Podcast appearances and mentions of Ronald J Sider

How are you aligning your money to bring glory to God?In this episode, Jeff, Bill, and Dana discuss: Start your marriage on the same financial page, and let God lead it.Nothing in life has a sacred and secular divide.Stories of successful stewards.Understanding your finish line and approaching it with joy.   Key Takeaways: If you want to be a good giver and be most effective, there is work to be done to find the most impactful organizations and needs. You may not be called to give it all away, you may be called to work so that others might live.Keep seeking God's face, and let Him adjust. Just start somewhere, find alignment, and start being generous now.   "I just encourage business owners who also have capital and investment to think about their investments as business ownership, too, and how that can be applied for the Kingdom." —  Dana Wichterman Episode References: Rich Christians in the Age of Hunger by Ronald J. Sider: https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Christians-Age-Hunger-Generosity/dp/0718037049HOPE International - https://www.hopeinternational.org/The Culture: Upstream from Politics - https://www.oaktonfoundation.com/post/culture-upstream-from-politicsDying to Live: Finding Joy in Giving Yourself to God - https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Live-Finding-Giving-Yourself/dp/0615990762 About Bill and Dana Wichterman:Dana Wichterman spent her career as an international economic development professional at the US Agency for International Development. She currently works at Impact Foundation, helping Christians deploy their charitable capital for impact investing. She serves on the boards of Talanton, Five Talents, and Faith Driven Movements. She is the founder of the Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Investor network in Washington, DC. Dana holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University.Bill Wichterman has spent his career in law and politics, including as Special Assistant to the President in the White House. Bill is the author of the book, Dying to Live: Finding Joy In Giving Yourself to God, and the influential essay, "The Culture: Upstream from Politics." He is co-founder of Wedgwood Circle and Board President of Faith and Law. Bill holds an M.A. in Political Theory from The Catholic University of America. Connect with Bill and Dana Wichterman:Website: http://stewardsnotowners.com/Book: Stewards Not Owners: The Joy of Aligning Your Money with Your Faith - https://www.amazon.com/Stewards-Not-Owners-Aligning-Money/dp/1637633750YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCixnP4QW_IBGI-fsM7Yt2wALinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thewichtermans/posts/?feedView=allTwitter: https://x.com/thewichtermansFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewichtermansInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/thewichtermans/   Connect with Jeff Thomas: Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/Podcast: https://www.generousbusinessowner.com/Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-upEmail: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisorsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUYpPwkHH7JrP6PrbHeBxw

Questions to Consider: 1. In spending this money, am I acting like I own it, or am I acting like the Lord's trustee? 2. What Scripture requires me to spend this money this way? 3. Can I offer up this purchase as a sacrifice to the Lord? 4. Will God reward me for this expenditure at the resurrection of the just? - John Wesley's questions regarding expenditures Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? - Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity Howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org www.givewell.org

Questions to Consider & Points to Ponder: How much money would you need to secure your future against all imaginable eventualities? When our hope begins to migrate towards our finances, then wealth becomes a substitute for God. We need to make some dramatic, concrete moves to escape the materialism that seeps into our minds via diabolically clever and incessant advertising. We have been brainwashed to believe that bigger houses, more prosperous businesses, and more sophisticated gadgets are the way to joy and fulfillment. As a result, we are caught in an absurd, materialistic spiral. The more we make, the more we think we need in order to live decently and respectably. Somehow we have to break this cycle because it makes us sin against our needy brothers and sisters and, therefore, against our Lord. And it also destroys us. Sharing with others is the way to real joy. - Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger givingwhatwecan.org www.givewell.org

Jen and Steve recycle some thoughts from their early marriage about defining God with finite terms. This turns into a discussion about how we need to help end hellish circumstances on this earth and create heavenly conditions now. Book Recommendations: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, by Rob Bell Prayer: Forty Days of Practice, by Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity, by Ronald J. Sider We Were Wrong: An Evangelical Pastor's Radical Transformation Through Following Jesus in the Margins, by Keith Stewart Leave us a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redweatherchristians/message

