History
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849. Freedom, for her, was not a finish line. She returned south again and again —…
Courage · Identity · Calling
Tubman · Luke 15 · Philippians 2
History
The man who reverse-tithed
R. G. LeTourneau, 1888–1969
R. G. LeTourneau built the earthmoving machines that carved highways and airfields. He also treated money as a tool he did not own. Over time he and his wife gave away 90 percent of their income and kept 10 — a reverse tithe — and still funded a college and factory floors full of workers. He liked to say he shoveled money out and God shoveled it in, and God had the bigger shovel. The line is folksy. The books are not: the giving was real, public, and sustained. Stewardship, in his life, was not a tip. It was the operating system.
How you’d preach it
Use when the text is about money as worship, not as a fundraising close. Distinguish LeTourneau’s freedom from a prosperity formula. The point is ownership: if it is God’s shovel, the congregation’s grip can loosen without a speech about guilt.
- Generosity
- Greed
- Calling
Letourneau · Luke 6
Luke 6:38; 2 Corinthians 9:6–8