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Smart Church Finances: A Pastor’s Guide to Budgets, Spreadsheets, and Other Things You Didn’t Learn in Seminary is unavailable, but you can change that!

What can the Church learn from the business world? You’re a leader of a ministry, nonprofit, or church. You trained to be a faithful counselor, preacher, interpreter of God’s Word—so why do you find yourself spending so much energy on administration tasks that threaten to drain your time, energy, and joy? Look to this book for the coaching you needed, yesterday. Written from years of ministry...

In this parable, the servants are given five, two, and one talent(s) respectively. While we no longer use the term “talent” (talantŏn in Greek) to communicate monetary value, these servants were given significant amounts of money to invest. A talent is equal to anywhere from sixty to eighty pounds of precious metal. If it was silver, that would equal sixteen years of wages an average person would earn. If it was gold, it would equal 493 years of wages. We are talking about substantial amounts of
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