Many Christians get nervous about the topic of giving.

Some feel convicted about their materialism, lack of generosity,

while others simply fear that they will be gilded into giving more money.

However, in today's Advent sermon from 2 Corinthians, chapters 8 and 9, David Platt reminds us

that our giving should be motivated by God's grace.

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over at our website radical.net. When God's gift of his own son frees us to give for the glory of God and the good of others.

Here's David with an Advent sermon titled Grace for the Giver from 2 Corinthians

chapters 8 and 9.

Well, if you have a Bible, and I hope you are somebody around you does that you can look on with, if you have a Bible, I'm invite you to open me to 2 Corinthians Chapter 8.

2 Corinthians Chapter 8, feel free to use table of contents if you need to,

to find 2 Corinthians Chapter 8.

As returning, I want to greet those of you who are at our

Prince William campus as well as Loudoun and Montgomery County on Main Avenue and

in different micro sites around Washington it's good to be together with God's word. We're in the middle of an Advent series thinking about the coming of Jesus as we anticipate Christmas.

A week and a half from now, following along in an advent guide that we've

handed out at our campus, all of our campuses over the last couple of weeks.

If you didn't pick one of those up, it's not too late, you can pick one up on your way out today here at other

campuses use it for the next ten or so days but today we come to a verse from

that advent guide 2 Corinthians 8 9 that from that

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