and our own understanding of our place and potential as Children of God, created in God’s image. He expertly takes to task tacitly accepted beliefs in civil religion which virtually and inappropriately suggest that Jesus was a capitalist. It is a provocative, pastoral contribution to both the church and the academy. This book is a necessary addition to the libraries of conscientious pastors, students, and laypeople who are interested in real transformative biblical stewardship.”
- Peter Wherry, D.Min.,
Senior Pastor, Mayfield Memorial Missionary Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC
“Dr. Hill dares us to believe that the invisible economy of God is more real than the visible economy of man. If we honor the Life Rhythm, the Giver of every good and perfect gift will supply us with more than just tangible riches from His heavenly bank.”
- David Long,
Director of Stewardshsip, Southern Union Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, Decatur, GA
“This book exposes a key conflict in the mind of man and a most important difference between the thinking of God and the thinking of man. If we as humans could reorient our minds according to the blueprint laid out in this book, our lives would be significantly happier, more successful, and our worship to and with God would be more rewarding.”
- Robert W. Wernick,
Retired Comptroller, Cobalt International Energy,
Ottawa, TN
“Worship is the byword of the true follower of Christ. Dr. Roland Hill effectively articulates the correlation and significance of the Bible Sabbath with God’s gift of wealth. His consistent spiritual insight into Scriptural values ties together in this volume theology and Christian practices in a profoundly unique way. This work is worthy of your acquisition for spiritual development and biblical understanding on the subject of God’s view of wealth and worship.”
- Samuel Thomas, Jr.
Periodical Marketing Director Review and Herald Publishing Association, Hagerstown, MD
“If anyone has any doubts about their self-worth or value, this book is a must read. God has truly manifested Himself in the pages of this book with Kingdom principles and concepts about how one can be truly wealthy through a proper worship connection. The concepts are not only clear but also refreshing, reassuring, and restoring, especially in a world where doubt, fear, and confusion seek to constantly manipulate the mind.”
- Charles Sanders,
Stewardship Director, Southwest Regional Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists, Dallas, TX
“This book is fresh revelation; wealth and worship redefined. Wealth is a gift. Worship reveals and releases the gift. Sabbath rest is optimization technology for a world full of people spinning out of control chasing the wind of worship-less wealth. Read this book and reset for true wealth. Thank you big brother for yet another quantum leap in my understanding of God’s love.”
- Hallerin Hilton Hill
Radio Talk Show Host,
Knoxville, TN
“In worldwide economic uncertainty, there is a need for an encouraging, faith-centered proclamation from the Christian community. This is it. Dr. Roland J. Hill (my Dad) boldly provides a theologically sound, practical, upbeat economic forecast. From the opening bell, the book grabs you and lays out a comprehensive, fresh look at stewardship.”
- Mian R. Hill
Hospital Chaplain, Morton Plant Hospital,
Clearwater, FL
“I was not expecting what is “reveled” in Dr. Hill’s latest book. All of his writings over the years have been profound, but this creative, unexpected revelation on wealth produces a series of “aha” moments for the reader. It is literally a complete paradigm shift from the typical musing on wealth. The memory cards---those pungent and poignant points of reference scattered through the book---are along the “mother lode” in this docudrama of a book. From the opening pages, one is pulled into a reflection not about wealth, but about God, and His place in it all. “
Fredrick A. Russell
Senior Pastor- Berean SDA Church
Atlanta, Georgia
WHY THIS BOOK?
This is a motivational book. I wrote this book for the primary purpose of inspiring the reader with the ideas that have kept me excited, productive, and passionate all of my professional life. Like you, I have experienced the ups and downs, the bad and the good, the failures and successes, but it has been this understanding of wealth that has kept me balanced, buoyant, and blessed. No, I haven’t written this book to help you become a millionaire, even though I do know God will entrust the gift of millions to some who read and live out the principles in this book, I’ve written this book to inspire you. My major concern throughout this book is to help you, the reader, see yourself as God sees you: valuable, worthy, and thus wealthy. My heart bleeds as I watch the masses of people caught in the pursuit of material wealth at the expense of their worship of God, only to be disappointed either by never getting material wealth or by the emptiness they discover once they obtain it.
I really do believe wealth is a gift. Once I unearthed this wealth concept in the Sabbath mine, I was free to live my life unchained by the illusive pursuit of material wealth. Honestly, coming to this understanding hasn’t been easy, because I, too, have had to fight against ideologies that war against this God philosophy. I struggle, like you, to keep balanced in a world that tells me that I’m worth something only if I have something, a world that pushes me to believe my self-worth is tied to my net worth, and that views me as something of worth based on my pedigree, posterity, and pigmentation. But it has been the Sabbath truth that confirmed in me who I am, whose I am, and what I am truly worth. The weekly pilgrimage to worship God has been my wellspring. It has been my water at the bottom of the financial barrel, my well in my financial deserts, my reality check in my financial success. What I am sharing with you in this book is from my heart, gleaned from more than five decades of walking with God and nearly forty years of ministry. The information discovered in this book is grounded in the infallible wisdom of the ages, the Bible and illustrated by three original fables that I have written about Shabbat, The Worker Bee, to rivet the concepts in your mind. Personally speaking, after reading dozens of wealth creation books and economics textbooks, I found the Bible to be the best economics textbook ever written, outlining the soundest principles on wealth creation. I believe there is a triple blessing (spiritual, social, and financial) awaiting you as you read this book. Be blessed.
- Dr. Roland J. Hill
INTRODUCTION
For nearly forty years, I have worked through, meditated on, researched, and studied biblical concepts of wealth in my search for the truth about wealth. It has been a difficult journey through the jungle of wealth misinformation that exist outside of the Bible. The truth about wealth is tangled up, tied up, and hidden in the undergrowth of non-biblical philosophies many of which are unsuitable for Christian consumption. This book is the clearing in the jungle. I have chopped away much of the undergrowth so that you can see and experience the true meaning of wealth. You will discover that wealth is a gift. It is not something you earn, but something you receive. Only after hacking through the thick jungle of wealth misinformation with my biblical machete (large cutting tool used in the jungle) did I come to understand this revolutionary concept about wealth as a gift. Ironically, for many years, even as a Sabbath observer, I was lost in the jungle of misinformation about wealth. I read good books on wealth creation, but I never discovered the Mother lode. I kept cutting away the thick choking vines of the Puritan work ethic, the boot-strapping philosophy, and the prosperity gospel, searching for wealth’s true meaning. I felt, at times, like Indiana Jones in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, as I chopped down long-standing trees of religious tradition and overgrown shrubs of New