz - Self-Assessment Tool
More than Sitting in the Pew - People
Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Raising Funds - People
Spots/James W. Moss Sr.
Stewardship -
People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
NLM Publications
& Videos
Desires of Your
Heart–Financial Giving and the Spiritual Life - Holly Carcione, Steve
Clapp, Kristen Leverton, and Angela Zimmerman
Dessert First–Complete Financial Commitment Program - Christian
Community
Dessert First–Devotional Booklet - Steve Clapp
Funds for the Future of the Church: Planned Giving
Options - Thomas C. Rieke
The
Generosity Option: Planning Options for Contemporary Disciples - Thomas
Rieke
Just in Time–Stories of God's Extravagance
- Lynn A. Miller
Preaching,
Planning, and Plumbing: The Implications of Bivocational Ministry for the Church
and for You - Steve Clapp, Ron Finney, and Angela Zimmerman - includes a
spiritual gifts inventory
Other Internet Links
Online Spiritual Gifts Inventories
These inventories include different gift listings
and descriptions. We do not endorse any of these but provide them for your
enlightenment and evaluation.
Elmer Towns Spiritual Gift Inventory
Gifted 2 Serve: Finding Your Place
in Ministry - BuildingChurch.net
Self-Assessment Inventory - from the Evangelical Lutheran Ch in America
(ELCA)
Spiritual Gift
Analysis - from TeamMinistry
Spiritual Gifts
Assessment - from a United Methodist perspective; also see a
spiritual
gifts discernment process from Everett (PA) UMC
Spiritual Gifts Discovery Tool
- from a Lutheran Church Missouri Synod perspective
Spiritual Gifts Inventory - from First Baptist Church (SBC), Huntsville,
Alabama
Spiritual Gifts Inventory - from the United Church of Canada
Spiritual Gifts Test
Inventory - from Ministry Tools Resource Center
Other Online Articles and Organizations
A
Purpose Driven Giving Plan - Pastors.com/Rick Warren
Backlash Against Tithing - Wall Street Journal online/Suzanne Sataline
Barna Research Online's Top
Trends in Stewardship
and Money
Beyond Gift
Inventories - Leadership (Spring 2002)/Deana A Nail
Beyond
"Making Budget" for Your Church - Advance/Byron Van Kley
Borrowing Trouble? (Survey on Church Debt) -
BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Bruce Howard
Cashing in on Church
Giving - OnlineRev.com/Brian Kluth
Christian
Community
Debt-Free Building
Projects - Brian Kluth
Ecumenical Stewardship Center
Faith Raising,
Not Fund Raising – Leadership (Fall 2002)/Forrest Reinhardt
50 Ways to Involve
Senior Adults - Rev magazine
Generous Giving - resources to
help people become generous givers
Giving Is for
Everyone
- LeadershipJournal.net/Patrick Johnson
Good $ense
Ministry
Growing Generous Givers: 12 Tools for Cultivating an Unselfish Church -
Leadership (Summer 1998)/Jay Pankratz
Is Your Church Fiscally Fit? - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/James D Berkley
Key Questions
to Ask Before You Start Fundraising – Leadership (Fall 2002)/Dale
K. Ingersoll
Kingdom
Seekers - stewardship education ministry of Brian Kluth
Living on
Less—and Loving It - Today's Christian Woman/Ellie Kay
Living with Less - LeadershipJournal.net/Chad Hall
The
Money-Wise Church - Your Church
(November/December 2000)/Michael W Michelsen, Jr.
90-Day
Money Back Guarantee For People Who Promise to Start Giving 10% of their Income
to God's Work - Sample Policy - Brian Kluth
Stewardship as a Ministry in the Local Church -
BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Randall K Barton
Ten
Biblical and Practical Reasons to Teach People to Give 10% OR MORE of their
Income to the Lord’s Work - Brian Kluth
Ten Ways to Increase Giving to
Your Church -
Christian Community
The Spiritual Side of Money - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Wayne
Pohl
Tight Money Strategies - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Stephen B. Box
Tithing Is Christian - Elmer Towns (complete book and reproducible
materials online)
Transforming Lives by Teaching on Money - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Dick
Towner
"We" God or "wee god"?
- rev.org/Alan Nelson
This page last updated
December 31, 2008
