Stewardship

Preaching and teaching on stewardship

Other stewardship passages

Theme

Passage
God's creation Genesis 1: 1, 26-31
Stewardship of the environment Genesis 2, 7-9, 15-25
Jacob’s pledge Genesis 28, 16-22
Offerings for the Tabernacle  Exodus 35, 20-29 and 36, 2-7
Tithes Leviticus 27, 30-33
God's goodness  Deuteronomy 8, 6-20
Tithes Deuteronomy 14, 22-27
Generosity Deuteronomy 15, 7-11;
Deuteronomy 16, 10 & 16-17
Offerings for the priests Deuteronomy 18, 1-5
Be generous in your conduct Deuteronomy 24, 10-22
Offerings that cost nothing 2 Samuel 24, 18-24
All things come from you 1 Chronicles 29, 10-20
Hezekiah organises the offerings  2 Chronicles 31, 2-10, 14-21
First fruits and tithes Nehemiah 10, 35-39
Wisdom’s benefits Proverbs 3, 1-18
Proverbs about wealth Proverbs 11, 1-4, 18-19, 24-31
Pleasures are meaningless  Ecclesiastes 2, 1-11
The results of injustice Amos 5, 6-15
Building God’s house Haggai 1, 2-14
Robbing God  Malachi 3, 5-18
Almsgiving Tobit 4, 5-11, 14-16 and 12, 6-10
Economic justice Sirach 4, 1-6, 31
Giving and real treasures Matthew 6, 1-4, 19-24
Travel light  Matthew 10, 5-10
Feeding the 5000 Matthew 14, 13-21
Camels and rich people Matthew 19, 24
Paying God and Caesar Matthew 22, 15-22
Don’t neglect your tithes Matthew 23, 23
Sheep and goats Matthew 25, 31-46
The rich young man  Mark 10, 17-31
The widow’s offering   Mark 12, 41-44
The Baptiser's advice Luke 3, 10-14
Give... and it will be given to you Luke 6, 37-38
The two debtors Luke 7, 35-49
The good Samaritan Luke 10, 25-37
The rich fool Luke 12, 13-21
Do not worry Luke 12, 22-34
Much is required Luke 12, 35-48
The shrewd steward Luke 16, 1-13
Pharisee and tax collector Luke 18, 9-14
Zacchaeus the tax collector Luke 19, 1-10
The ten talents Luke 19, 11-26
The widow’s offering Luke 21, 1-4
God’s gift of love John 3:16
Sharing possessions Acts 2, 42-47 and 11, 27-30
Greed . . . Ananias and Sapphira Acts 5, 1-11
Paul on helping others  Acts 20, 32-35
Transformed and renewed Romans 11, 33 to 12, 8
The Christian worker’s rights 1 Corinthians 9, 3-18
The collection 1 Corinthians 15, 58 to 16, 4
Paul on Macedonian generosity 2 Corinthians 8, 1-15
Responding to God’s generosity 2 Corinthians 9, 6-11
The gospel is free  2 Corinthians 11, 7-9
Paul’s thanksgiving Philippians 4, 10-20
Caring for family & church elders  1 Timothy 5, 3-8, 17-18
The love of money 1 Timothy 6, 6-10, 17-19
Contentment and sharing Hebrews 13, 5-6, 15-16
The perils of riches James 5, 1-6
Living for God 1 Peter 4, 7-11
Judgement and heaven Revelation 20, 11 – 21, 7