No one questions the emphasis on obedience in the Old Testament. Its teaching on the ... We preach, teach, give a tithe or more, go to the mission field, may even be willing to die for the faith ...
(Council of Trent, 13th Session) Before going into the Gospels, let us consider a few Old Testament prefigurements ... Afterward Abram gave him a tithe (Gn 14:20). In Hebrews 5:10, St. Paul ...
I have known a church that taught tithing was 'owed' to God ... without expectations or obligations. The New Testament gives us a wonderful picture of generosity and extravagant giving, without ...
For more on Joshua’s faith and leadership, see Volume 89. Then, recently in 249, we discussed Joshua’s most famous verse: “As ...
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...
In the first public airing for a would-be class-action lawsuit over tithing, church attorneys tried to convince federal Judge Robert J. Shelby that the legal doctrine of religious autonomy should ...
What does the Bible actually say about tithing? This video explores the origins of the 10% rule, its biblical context, and how it’s applied in modern religious practices.
A federal judge blitzed lawyers on both sides with questions Friday during a three-hour hearing in a lawsuit brought by 13 ...
Well, this could be difficult. Attorneys for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints argued in federal court that allegations of fraud involving billions of dollars in tithing collected over ...
Lynn Carlson, CEO of Gemini Corps in Pasco, is the recipient of the 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award. Carlson is CEO ...
Tithe maps and their accompanying awards can be particularly useful for studying local and community history, providing a record of the landscape and its inhabitants as they stood in the mid-19 th ...