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Hechos de los Apóstoles 20:35 (RVR60) 35En todo os he enseñado que, trabajando así, se debe ayudar a los necesitados, y recordar las palabras del Señor Jesús, que dijo: Más bienaventurado es dar que recibir.

Sam Gifford and a friend were taking senior pictures along the Mississippi River near Minneapolis, when a nearby shout changed their focus. Authorities said an older man hunting for a lost drone had slipped on a trail and slid 60 feet down the embankment towards the river. Gifford asked his friend to…

Kaylee Goemans found herself in a pickle. Her 6-week-old son, Dominic, was in a lot of pain from intestinal problems. Kaylee packed him up in the car and rushed him to the emergency room. Once there she realized that she had let her car parked in a metered spot and hadn’t put in enough change. Because…

Mike Norton, a professor at the Harvard Business School, persuaded a big investment bank to let him survey the bank’s rich clients. Norton and his colleagues were interested in the relationship between happiness and wealth. They tracked the effects receiving money had on the happiness of people who already…

Bob Blackley of Winston-Salem, N.C. has discovered a great way to celebrate his birthday. For the past three birthdays, his 57th, 58th, and 59th, he has stood on a busy street corner holding a cardboard sign that read, “I have a job. I have a home. Could you use an extra $5?” He gives a five dollar bill…

Mark Bustos is 30 years old and is a hairstylist who works at an upscale Manhattan salon 6 days a week. On his day off Bustos, goes down onto the streets of New York and gives free haircuts to homeless people living on the sidewalks. He got started giving away trims during a trip to the Philippines.…

Just before Christmas an anonymous woman walked into the Wal-Mart in Mesa, Arizona, went up to the customer service desk and gave them $5000.00 with the instruction to pay off as many delinquent layaway orders as that amount would cover. The store cleared 30 orders. “When Wal-Mart employees began phoning…

Kathleen Magowan taught school for 35 years in Simsbury, Connecticut Public schools and lived a rather routine life. She attended exercise classes, her church and she went to work. Obvious by her profession as a school teacher, she was a very smart lady, but no one knew how smart an investor she was…

We have Black Friday and Cyber Monday right after Thanksgiving. How about beginning a new tradition, Giving Tuesday? “Around 2,000 nonprofits and charitable organizations launched their seasonal charity drives on a Tuesday in 2012 to encourage Americans to consider spending money on good causes and spend…

Rankin Paynter of Winchester, Kentucky made a business decision to purchase the entire inventory of a closing Kmart store. It looked like a promising business proposition. After thinking about it a little and observing the poor around his town, he donated the entire $200,000 worth of goods to a community…

Dave Wilson is a luxury car dealer. He owns dealerships in Southern California and Arizona. He remembers what it was like back when he was a janitor on the graveyard shift at Kmart. He was looking for a birthday present for his wife, whose birthday falls in December. On his local radio, he heard about…

Victor stopped on a Wisconsin highway to help a stranger, Sara Berg, whose flat tire stranded her on the roadside. After changing her tire and driving off, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack. Sara Berg then stopped her car, performed CPR, and saved her Good Samaritan’s life. --The Week, November 18,…

For years, Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft has been the world’s richest man. He has ceded his ranking. He has given away more than $28 billion through his charitable foundation. --The Week, March 18, 2011 p. 8 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell Perhaps Gates has learned the truth…

In the book Faith Set Free, Pray for Yourself with Reckless Abandon, Pastor Will Davis Jr. encourages believers to rise above mundane experience and find the abundant life Jesus makes available. According to Davis, one of the important areas is giving. He says generous giving is a reminder that our soul…

“A recent study showed that when people were given money to spend, those who spent it on others were happiest. Giving is literally a joy. If you want to feel better about your day, buy the guy in back of you at Starbucks a cup of coffee. Watch the look on his face. That’s a long-lasting hit of happiness…

STEWARDSHIP A non-profit organization, Bolder Giving, has begun a new league. It is called “the 50% league.” To join is simple. All you have to do is donate half of all profits or personal wealth to causes that reflect your deepest values. Co-founder Anne Ellinger explains “an organization such as Bolder…

I heard about a teacher who asked the children in her class about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. She thought it might be effective to inch toward its meaning by having them playfully correct some wrong ideas. "Now let me think," she began. "Thanksgiving. That's the day when we think about all the…

In a 1984 commencement speech at Iona College, Mario Cuomo addressed his remarks to the parents of the graduating class. Cuomo claimed that the parents of his generation had taught their children to be go-getters. Then he asked, "Can we now say to them that if they want to be happy they must be go-givers?…

GIVING Officials at the Louisiana Baptist Convention are used to receiving donations, but a recent gift was unexpected and extraordinary. A group of twenty men from the Island of Sumatra sent a gift of $854 to help those hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. The men experienced the tragedy of natural disaster…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

To Illustrate •§• TEMPTATION TRIALS FAITH T he February 26,1974 edition of Insight told the story of Major William Martin, a British subject who is bur­ied near Huelvo on the southern coast of Spain. Martin never knew the great contribution he made to the Allied success in the Second World War, espe­cially…

The Stewordship of Money, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- m^~ n--------------- /----- I he use of money has a great deal to say about the moral condition of the one who uses it. Contemporary Christians often make denunications of wealth and the wealthy, on the…