One of the things I have enjoyed most in the last few years is meeting people from new cultures, whether that be when I am out travelling or when I am meeting my friends who have immigrated to Canada in my own community. The way they see life can be so different, and the stories they bring remind me that my way of doing life is not the only way. In this episode, I am talking to one of my dear friends who has dedicated her life to showing others Jesus and sharing the gospel cross-culturally in one form or another. It is a powerful episode about sharing the love of Christ with those who are moving across the globe right into our backyards, or at least next door. Lorraine answers questions like... What would you say is the difference between working with other cultures in their own context versus when they have immigrated (our own context)? What do you find are the highest needs of our immigrated neighbours and friends? What are some practical ways we can love and serve cross-culturally? Where would you like to see the “Big-C Church” step up to serve and do justice work with those who are of other cultures? Lorraine Taylor grew up in Edmonton, in a house that was not open to strangers at all. At one time there was barbed wire over the gate! When she came to Christ as a young lady, she longed to have a “House of Peace,” where anyone could come over. God granted that desire of her heart when she met Phil and together they began to live a life of hospitality and people poured into their open house. Lorraine has been married for 43 years and she has 4 children and 7 grandchildren. After College Lorraine worked with the C&MA for 25 years in India, Pakistan and Canada. Then they served with FamilyLife, Canada (a ministry of Power to Change) for 11 years leading their intercultural and international ministry. They now lead Connecting Streams intercultural ministry to newcomers to Canada and refugees.  Resources: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A34%E2%80%9340&version=ESV (Matthew 25:34–40) https://www.amazon.ca/Stranger-God-Meeting-Jesus-Disguise-ebook/dp/B0754H8J6W (Stranger God: Meeting Jesus in Disguise) by Richard Beck https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00PWOH5TS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity) by Ronald J. Sider https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B079YB3GF8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World) by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B003U2TWQ8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are) by Ann Voskamp https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0084U0J36/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy) by Larry Crabb Connect with Leah: IG:https://www.instagram.com/leah.rempel/ ( @leah.rempel) FB:https://www.facebook.com/groups/4075541105853974 ( Intentional Women of Faith) Merch Shop:https://www.redbubble.com/people/leahrempel/shop?asc=u ( RedBubble Shop) Template Shop: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/I68Shop?ref=seller-platform-mcnav (I:68 Shop) Have questions for Lorry? Send them to labi68.podcast@gmail.com

