Index of Stewardship Solutions

Featured Stewardship Resource:

LifeWay Capital Stewardship offers a family of services to assist churches in giving to fund special ministry needs. Whether your church is constructing new facilities, expanding or remodeling existing facilities, or retiring debt - you are doing so in order to reach people. By expanding ministries through outreach, your church is really investing in the lives of people for eternity.

Learn why the LifeWay Capital Stewardship family of services is unique. In fact, our Together We Build program has long been the standard by which all other capital fund-raising campaigns are measured. As the leading provider of biblically based solutions for funding ministry, we want you to know who we are and something about our goals and approach to serving you. View the LifeWay Capital Stewardship site now.

E-Stewardship Solutions Downloadable Lessons
EStewardship Solutions provides downloadable small group lessons ideal for a month-long stewardship promotion in your church. Four separate PDF lessons are now available for only $4.95 including a full step-by-step leader guide and a reproducible learner guide.

• Manage Money Wisely ($4.95)
• Disciplined Giving ($4.95)
• View Finances Wisely ($4.95)
• Handling Money ($4.95)

The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving

Below is an index of the help available for you as you help your church family grow in the discipline of Biblical stewardship.

Free Model Stewardship Sermons:

• The Power of Money Matthew 6 (full model sermon)
   
• How Giving Makes You Joyful Philippians 4 (full model sermon)
   
• It's All His Anyway Psalm 89 (full model sermon)
   
• Free to Give: A Five Sermon Series (5 brief sermon outlines)
   
• Giving and Receiving (Philippians 4:15-19) (full model sermon)
   
• Ideas for Preaching on Stewardship (Brief ideas for 9 sermons)

Free Articles on Stewardship

• 15 Ways to Increase Your Church's Offerings (Keith Hamilton, D.Ed.Min, CFP, CRPC)
   
• Keys for Overcoming Your Church's Financial Crisis (Keith Hamilton)
   
• Five Ways to Reduce Conflicts over Church Finances (Keith Hamilton)
   
• Overcoming Four Coming Church Financial Firestorms (Keith Hamilton)
   
• 5 Vital Tasks of Your Stewardship Promotion Team
   
• Practical Ideas for Year-Round Stewardship Promotion
   
• Making Good Financial Decisions (Larry Burkett)
   
• Hilarious Giving: Debunking Five Tithing Myths
   
• 4 Basic Truths about Stewardship
   
• Are You a Cheerful Giver?
   
• The Gift and the Giver - A Dramatic Reading
   
• The Art and Joy of Giving and Receiving

Free Downloads (PDF downloads require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader):

• 5 Budget Basics (PDF download) 
   
• Stewardship Exercises Insert (PDF download) 
   
• The Seasons of Stewardship - Monthly Stewardship Thoughts (PDF download) 
   
• Tithing Covenant (PDF download) 

Stewardship Resources featuring Larry Burkett:

• Wealth to Last will equip readers with the knowledge, financial tools, and wisdom needed to ensure their fiscal well-being in the second half of life. In doing so, they will be better positioned to bless those generations that follow them with a legacy of stewardship and resources.
   
• Jesus on Money Larry Burkett has teamed with popular Christian writer Kay Moore to develop a comprehensive series that explores how our stewardship role changes at different stages of life.
   
• How Much Is Enough? 30 Days to Personal Revival video featuring Larry Burkett (4-sessions 12-15 minutes each) provides supplemental content to support How Much Is Enough? book.
   
• Money in Marriage Two Member Workbooks. Interactive CD-ROM with easy, self-administered exercises. Two audio sessions on cassette.

Other Resources:

• The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving (Randy Alcorn)
   
• Lifestyle Stewardship Dramas (book)
   
• Kaitlyn and the Three Jars  (Stewardship Education Tract)
   
• What Is Tithing?  (Stewardship Education Tract)
   
• Vital Skills: How to Manage Your Money (study for teenagers)
   
• Basic Accounting for Churches by Jack A. Henry (book)
   
• Getting Your Financial House In Order (book)

Other Stewardship Links (clicking on some of these links will take you away from LifeWay.com)

• LifeWay Capital Stewardship (Fund Raising for large-scale projects like building, land purchase, or renovation)
   
• LifeWay Envelope Service
   
• Southern Baptist Convention Stewardship Resources - New Day 
   
• Southern Baptist Stewardship Development Association (S.D.A.)
   
• GuideStone Financial Resources the Southern Baptist Convention (Formerly Annuity Board)
   
• Baptist Association and State Convention Search (on SBC.net)
   
• Church Financial Ministries (Georgia Baptist Convention)