by Gist Team | Jun 11, 2025 | Personal Finance and the Gospel
Does our relationship with the Bank and ATO matter? How do we think about tax and debt as Christians? Here again, the twin principles of avoiding greed and being generous along with trusting God and not being anxious help us navigate these issues.[1] As we finish our...
by Gist Team | Jun 11, 2025 | Personal Finance and the Gospel
Will our churches be able to work if our budgets shrink? As our cultural moment changes, and we move into an increasingly post-Christian world, our church budgets are likely to be affected. Various taxation relief and special concessions currently given to churches...
by Gist Team | Jun 11, 2025 | Personal Finance and the Gospel
I’m ready to be generous! What now? Christians are to be generous, living as we do out of Christ’s great generosity to us. So, how can we best express this? Who should benefit from this generosity? We and others benefit from thoughtful giving that asks how our...
by Gist Team | Jun 11, 2025 | Personal Finance and the Gospel
Who should I give to, and how much? A thread that we have returned to reflexively throughout these articles is the Christian desire to give to the poor. This is not a surprise. When we come to know the Lord Jesus, his Spirit changes us profoundly. One of the practical...
by Gist Team | Jun 11, 2025 | Personal Finance and the Gospel
Does God care about my home ownership, or lack of it? Part of thinking about our money well involves understanding what we use it for: food, housing and so forth. The more we understand what we are using money for, the better equipped we are to make informed...
by Gist Team | Jun 11, 2025 | Personal Finance and the Gospel
Who are the poor and what can I do? If we want to understand how to think about our money well as Christians, we need our thinking to be governed by Scripture. But we also need to know something of how economics functions in our world. We live in a world with...
