Hello everyone, last week on my podcast I talked about whether a Christian should tithe.  That was a very important discussion because the vast majority of churches teach that Christians should tithe and that if you don’t you are cursed and robbing God.  As we saw, there are several reasons to tithe, and because of them I tithe and I do agree that everyone should tithe.  But I think we should teach tithing correctly and not improperly use fear of punishment or curses to encourage people to tithe.  That full teaching about tithing is on the Byron Howell Ministries podcast, and please consider listening to it. While tithing is probably the number one financial teaching in the Church today, the second most common financial teaching is called “seedtime and harvest.”  The simple idea behind seedtime and harvest is that if you sow a financial seed God will bring a financial harvest into your life.  While this core idea is Biblical, this concept has been imprope...

Hello my friends.  I hope you have all been doing well.  Today we are going to talk about a variety of topics, and some popular verses, and I hope we are all going to learn more about living in God’s plans for our lives.  God’s plans for our lives is definitely one of my favorite subjects, and I hope you agree that it’s pretty important.  God truly does have a wonderful plan for each of our lives, but it won’t happen automatically.  We need to do our part and seek God’s will for our lives.  That said, I think we get the wrong idea about His plans, and I think we make this subject out to be far more complicated than it really is.  Or even if we don’t make it too complicated, we don’t get enough practical advice as to how to start living it.  The older I get, the more I believe we can easily find God’s plan for our lives.  At least we can easily get started. If you have heard any of my previous teachings on this subject, you may recall my p...

When I was younger my father took me skiing in Colorado every year.  One year he wore snow boots that were too small for him, and he developed ingrown toenails.  He had to have some procedures on his toes, and his toenails on his big toes never looked the same.  He also said it was extremely painful.  So basically I grew up with a fear of ingrown toenails.  Ever since, I’ve always been careful about my shoe sizes and about trimming my toenails.  But even with this fear and preventative efforts, I’ve had a couple times where I’ve had to get the nail tools and dig out the side of my big toenail.  If any of you have had to do that, you know it’s not fun.     The other morning I woke up about 5:30 to take my dogs out.   As I started to walk I felt the worst ingrown toenail pain I have ever felt.   The pain was shooting all through my toe.   This made no sense because I hadn’t done anything recently to cause it, but there it ...