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• Three Keys to Understanding How Boomers Give
• What kinds of gifts can I give in exchange for life-income payments?
• How Doing Nothing Can Say Everything
• Announcing the Abraham Kuyper Christian Leadership Fund
• The Mistake You Can’t Afford to Make When it Comes to Giving
• Canan to serve as Barnabas Foundation’s newest planning attorney
• Open Hands, Open Heart
• Is it Okay if Your Church Lives Paycheck To Paycheck?
• Difficult Decisions
• Open Hands, Open Hearts: Record-Breaking Generosity in 2021
• Here’s A Plan to Exceed This Year’s Budget
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• Is God Worried?
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• When Church Members Don’t Give
• Can I Buy More Time to Make Year-End Gifts?
• Without This, Generosity Never Happens
• A Foundation of Joy
• How Should You Give? It's Location, Location, Location!
• Dirty Money and What God Wants
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• You Amaze Me!
• Who Should My Executor Be?
• Money vs. Wisdom? It's No Contest
• A Wandering Aramean Meets Mr. Building-Bigger-Barns
• After 45 Years, Life’s Still Too Short To Worry About Wealth
• What You Said to Me on the Phone Last Year (and Why it Made Me Hopeful)
• Giving Equipment and Property
• The Law of the Harvest
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• What It's Really Like to Have It All
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• Why It’s Hard for the Rich to Enter the Kingdom
• How Much To Keep
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• God's Faithfulness Through Adversity
• When There's Too Much In The Collection Plate
• Record-Breaking Generosity in 2020
• "The Good News Never Stops"
• Money Can’t Buy Church Renewal
• Who’s Greater Than A Billionaire?
• What are my options for an executor of my will or a trustee of my trust?
• Sharing What Works
• This Year's SECURE Act
• Fourth Quarter All-Stars
• When Greed Disguises As Ministry
• Take My Sermon Challenge
• Year-End Giving Deadlines
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• The Business of Family
• What Worship Looks Like
• 5 Things To Know About Year-End Stock Gifts
• Osborn and Lopez Latest Additions to Barnabas Foundation’s Planning Team
• The Remedy For Your Envy
• Having Difficult Conversations With Your Adult Children
• Stewarding Relationships With Humility and Grace
• A Compelling Case for Ministry
• In Light of the Current Market, Should I Still Consider Giving Stock?
• How Prepared Are Your Heirs?
• Get in Line With Jesus
• An Open Letter to Pastors from Noah
• Unanimously Different
• 3 Reasons You Can’t Lose Digital Giving
• Leaving a Legacy
• Choosing an Executor for Your Will
• In the Midst of Challenging Times
• Giving Stock in Times of Economic Uncertainty
• Planning for the Fourth Quarter
• Missional Budget? What Does That Mean?
• Save Your Kids From Chaos and Trauma Through a Family Meeting
• Is Equal What's Right?
• Finding a Lawyer for Your Will
• The Crucial Decision No Parent Wants to Make
• From Cheap to Charitable
• Retirement Income VS. Charitable Giving
• Generosity's Secret Ingredient
• Mission-Focused Giving
• Gifts That Pay Income
• The CARES Act and Charitable Giving
• Giddy Giving
• My Nerdy (Stewardship) Dream
• What Does Your Plan Say About Your Values?
• The Wayward Child
• What Do I Need to Know About the SECURE Act?
• Trouble Meeting Your Budget? Try Pew Rentals!
• "Humbled and Amazed." $67 Million Directed to Charitable Organizations in 2019
• Digital Assets, Avoiding Probate and Living Wills
• A Lesson From Termites?
• Before You Say Anything Else About Giving, Say This
• Adventures in Living and Giving
• Important Information for IRA Gifts in December
• Where Is Their Wealth Going?
• Expressing God's Glory
• Timing of Year-End Gifts
• When Faith-Talk Includes Money-Talk
• Can I Give My Stock to My Church?
• You Don't Have to Be a Superhero
• Not ‘Got To’ But ‘Get To’
• Does Jesus Want Me to Buy My Friends?
• Three Ways to Turn Giving Into Ministry
• A Cut for the Kingdom
• Should Pastors Know How Much Church Members Give?
• Generosity During the Retirement Years
• Gifts From Your IRA
• The Scale of Giving
• The One Thing
• Gifts to Remember
• A Budget by Any Other Name
• Find Us Faithful
• Glorifying God with Your Property
• God's Property and Purposes
• Finding Mission Through Financial Shalom
• Triple Your Freedom. Multiply Your Impact.
• Giving Options for Life Income Arrangements
• I Gave Up My Cup of Joe for Lent… Here’s What I Learned
• A Place Where All Can Flourish
• Gifts That Pay Income
• Known to Give
• Giving with Urgency
• Don’t Let This Creep Near You
• These Thoughts Are on FIRE
• Generosity's Ripple Effect
• When You're Not on the Same Page
• Can These Bones Live?
• Barnabas Foundation Celebrates Record Charitable Distributions in 2018
• Leaving a 21st Century Legacy: One Church's Story
• Do I Really Need a Will?
• A Legacy for the Kingdom - or for Canines?
• My Wealth and My Neighbor
• Connect the Dots
• Since When Does Winning $1 Billion Mean You've Made It?
• Savvy Year-End Giving
• Should I Give My Stock to Charity?
• Out of Africa
• Hey, Church... Wanna Hear a Secret?
• A Lesson from Aretha Franklin for the Church
• Before You Talk About Money With Your Kids, Say This
• How Do I Leave a Gift for My Church in My Will?
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• Tell Congress to pass the “Legacy IRA Act” for expanded tax-wise giving options
• How Generosity Crushes Greed
• More Influence Than You Know
• How Often Should I Update My Will?
• Byte-Sized Giving
• Paying for Church Ministry...Who Decides? Me or My Millennial Friend?
• When Giving Gets Real
• Income for Life
• You're the Total Package... But Are You Generous?
• Debt’s Threat – A Real and Present Danger
• Reading the Bible in Community
• It's How They Lived
• Retirement Income vs. Charitable Giving: You Don't Have to Choose
• Give Me the Collection Plate!
• Charitable Gift Annuities
• Myths of Charitable Giving
• Share My Paycheck?
• God’s Measuring Cup
• Kingdom Causes and Income for Life
• Taking Aim at Missions
• Sermons, Starbucks and Savvy Support
• Barnabas Foundation Celebrates Record $52 Million in Charitable Distributions
• A High Level Threat
• Money vs. Ministry
• My Church and Non-Cash Assets
• When They Saw a Need, They Gave
• The God-Shaped Life
• Barnabas Foundation Celebrates Record-Breaking $85 Million in Charitable Gifts
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• Take Advantage of Limited-Time, Tax-Wise Opportunities for 2017
• Morrow to Serve West Coast as Barnabas Foundation’s Newest Planning Attorney
• Leo Joins Barnabas Foundation Team as Church Communications Director
• Barnabas Foundation Appoints Knoll and Dykstra to Lead Enhanced Member Relations Efforts
• Barnabas Foundation Celebrates $600 Million in Charitable Gifts Distributed on Behalf of Christian Donors
• Barnabas Foundation Members Provide Critical Relief Following Hurricanes
• Barnabas Foundation Moves to New Home in Crete, IL
• Day Joins Barnabas Foundation Team as Director of Marketing
• 40 Years of Growing Generosity
• New Executive Director

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