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(Using "murdered" in the same sentence as "to recover Lot" is contradictory.)

Tithers see that verse as a promise with conditions and a statement of cause & effect, not a threat. I avoid prosperity doctrine-type churches. Tithing is part of my church's teaching on finances, but finances are not the central focus of the church I attended.

After our bankruptcy in 2004, we started using a banking version of the "Envelopes" bookkeeping system. We are still on the poverty line, but I have a credit score of 800+.

Its promise is not "judgment if you don't," it is "blessing if you do." If you are happy with how your finances are currently going, you don't need to try anything different. No one else, here, stands to gain anything from your decision, one way or another.

An offering is a different animal. We have given offerings in the past, but cannot afford to, now. Malachi 3 applies to tithes, not offerings. (Also, we did not tithe off of SSI nor EBT because they are unearned; just wages & SSDI [a pension based on work].)

"...And [test] Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor...

His Resurrection coincides with the Jewish Feast of First Fruits, which is a part of Passover.

For early New Testament believers, that was Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets), a.k.a. Jewish New Year. Even though we have lost track of Jubilee cycles, He is especially expected to appear on a Year of Jubilee. We commemorate that day by eating Bugles (an American snack chip). We used to sound...

This is a continuing --albeit minor-- disagreement among tithers. Gross tithers don't tithe off of their tax returns; net tithers do. (It is just a matter of how the Holy Spirit convicts you.) Net tithers tithe off of profit and consider unreturned taxes to be loss; an item of overhead...

For us, it IS an item in our budget. Giving, in contrast, is anything above that.

It is the textbook. You need the Paraclete [John 14:26] to make it go.

I tithe to the church we would go to, if they could accommodate us and a different church that actually ministered to my non-disabled children, 50/50. (If we found our preferred type of church that could accommodate us, we would go/tithe there.) I can attest that God has kept His promise in...

No, my son in college in Milwaukee [WI] attends a Korean church/outreach and has a girlfriend from there.

Toe-touchers would stretch those out.

My legs are pretty built-up from bicycling and (prior to that) running. UBE offers the same training for arms & upper body. I do four different exercises on mine, Presses: forward, palms down; Uncurls: forward, palms up; Curls: reverse, palms up; & Rows: reverse, palms down.

I do a few calisthenics plus use a press machine. The latter is always ready to use, if I don't have another appointment to meet. I have also converted my spin bike to a UBE, but that takes a little more prep time to use.

Two frogs were sitting on a log, feeding on passing insects. One remarked to the other, "Time's sure fun when your having flies!"

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