The Jubilee Principle

With the world mired in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, people are desperate for answers. But while politicians and investment gurus are stymied to find answers, author Dan L. White turns to the God of the Bible for wisdom to light the way in today's dark times.In The Jubilee Principle: God's Plan For Economic Freedom, White describes the connection between the Bible and the marketplace. White, an expert on Christian stewardship and founder of the Homeschool Helpers ministry, delves into Old Testament history and shows how God's relationship with the Israelites is a model that can offer spiritual and economic liberation for Christians today.As White examines the economic long wave-a boom-and-bust cycle that happens roughly twice a century in free economies-he uncovers the wisdom of the fifty year Jubilee cycle in the Hebrews' economy. Simply put, this was God's plan to spare Israel of the tumult of financial crises, and we can still learn something valuable from His timeless wisdom today.

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the transcendent and defiant power of jubilee freedom, a freedom that beats the odds against repairing broken relationships and advancing the cause of justice. It will provoke greater consciousness of progress made toward dismantling racism and overcoming hostilities. The book gives witness to the fact that many have traveled and are traveling down a transformative path of strengthening bonds between race, ethnicity, gender, culture, and social location. Moreover, tens of thousands, millions, even multimillions of others, will join the crusade and follow suit. There is no doubt the readers will be inspired by narratives of forgiveness and reconciliation! The scope of the book includes personal testimonies of transformed persons who accepted the invitation to live out the principles of jubilee and honored the call to spiritual awakenings. It offers a challenge to examine how individuals and corporate lifestyles have broken our relationship with God, with each other, and even with ourselves. It calls us into a renewed life in which we can join the apostle Paul in proclaiming, aEURoeIn Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equalaEUR (Gal. 3:28, MSG). The whole premise of this book is based upon my belief that God has and continues to employ a strategy to change the world through reconciliation, forgiveness, and jubilee freedom!

Do you want to grow up spiritually and become strong in spirit, in faith and love, or just stay a spiritual babe? God wants us to be spiritual giants not wimps, and He has provided all we need for our growth in God. This book will reveal God's will and ways to gain a dynamic spiritual life and to promote a consistent growth in grace. Discover the keys that will activate and perpetuate your growth.

This book challenges the church to ask whether or not the gospel as we commonly interpret it today really embodies the jubilee vision of the Bible. Imagine a group of forty adults living in a community, assisting each other to buy houses, sharing material wealth and releasing the surplus to help others as a practical outworking of the biblical principles of jubilee. Kim Tan was part of this group and in The Jubilee Gospel seeks to unpack these principles of sacrificial generosity, stewardship and social holiness. Starting with the OT principle of jubilee and tracing the themes through the Bible, we discover a way of living that reflects Gods justice and compassion and embraces kingdom politics and economics. What may seem buried deep in the early parts of the OT is brought up to date as were confronted by Jesus teaching and principles of wealth distribution, cancellation of debt, hospitality and storehouses.

Jubilee is commonly used today to commemorate important events. However, it has a deeper significance and meaning. The Jubilee tradition, found in the Old Testament book of Leviticus, was an observance that found its fulfillment in the coming of Jesus Christ. Dive into the pages of Jesus, Our Jubilee by Robert M. Solomon and discover how the lessons of the Jubilee can instruct and inspire Christians today. Learn how to walk in liberty and enjoy the abundant life that Jesus has prepared for you.

This book calls for a major paradigm shift in the church’s thinking and practice if the church is to engage with the upcoming generations of the third decade of this fast-changing twenty-first century. Just as the church has had to adapt to a changing context in the past, it now needs to engage seriously with this post-enlightenment, post-human, techno-centric age of artificial intelligence. However, the church also needs to recall its counter-cultural, prophetic role, following Elijah, Jeremiah, Amos, Jesus, and Paul, challenging society as it faces complex dilemmas raised by technology-driven development in these unprecedented times. The church will have to acknowledge unaddressed weaknesses in the past: of identifying with established power rather than vulnerability and the marginalized; of depending on a hierarchical, ministerial order at the expense of the ministry of every believer; of acquiescing to materialist, anthropocentric, and consumerist growth as an undisputable norm. This book develops the vision of a church engaged in the mission of God: of welcoming technological development but with an eye on kingdom values; of promoting innovation, so long as it does not result in a growth of inequality, or at the expense of the environment; of pointing towards a humanity that deepens its relationships with its Creator, its fellow humans, and its environment. The author calls on grassroots believers to reflect and act, within their local communities, as inspired and empowered daughters and sons of God, in the knowledge that following Jesus Christ provides a radical new paradigm for living, learning and leading, in and through these times of epochal change.

Beginning with the historical origins of the jubilee in ancient Israel, this book traces the reinterpretation of the jubilee through the Old Testament, Second Temple literature, and Qumran documents, demonstrating a tendency toward eschatological re-readings with the passage of time.