Giving: Time and Talents | Genesis 1:26-31 | 1 Peter 4:6-11 | Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon notes:

  1. Stewardship: “Someone who has authority over people or possessions, or is entrusted with a certain task.”

  2. Acts of stewardship are a response to who God is.

  3. Stewardship of your time & talents is giving of yourself.

  4. God gives good things to all his people regardless of their response to him.

  5. Two ways to think of stewardship: in my everyday life; serving God.

  6. The best ability is availability.

Sermon summary:

In the beginning, God created everything. Everything that is in existence belongs to him. Humankind has been blessed to be stewards or caretakers over God’s creation. A response from all that God has given us: to take care of what God has given, and to use it to bring God glory.