Training for Biblical Stewardship

Ron Blue

Ron Blue Institute for Financial Planning
A variety of resources including curriculum, videos, articles, preaching/teaching materials, and Excel worksheets (1 – 2 hours)

The Four H’s of Financial Wisdom: Heart, Health, Habits and Hope
These tools, offered by the Ron Blue Institute, are designed to equip people with an understanding of the four basic arenas where the Bible speaks most about money and money management. (Small group study should include study preparation time and small group meeting.)

Small Group Studies

Ramsey+ for Churches
Dave Ramsey’s churchwide stewardship movement

The Four H’s of Financial Wisdom: Heart, Health, Habits and Hope
These tools, offered by the Ron Blue Institute, are designed to equip people with an understanding of the four basic arenas where the Bible speaks most about money and money management. (Small group study should include study preparation time and small group meeting.)

Saving Grace: A Guide to Financial Well-Being
This six-session program provides a Wesleyan approach to the topics of earning, spending, debt, savings, and giving, along with strategies to achieve a sustainable financial life. (Small group study should include study preparation time and small group meeting.)

Ramsey+
The Ramsey+ subscription is an all-access membership to Ramsey’s best money tools, apps and content. It includes access to their online courses, including Financial Peace University, the premium version of EveryDollar, the BabySteps app, PLUS much more. [Note: The Ramsey+ subscription courses cannot be the only resources used for your personal and/or church training goals.]

Jump Start – Ramsey+
This crash course will help jump start your progress and set you up for success even before you dive into Financial Peace University. (5 hours)

Financial Peace University – Ramsey+
Learn how to take control of your money. A biblically based course in basic personal finances. (14 hours)

God Owns It All
A Ron Blue small group Bible study – 6 lessons – video download. (Small group study should include study preparation time and small group meeting.)

The Legacy Journey – Ramsey+
Learn a radical view of biblical wealth and generosity. (8 hours)

MoneyLife Personal Finance Study
Video-driven, financial Bible study made up of 7 online self-paced lessons, or DVD/workbook small group study, and preaching materials. (Small group study should include study preparation time and small group meeting.)

Do Well – The Crown Biblical Financial Study
10-week small group Bible study on topics such as Spending, Debt, Giving, and more. (Small group study should include study preparation time and small group meeting.)

“40 Day Generous Life” (Spanish, Portugese, Korean, and more)
A 40-day devotional and churchwide stewardship campaign available in more than 50 languages

7 Keys to Open-Handed Living
30 day devotional and church wide stewardship campaign

Smart Money Smart Kids – Ramsey+
Teach your kids to make wise financial decisions. (9 hours)

Preaching on Money

Stewardship Sermon Resources
The Church of the Nazarene has assembled a resource page with current sermons on preaching generosity and stewardship.

Stewardship Sermons
Download stewardship sermons from the winners of the Stewardship Sermon Scholarship contest. Over a dozen sermons available for use – free of charge. (Time estimate should include preparation and delivery time.)

Faith Promise Sermon Series
Four sermon outlines by Rev. Kevin Rector to use for Faith Promise, provided by Stewardship Ministries. (Need to create a free account. Time estimate should include preparation and delivery time.)

Sermons for Special Offerings
Here are two sermons by Jonathan K. Twitchell, complete with full manuscript, notes, and worship service suggestions. One sermon is for the World Evangelism Fund offering, and the other for a Thanksgiving offering. (Time estimate should include preparation and delivery time.)

Accelerating Generosity and Giving in Your Church
An ECFA webinar-on-demand with Chris Willard, co-author of “Contagious Generosity: Creating a Culture of Giving in Your Church.” Free for ECFA member churches.

Brian Kluth Materials
Devotionals, books, sermons, financial cartoons, bulletin inserts, videos banners, offertory slides, webinars, church-wide campaigns, legacy planning, leadership training

Preaching Biblical Generosity
Resources available from Generous Church: Training videos, sermon illustrations, epapers, articles

Five Offerings You Never Thought to Ask For
A webinar by Mark Lail from the School of Stewardship (59:31)

Generosity Fever
A webinar by Mark Lail from the School of Stewardship (59:27)

Stewardship Ministries

Stewardship Sermon Resources
The Church of the Nazarene has assembled a resource page with current sermons on preaching generosity and stewardship.

Developing a Giving Church
This book, by Stan Toler and Elmer Towns, contains insightful principles and proven methods for creating a giving culture in your church and developing biblical stewards of time, talent and treasure. (6 hours)

Stewardship Sermons
Download stewardship sermons from the winners of the Stewardship Sermon Scholarship contest. Over a dozen sermons available for use – free of charge. (Time estimate should include preparation and delivery time.)

Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Book: This story of how one church found abundance in a community of material poverty inspires readers to seek justice in their own local communities and to find abundance and hope all around them. (4.25 hours)

Stewardship Month Resource Kits
Sermons, bulletin inserts, PowerPoint slides, letters, and Bible lessons for a monthlong church-wide stewardship emphasis. (Need to create a free account. Time estimate should include preparation and delivery time.)

Nazarene Foundation

Host a Legacy and Generosity Event
Explore ways that the Church of the Nazarene Foundation can assist your ministry through planned giving or long-term asset investment.