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Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
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compassion
current
future
hoarding
justice
labor
love
need
neighbor
present
saving
selfish
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.
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compassion
future
hoarding
needs
present
protection
saving
sharing
stewardship
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Randy Alcorn |
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"...What do you do with all your money?" "Me and the French hoard gold."
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funny
gold
hoarding
humor
money
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Dashiell Hammett |
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Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.
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hoarding
power
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us apart to hide in our own basements or mountain retreats, guarding at gunpoint our private stores from others? If we faithfully use our assets for his kingdom now, rather than hoarding them, can't we trust our faithful God to provide for us then?
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economic-catastrophe
faith
fiscal-cliff
gunpoint
hoarding
protection
provision
resources
sharing
stewardship
survivalism
trust
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Randy Alcorn |
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Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years.
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cellar
hoarding
moving
storage
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Bill Bryson |
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Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)
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discipleship
giving
grip
hoarding
kingdom
possessions
purpose
selfish
sharing
surrender
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Randy Alcorn |