In this week’s episode from Nehemiah 5:14-19, Pastor Daniel answers the question: What does it look like to be a generous leader? Nehemiah sets the example here by being generous with his finances, his time and his words. Listen for practical ways to be generous in leadership.

In Pastor’s Perspective, Pastor Joe Williams talks about how important it is to fear God over man and to please Him in our leadership. You have to answer to God. Trying to please man is a snare. How do we avoid abusing our authority? Some straight talk from Pastor Joe.

“God made all of His creation to give. He made the sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds, the earth, the plants to give. He also designed His supreme creation, man, to give. But fallen man is the most reluctant giver in all of God's creation.” - John MacArthur

“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” - Corrie Ten Boom

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. - 2 Corinthians 8:9

Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure & trouble with it. - Proverbs 15:16

“A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God’s.” - Tim Keller

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.” - C.S. Lewis

“[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.“ - Hudson Taylor (Missionary)

“For it is in giving that we receive.”  - St. Francis of Assisi

“In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.” - Charles Spurgeon