Here are a series of links that I've come across in the last day:

• internet monk points to this sermon by John Piper. Some of his stats are out of date - check out more recent ones at www.leadnet.org, but he rightly points out that "church planting and concern for the poor... are issues ...that those who follow Jesus should not ignore".
  
  
• Bill Kinnon points to the good measure project. Or as Bill says with tongue firmly in cheek "you could just keep giving to your church to help it build a bigger facility. God knows we all need bigger facilities."
  
  
• brother Maynard has a great post on money

All three are worth reading and thinking about... and maybe even doing something about, especially as the season of excess selfish spending arrives.