Introduction
1. Mother Teresa, A Simple Path, comp. Lucinda Vardey (New York: Random House, 1995), 99.
2. Jim Carrey, “Quotable Quotes,” Reader’s Digest, March 2006, 81.
3. David Platt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoicm4wnQ4c&feature=player_embedded.
Chapter 1 The Question We Must Ask
1. K. P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions: One Man’s Journey to Change a Generation, English Language ed. (Carrollton, TX: GFA Books, 2009), 83.
2. K. P. Yohannan, No Longer a Slumdog: Bringing Hope to Children in Crisis (Carrollton, TX: GFA Books, 2011), 85.
Chapter 2 Jesus
1. John Thornton, Jesus’ Terrible Financial Advice: Flipping the Tables on Peace, Prosperity, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Chicago: Moody, 2016), 124.
2. Max Lucado, God Came Near (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1987), 7.
3. Tom Nelson, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011), 90.
4. Thornton, Jesus’ Terrible Financial Advice, 167.
Chapter 3 When There’s Too Much or Not Enough to Go Around
1. Wikipedia, s.v. “North–South Divide,” last modified October 16, 2017, 11:54, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North–South_divide.
2. John Piper, A Hunger for God: Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer (Wheaton: Crossway, 1997), 25–26.
3. J. D. Walt, “The Severe Mercy of a Pre-emptive Judgment,” Seedbed Daily Text, October 20, 2016, https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=02db73c05fa1c7c5736358be4&id=b36ea32403&e=bd33d08296.
4. Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016), 69.
5. Voskamp, The Broken Way, 30.
Chapter 4 Is Our Extra a Blessing or a Test?
1. Mahatma Gandhi, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17453-whatever-you-do-will-be-insignificant-but-it-is-very.
2. Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2001), 11.
3. Alexandra Sifferlin, “Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad about Yourself,” Time, January 24, 2013, http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/24/why-facebook-makes-you-feel-bad-about-yourself/.
4. Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2003), 94.
5. Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most (New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2010), 107.
6. David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2010), 111.
7. Alcorn, The Treasure Principle, 75.
8. Platt, Radical, 217.
Chapter 5 Giving Our Homes a Generosity Overhaul
1. Martin Luther King Jr., The King Center, April 9, 2013, http://www.thekingcenter.org/blog/mlk-quote-week-all-labor-uplifts-humanity-has-dignity-and-importance-and-should-be-undertaken.
Chapter 6 The High Cost of Giving Our Lives Away
1. John Piper, “Embrace the Life God Has Given You, Desiring God, March 10, 2017, http://www.desiringgod.org/embrace-the-life-god-has-given-you.
2. David Platt, “IF: Gathering - David Platt - 2016,” March 28, 2016, video, 30:42, https://vimeo.com/160686752.
Chapter 7 Why We Keep Paying the Price
1. Catherine Wilson, “Raising a Cheerful Giver: Teaching Children to Give Generously,” Focus on the Family (Canada), 2014, http://www.focusonthefamily.ca/parenting/school-age/raising-a-cheerful-giver-teaching-children-to-give-generously.
2. Timothy L. Smith, “10 Examples of Generosity in the Bible and How to Follow Them,” Crosswalk.com, December 12, 2016, https://www.crosswalk.com/church/giving/10-examples-of-generosity-in-the-bible-and-how-to-follow-them.html.
Chapter 8 The Happiest People Alive
1. Jill Suttie and Jason Marsh, “5 Ways Giving Is Good for You,” Greater Good Magazine, December 13, 2010, http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/5_ways_giving_is_good_for_you.
2. Colleen Walsh, “Money Spent on Others Can Buy Happiness,” Harvard Gazette, April 17, 2008, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/04/money-spent-on-others-can-buy-happiness/.
3. Suttie and Marsh, “5 Ways Giving Is Good for You.” See also Shankar Vedantam, “If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural,” Washington Post, May 28, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701056.html.
4. Suttie and Marsh, “5 Ways Giving Is Good for You.”
5. Amy Wallace, “New Study Shows It’s Better to Give Than to Receive,” UPI, February 14, 2017, http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2017/02/14/New-study-shows-its-better-to-give-than-to-receive/1771487098057/.
6. Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson, The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 43.
7. Kevin Leman, Have a New Kid by Friday (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2012), 18.
8. J. D. Walt, “Why Sharing Is Not the Answer—And What Is,” Seedbed Daily Text, May 9, 2017, https://www.seedbed.com/why-sharing-is-not-the-answer-and-what-is/.
9. Jennie Allen, Restless (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2014), 124.
Chapter 9 What’s Really at Stake?
1. John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton: Crossway, 2010), 101–2.
2. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary (1882), s.v. “Nehemiah 2,” accessed August 2, 2016, http://biblehub.com/commentaries/jfb/nehemiah/2.htm.
3. Raechel Myers, “At the King’s Gate,” She Reads Truth (blog), February 5, 2015, http://shereadstruth.com/2015/02/05/kings-gate/.
4. Ann Voskamp,“Why You Are Where You Are: For Such a Time as Now,” Ann Voskamp (blog), June 18, 2013, http://annvoskamp.com/2013/06/why-you-are-where-you-are-for-such-a-time-as-this/.
5. Ann Voskamp, “How We Could Get to Be the Kind of People the World Needs Right Now,” Ann Voskamp (blog), October 11, 2016, http://annvoskamp.com/2016/10/how-we-could-get-to-be-the-kind-of-people-the-world-needs-right-now/.
Chapter 10 Storing Our Treasures in Heaven
1. Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2001), 40–41.
2. Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2003), 45.
3. Randy Alcorn, Heaven (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2004), 128.
4. An Exposition of the Bible: A Series of Expositions Covering All the Books of the Old and New Testament, vol. 6 (n.p.: The S.S. Scranton Co, 1907), 622.
5. Alcorn, Heaven, 166.
6. Abigail Van Buren, The Best of Dear Abby (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1981).
7. Randy Alcorn, “Our Eternal Home,” Thriving Family, August/September 2013.
8. Randy Alcorn, The Treasure Principle, 31–32.
Chapter 11 A Family Soul-Care Plan
1. David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2010), 7.
2. Timothy Keller, “Sabbath Rest,” Daily Keller, March 11, 2015, http://dailykeller.com/sabbath-rest/.
3. Timothy Keller, King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus (New York: Dutton, 2011), 43.
Chapter 12 The Answer
1. “Mother Teresa of Calcutta,” Crossroads Initiative, September 4, 2016, https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/saints/quotes-from-blessed-mother-teresa-of-calcutta/.
2. Richard Stearns, The Hole in Our Gospel: The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009), 60.
3. David Platt, Radical, 111.
4. Simon Parry, “The True Cost of Your Cheap Clothes: Slave Wages for Bangladesh Factory Workers,” Post Magazine, last updated March 31, 2017, http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1970431/true-cost-your-cheap-clothes-slave-wages-bangladesh-factory.