Congratulations FPU'ers!

Congratulations to all our Creekers (and Yorktowners) who graduated last week from our First Financial Peace University Class!

Way to go! Way to press on!

We had over 10 families who retired at least $1,000 of debt just in the 13 weeks . . . and at least 2 families who already retired over $5,000 of debt . . . and they're just getting started!

It's incredible how God is blessing these folks -- and this Fall when we offer FPU again, you can get in on the blessing!

On the last week Dave Ramsey talked about Giving. Here are some highlights of what he said:

- You and I are asset managers for God, so if we view it properly, we aren't giving our own money.

- Giving moves you to become less selfish, and less selfish people have more of a tendency to prosper in relationships and wealth!

- Because we are made in God's image, we are happiest and most fulfilled when we are serving and giving.

- A 'tithe' of your first fruits is a 10th off the top of what God has given you!

- "'Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, try Me now in this,' says the Lord of hosts, 'See if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be enough room to receive it.'" (Malachi 3:10)

Blessed or Not Blessed?

Following Jesus. As I talked about on Sunday, some of the most telling spiritual decisions we make on a daily basis are what we do with our wealth. Do we get in the pool with our wallet, or without?

“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." (Matthew 6:24).
If we are going to live ALL in, Jesus says we must serve Him with our money.

And this is such a HUGE area because it's a place where we are most tempted to separate the sacred and the secular. To say: 'This is MINE, and this is gods.' And when we do that it scrambles our spiritual lives! Why else did Jesus talk about money more than anything else, more even than prayer and faith?

It's ALL His. It's ALL spiritual.
Are you resisting? You're not resisting me. You're resisting God. If you weren't there on Sunday I encourage you to click here and listen to the message.

And I challenge you as God Himself did in Malachi 3: "Test Me in this . . . and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have enough room for it."

What are you waiting for? Get in the pool!