Missing the mark

As parents, many of us go to great lengths to ensure that our children and youths get the best of everything. We sign them up for hockey camps, music and snowboarding lessons, swim teams, tutors and after-school clubs, all in an effort to guarantee their success.

But many of us don't teach our children biblical stewardship. I don't mean to say that we don't practise biblical stewardship or that by our example we don't live out our faith in front of our children. But how often do we talk to our children about financial stewardship from a biblical perspective?

For so many of us, we focus on the tangible, rather than the intangible. We focus on them scoring a goal or hitting …