As of the day I am writing this post (4/19/21), the flagship Eventide Gilead Fund, a leading fund in the Eventide family of Biblically-based, Christian mutual funds, is up an incredible 90.97% in the last 12 months. The Eventide Healthcare and Life Sciences Fund is up 65.5% in the last year, and the new Eventide Exponential Technology Fund is up 67.78% since inception. (Past performance is not a guarantee of future results, we know.)  It is not very easy to tithe, say, week by week on investment gains, but it would be appropriate to do it once a year, if not more, perhaps analyzing end-of-year statements.

Some people may be used to tithing on income from their employment but just do nothing with investment gains (and losses). This is not Biblical. If your IRA or other investment vehicle now has $190,000 in it when a year ago it had $100,000, you have gotten $90,000 in “increase” (-1.7% for yearly inflation, so actually $88,000 in real gain) and you are to “tithe” on your “increase” (Deut 14:22, 28; 26:12; 2 Chr 31:5)–and do so cheerfully and with thanks to the Lord who has blessed you, not just tithe on your weekly or bi-weekly employment income. (The reverse would also hold true for investment losses.)

Don’t withhold the firstfruits that belong to the Lord, but make sure that in this year of very strong gains in the financial markets you honor the Giver of all good things with at least 10%, if not much more, since we are not under the law, but under grace.

–TDR