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide.A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years.In Massachusetts, a housewife who had hidden her family's mounting financial crisis from her husband sends a note to the mortgage company warning: "By the time you foreclose on my house, I'll be dead." Then Carlene Balderrama shot herself to death, leaving an insurance policy and a suicide note on a table.I. What crisis?The "bubble" has burst. Whether this is a recession, a depression, or worse, conditions have changed in the global economy. There is a pervasive atmosphere of anxiety.During one recent week (in 2008), global stock markets tumbled 7 trillion dollars! This is affecting the entire globe! Everyone is talking. We have felt the crisis, at least indirectly (through our friends who have been hit, and through rising prices).Can affect our faith, too.  (Not to mention marriages.)This is complex! Involves multiple agencies – hard to nail anyone down.We are not going to solve it in a day! -- but we can get a biblical perspective….II. How are people responding to the crisis?AngstFinger-pointing: Democrats! Republicans! Government! God! The Devil! America! Businessmen! Consumers!Disengagement, hopelessnessRefusal to even think about it. Keep head down, keep going…In some places, people have no choice but to think about it. Zimbabwe’s inflation rate recently hit 231m%. Imagine having Z$1m yesterday, and today it’s barely worth $1!“I believe there is God’s justice in action in what’s going on here and we haven’t seen the end of it… We’re going toward a one-world bank and a one-world monetary system, and if you believe the Word of God and you read Revelations… you will see clearly what’s being spelt out, and we are in the end times.” – James Bidgood, Australian MPEasy to give up, either ignoring it or else rationalizing it with a Que será, será attitude.There's a different sort of aloofness, a way to ignore the issues:Some of us are doing just fine, and say “It is a blessing from God,” or “I must be a good person,” or “I am pretty good with money.”But it ain’t necessarily so!Ecclesiastes 9:11. Not everything is so neat and tidy, so predictable! There is a possibility that some of it comes down to chance – Black Swan. God allows some random things to happen.The book of Job: Bad things do happen to good people. Could be a test from God.  Even if he didn’t custom design the crisis for you and me, it can still be a sort of test: how will we respond? James 1:2-15.On the other end of extreme religious reactions, “It is a lack of faith,” as one eminent evangelist said on TV.  Blessing if you get everything you want?  If a child gets everything he asks for?The reality is complex… Many consider money to be a personal matter.  Yet there are more passages on money and wealth and possessions than, say, all those on faith and repentance and baptism combined. So, how we respond is important. Nothing diminishes our need to live responsibly! Here’s where the Bible has a lot to say.III. How does the Bible shed light on the crisis?The financial crises in the Bible offer parallels.Famines had similar effects:In the time of Joseph [Genesis 41-47]In the time of Elisha [2 Kings 6-7]In 1st century Judea [Acts 11:28-30; 2 Corinthians 8-9].These are testing times, driving up prices, straining relationships, affecting families, removing comfort, leading to despair, revealing character.Realize that money is not the answer!“Vanity of vanities” Emptiness! Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless (Ecclesiastes 5:10 NIV).The US government is throwing money at the problem. (Whose money?)  A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life happy, and money is the answer for everything (Ecclesiastes 10:19 CSB)“Daily bread” Moderation – Proverbs 30:7-9 "Two things I ask of you, O LORD; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, `Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God (NIV). See also Matthew 6:11.Balance hard work with generous liberality.Industry – Pull your weight. 2 Thessalonians 3:10: In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: "If anyone isn't willing to work, he should not eat" (CSB).  and yet there is a balancing principle: Kind to the needy, giving to those who ask (Luke 6).Generosity. Keep giving!  Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity (2 Corinthians 8:2 NIV).Although the N.T. does not command any particular percentage for giving, most of us western Christians are able to go beyond the O.T. norm!Note: Some believers have been generous to a fault. Those who are deep in debt and have not spent responsibly may need to give away less of their income until they get their house in order. The ultimate goal, however, is to be a generous giver.Live responsibly.Stewardship. Matthew 25.Study the Proverbs and strive to become a disciplined person.Watch out for materialism.Definition…. PleonexiaIt was the sin of Sodom. Ezekiel 16: 49-50: This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.The Lord never promises financial prosperity. Jesus in Matthew 6 – “seek first…. and all these things…” “You can’t take it with you.” Nothing is ours to keep forever anyway. Don’t spend money you don’t have!“Credit, not debit.”Credit card debt – The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender (Proverbs 22:7 NIV)Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans. If you have no money to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you (Proverbs 22:26-27 CSB).People before things. 1 Timothy 6:7ff. Value relationships. What’s more valuable? Relationships, family… Use things and love people, not love things and use people…Be content.Philippians 4:11. We are still rich.We may have lost a lot. (Though is it only on paper?) But think of the rest of the world; most nations are poor.Be humble. Deuteronomy 8: 6-18: So keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper. When you eat and are full, you will praise the LORD your God for the good land He has given you. "Be careful that you don't forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His command-- the ordinances and statutes-- I am giving you today. When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in, and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases, be careful that your heart doesn't become proud and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flintlike rock for you. He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper. You may say to yourself, 'My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,' but remember that the LORD your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers, as it is today (CSB)Old covenant more physical, material…. Does not apply to us today.Still there are principles to learn:Be humble.We are not self-made people!  Quote from Jim McGuiggan, Genesis and Us.Guard your heart! (Proverbs 4:23)IV. Why should we talk about the crisis?We should talk. This area should not be taboo. Feeling pressure… need someone to talk to. Therapeutic!Even talking with our kids is good…Questions to ask myself about money:How did I get it? (Exploitatively? Legally? Ethically?)What am I doing with it? (All used for my own comfort, or helping others, too?)How is it affecting me? (Enslaving? Holding on to integrity? Distraction?)Questions to ask others:"How is the crisis affecting you?”“How are you handling things?”“Do you have any counsel for me?”We need to talk about this. Take advantage of the greater climate of openness.We need to care enough to ask. People need us to ask…ConclusionLet’s talk about it. This is a great opportunity to connect with people, to get them to open up, to meet them authentically and to minister to them in a place where it hurts.Keep studying for biblical conviction. Turn to God, study the scriptures – as we have seen, they have a lot to say about this matter!Further study:Abraham & Lot (Genesis 12-19) – the contrast of the life of one swayed by materialism (Lot) with one more rooted in the Word2 Chronicles 25:5-10 and Proverbs 6:1-5 – release from unwise financial commitments.The passages on famine in III (1)Proverbs — over 30 passagesLuke – over 30 passages (see Acts, too)Take AIM! Spiritual Life DVD series. Nine speakers bring lessons on a variety of topics, including many vital spiritual and financial principles.Excellent books:Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians Living in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Study (IVP, 1977) and The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005). Deeply challenging.Robert Wuthnow, Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, & Money (Princeton University Press, 1996). Superb.Craig Blomberg, Neither Poverty Nor Riches (Grand Rapids: Intervarsity, 2001). A thorough and scholarly study, with many practical ideas.

This Week on Seminary Dropout… Ronald J. Sider, whose book Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger has been called one of the top 100 books in religion in the twentieth century, is a well-known evangelical speaker, writer, and editor. Holding a PhD in history from Yale University, Ron Sider is president of Evangelicals for Social Action, director […]

In this episode of Signposts, I am joined by Palmer Theological Seminary professor Ron J. Sider, Founder and President Emeritus of Evangelicals for Social Action. In this conversation we talk about the importance of integrity for starting, maintaining, and ending a ministry. We also discuss the danger in viewing people based on what they can do for us, rather than through the lens of the Gospel. The post A Conversation with Ronald J. Sider appeared first on Russell Moore.

In the wake of this week's peace summit in Annapolis, Bill Moyers Journal profiles the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), whose leader Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel. But some say his message is dangerous: "It is time for America to...consider a military preemptive strike against Iran to prevent a nuclear holocaust in Israel and a nuclear attack in America." Bill Moyers Journal reports on CUFI and then gets theological and political context on Christian Zionism from Ronald J. Sider, Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry and Public Policy and Director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary and President of Evangelicals for Social Action, and from M.J. Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis for Israel Policy Forum.