What does Tribe teach about financial provision?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on financial provision is grounded in a specific story from Brian Hunter's own life, and in the conviction that God's methods of provision are often chosen precisely because they leave no room for any other explanation. Brian and Lissa moved from Alpine to Tulsa in 2007 so Brian could start college at 35. One month they found themselves short on their bills, with no clear way to close the gap. A large tropical bird landed on their apartment balcony, the kids named it Pecky, and when Lissa spotted a lost-bird reward sign, returning the bird put money directly in her hand. Brian says the reward was "the exact amount that we were short that month." Lissa has noted that the provision did not simply fall from the sky. There were steps of obedience required before any of it appeared.
The deeper teaching underneath that story comes from Psalm 78 and the account of God bringing water from a rock in the wilderness. Brian walked the congregation through the full range of options God could have used: moving camp, digging a well, causing rain, filling every flask, making a spring bubble up from the ground. God chose none of them. The point was that water from a rock admits no alternative explanation. It had to be God. Brian also draws attention to the fact that Israel had almost no framework for trusting God at that moment, so the faith behind the miracle was not theirs. It was Moses striking the rock in obedience, and Israel received the blessing. That pattern, receiving provision through someone else's act of faith, runs through the New Testament as well, in the friends who carried the paralyzed man to Jesus.
The tradition of Pecky Day exists because Brian and Lissa believe that keeping a record of specific moments when God came through is not sentimental. It is preparation. Brian says, "When you remember, it is a weapon." The teaching in Habakkuk 3 reinforces this: the prophet asks God to act again as He did in years gone by, which is only a prayer you can pray if you have held onto what He did the first time. At Tribe, Pecky Day is the congregation's annual practice of doing exactly that.
Taught from Psalm 78:1-16 · Habakkuk 3:1-2 · Habakkuk 3:17-19 · Joshua 4:1-7 · 1 Corinthians 10:4
“When you remember, it is a weapon.”
From New Wine, New Wineskins
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:4
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- November 17, 2025 New Wine, New Wineskins Pastor Brian Hunter shares how remembering God's past faithfulness arms us for today's battles, using the story of water from the rock and a surprising $750 miracle.
- November 16, 2025 Pecky Day Brian Hunter shares how God made water pour from a rock in the desert, and why remembering past provision arms us with real faith for today's battles.
- December 5, 2022 Pecky Day at Tribe Brian Hunter shares how a tropical bird, a reward sign, and $900 taught his family to remember God's provision, and why Tribe celebrates that story every year.