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Stewards Who Give · Book One
What Does Your Giving Actually Prove?
What giving can reveal, what it cannot prove by itself, and how generosity fits the larger biblical story of stewardship.
Books & Resources
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Books nearest to publication
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Bible Study & Interpretation
Bible Study Without Guessing
A beginner’s guide to understanding context, testing interpretation, and applying Scripture faithfully.
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Bible Study & Interpretation
Putting the Pieces Together
A reader-facing resource for connecting passages, themes, context, and the larger shape of Scripture.
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Church & Ministry
Serving Together by Design
Women in ministry and church leadership: teaching, preaching, deacons, elders, and serving together.
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Christian Living
Ready to Forgive, Not Ready to Pretend
A careful distinction between readiness to forgive and the relational conditions involved in trust, access, and reconciliation.
Active Development
The broader MMC publishing slate
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In Development
Stewards Who Give
A canonical series on stewardship, giving, responsibility, worship, provision, and care for others.
- Before Law There Was Giving and WorshipStewardship, vocation, worship, offerings, responsibility, Abram’s tenth, and generosity before Sinai.
- Old Testament Tithing & GivingWho gave, who benefited, provision for ministry, care for the vulnerable, and what Israel’s giving structures actually required.
In Development
Discovery Exegesis
Book-by-book studies designed to help ordinary readers see how meaning arises from the biblical text itself.
- EphesiansIdentity in Christ, unity, new life, households, and faithful resistance.
- GalatiansThe gospel, justification, promise, law, freedom, and Spirit-shaped life.
- PhilippiansPartnership, Christ-shaped humility, perseverance, joy, and contentment.
In Development
Bible Study & Teaching
Tools for readers and teachers who want context, careful interpretation, and text-grounded application.
- How to Read the Bible in ContextLiterary, historical, canonical, and discourse context in reader-friendly language.
- Did You READ That Verse Before You Used It?A direct challenge to verse-level misuse and the habits needed to test familiar claims.
- Text-Grounded ApplicationMoving from meaning to formation and application without becoming mechanical.
- When the Bible Seems to DisagreeA careful approach to apparent tensions, competing explanations, and textual questions.
Research & Future Publications
Work underneath future books and articles
Research projects demonstrate where MMC is developing deeper material without presenting that work as a finished retail product.
Genesis 4:3–8
A scholarly study of Cain and Abel, minḥāh, the movement from gift to giver, the warning of verse 7, and the repeated brother motif.
Genesis 14:17–24
A study of Abram’s tenth, ANE tribute parallels, vow logic, distribution, and what the episode contributes to biblical theology of giving.
Stewards Who Give: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship and Giving
A larger research project tracing stewardship and giving across the canon and supporting the multi-volume series.