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MARCH 7,8,9 FREDERICKSBURG, TX. HeartPrints’ Annual Retreat GUEST SPEAKER: Linda Strom REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY! INFORMATION AND FORMS AVAILABLE AT WOMEN’S MINISTRY TABLE REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY! INFORMATION AND FORMS AVAILABLE AT WOMEN’S MINISTRY TABLE

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faith revealed through generosity faith revealed through generosity

1. “I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.” 2. “Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?” 3. “Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $2000 will only buy a used one.” QUOTES FROM 1955

4. “When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.” 5. “Fifty cents for a haircut…that’s outrageous.”

faith revealed through generosity

Per Capita Incomes 1. World 8,200/year 2. Low Income 2,190/year 3. Middle Income 6,000/year 4. Upper Income 12,000/year

Per Capita Income by Nation 1. Luxembourg 54,430/year 2. Ukraine 9,000/year 3. Rwanda 1,290/year 4. USA 37,500/year

faith revealed through generosity faith revealed through generosity

THE FOUR INDICTMENTS THE FOUR INDICTMENTS

1 st INDICTMENT… HOARDING HOARDING

“ Their property held them in chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their souls. If they had stored their treasure in heaven, they would not be enslaved as they are to their own property. THEY ARE NOT THE MASTERS OF THEIR MONEY, BUT ITS SLAVES.” “ Their property held them in chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their souls. If they had stored their treasure in heaven, they would not be enslaved as they are to their own property. THEY ARE NOT THE MASTERS OF THEIR MONEY, BUT ITS SLAVES.” Bishop Cyprian, 3 rd Century

“What’s yours is mine; I will take it.” “What’s mine is mine; I will keep it.” “What’s mine is God’s. I will share it.”

1 st INDICTMENT… HOARDING HOARDING

2 nd INDICTMENT… INJUSTICE INJUSTICE

“You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.” Leviticus 19: 13 “You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.” Leviticus 19: 13

2 nd INDICTMENT… INJUSTICE INJUSTICE

There is some persistent quirk in our thinking that convinces us that temporal things will give us permanent joy. There is some persistent quirk in our thinking that convinces us that temporal things will give us permanent joy.

He who has no money is poor, He who has nothing But money is even poorer. He who has no money is poor, He who has nothing But money is even poorer.

2 nd INDICTMENT… INJUSTICE INJUSTICE

3 RD INDICTMENT… SELF-INDULGENCE SELF-INDULGENCE

“Money can’t buy happiness…but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” Spike Lee “Money can’t buy happiness…but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” Spike Lee

“If happiness could be found in having material things and in being able to indulge yourself in things that you consider pleasurable, then we in America should be deliriously happy. We should be telling one another frequently of our unparalleled bliss rather than trading tranquilizer prescriptions.” Chuck Swindoll “If happiness could be found in having material things and in being able to indulge yourself in things that you consider pleasurable, then we in America should be deliriously happy. We should be telling one another frequently of our unparalleled bliss rather than trading tranquilizer prescriptions.” Chuck Swindoll

If you owned everything your heart desired, chances are your heart would desire something else! If you owned everything your heart desired, chances are your heart would desire something else!

4 th INDICTMENT… GREED GREED

THE BATTLE… WANTING MORE IN A LAND OF PLENTY THE BATTLE… WANTING MORE IN A LAND OF PLENTY

THE SOLUTION… TRUSTING GOD AND LIVING GENEROUSLY THE SOLUTION… TRUSTING GOD AND LIVING GENEROUSLY

THE SOLUTION… TRUSTING GOD AND LIVING GENEROUSLY THE SOLUTION… TRUSTING GOD AND LIVING GENEROUSLY

FOCUS ON ETERNAL RATHER THAN TEMPORAL TREASURES FOCUS ON ETERNAL RATHER THAN TEMPORAL TREASURES

See You Next Week!