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Church tithes and offerings is not endorsed by any denomination or organization. Although this website does question the practices of church organizations and their leaders, we would not dare indicate that all organizations and their leaders are misled or in sin. We know that there is but a very small minority that could possibly have the wrong motives. We cannot even begin to guess the motives that are behind the leaders that stand behind pulpits today, but what we do understand that where your money is, there your heart is also. So with that statement we reserve the right to voice our concern over the stewardship condition of the church and the tithing issue.
Statement of Faith
- We believe that the Bible is the inspired, authoritative Word of God. It is without error.
- We believe that there is one Lord of the universe, and exists as 3 persons of God: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His miracles; His atoning death through blood He shed; His physical resurrection; His ascension to heaven; and His return in power and glory.
- We believe that all people are lost sinners and that regeneration by the Holy Spirit and surrender to the will of God is needed.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, who indwells the Christian and enables them to live in accordance to the will of God.
- We believe that everyone, whether saved or lost to eternal damnation, will be resurrected
- We believe in the spiritual unity of the saints of the cornerstone, the Lord Jesus Christ..
- We believe that God, our Creator, claims ultimate ownership of everything on the earth. God has entrusted his people with a stewardship and expects them to invest and manage the resources and talents He’s left them, in accordance to the eteral principles of God’s word.
About the Author
Jared grew up in a christian home and was born-again at the early age of seven. He graduated from a Christian college with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. Jared owns his own website design business and is actively involved in his church and ministries. Jared donates his time and resources to advance specific ministries within his church and community. Right now he and his wife live in Jacksonville, FL.
Jared has spent thousands of hours in research on the subject of tithing and stewardship. He does not have a P.H.D. or a masters in theology; nor is he a pastor. Jared is a practical teacher for the practical person. He continues to be a pupil on the subject of tithing by reading and listening to what others are saying about the subject of stewardship.
On the lighter side, Jared likes to play video games, spend time with his best friend, soul mate, and lover-his wife. He’s been involved in many organized sporting activities, such as soccer, basketball, and baseball. He loves Philly cheesesteaks, and if you’ve never had one, then you’ve never lived.
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Running Wild
by Bruce Alan Niles
I wonder what would have happened if I had been raised in the church. As it turned out, I was a sometimes Catholic. Sometimes I went – more often – not.
I went to two Parochial schools and failed both. I was self-centered and felt the world should revolve around me.
I was born in 1934, almost a year before my mother was first married. I grew up gaining and losing seven step dads. A kid really needs a dad and there was no authority figure in my life. We traveled so much I felt at home on the trains that plied the West coast and knew most rail schedules by the age of 12. I got to be an accomplished shoplifter by the age of 8. I didn’t need to steal and can’t tell you to this day why I did. I started smoking grapevine by the age of 12, and stole a car at the age of 14. I was going to drive south, but drove instead into a man’s garage and pushed his car into his back yard, so I went to jail! From that time on I was on probation continuously. At barely 15 I put a bullet in a fellow teen’s arm. The judge put me in foster care.
The foster home was five miles beyond the electric lines in the logging country of Washington State. I learned to cut trees over eight feet through, at least as long as we still had those huge trees. I carried all the water from the spring to the house. I learned to plow using logging horses. Believe it or not, I seemed to like it. I believe now that this was the beginning lessons in discipline.
I went to church there, but I never listened to what the pastor talked about. He seemed to be talking above the kid’s heads. I really couldn’t reach the concept of a personal God.
I was paroled home at the age of 16. One year later, at my probation officer’s “suggestion” I joined the army. I was a demolition man in the Korean War.
I went to a Billy Graham meeting in 1951, in South Carolina, and went forward to accept Christ. I think I really wanted the Lord then, but there were things I didn’t want to give up. I didn’t want to appear different from my friends. Within six months I was back in my former habits. I just wouldn’t listen to God. And God was a gentleman, as always; he didn’t force me.
After the army, I went to a Protestant church in Southern California and was rebaptized. I only thought I was serious, so I started playing church, but God knew.
Nothing went right so I went into the Air Force, still running away from myself. I was sent to the Far East and tried to drink it dry, but failed. I was transferred back into the U.S. and found a beautiful Texas girl and we married. Lo and behold, her father was a Pentecostal preacher. Then the change started. I didn’t know that Christ was closing in on me while I was still playing church. We spent three years in Chateauroux, France, a couple of years in Reno, then off into civilian life.
After the Air Force, I had one job after another: salesman, aircraft worker, deputy sheriff, truck driver . . . One day, working as a life insurance agent in Seattle, my financial world started coming unglued. We had been attending a church close to our home, so I went to see the pastor. I poured out my problems for about 30 minutes. He listened and then, with tears in his eyes, he said, “Bruce, God sure must love you.”
He explained that sometimes God lets our little house of cards get knocked down to show us that He is the One to turn to. So, there with Pastor Jim Nicholson and God, I gave my life to Christ. In prayer I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me.
Oh, I lost the job that I had, but God had a better idea. Soon after that, at home, my wife, Joy, and I received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and a new prayer language.
I realize now that in all those prior years of running wild I was looking for something real. When I stopped playing and came to Christ and let Him have my life, I found that something I had been looking for. You know, I don’t feel unwanted anymore.
Christ is all I need. Praise the Lord.