Money

Our Great Wealth

The top ten percent of Americans make half the nation’s income. They also pay seventy percent of the nation’s income taxes. We are under the impression that the rich are getting richer and the ...

The King’s Bracelet

Opportunity knocks. We’ve heard that before. Yet, it’s true. Opportunity knocks, and it’s up to us to take advantage of it. The thing is, to take advantage of something has a double meaning. ...

Having a Great Abundance

Jesus lived an adult life of abject poverty. He owned nothing, gave away what he had, and depended on the largesse of others for the barest of ...

The World’s Birthright Becomes Ours

There’s no denying the riches found in the world. Just visit Vegas. Diamonds shimmer from every wrist, and money flows like green ...

Why does God give us success? We can count on one thing. It’s not to enable us to live a life of ease and luxury. It has nothing to do with exquisite automobiles or sprawling McMansions. God gives ...

God’s Magnificent Storehouse

The United States at the end of 2012 had 30.5 billion barrels of crude oil in reserve. That’s in addition to the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, which can store an additional 727 million ...

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Raising God’s Bar

Google the standing high jump at the Summer Olympics, and we learn it’s been on the program every year since 1896. However, the record jumps for men and women have been set in the past two decades. ...

Balancing Our Spiritual Scales

We know of the holy men of God, those who seek the Father to the exclusion of all else. There are holy women out there who are just as ardent. We’ve seen the opposite, too, Christians who ...

Musical Chairs

When we play games, they are often just that. In Red Rover, we try to keep our opponents from breaking our line. Hide and Seek does exactly what it says. We search for the hidden player. Freeze Tag? ...

One Television Too Many

Flat panel televisions are all the rage. Forty-six inch? Ahh, that’s last year’s model. Let’s go for the sixty inch. In addition, we have apps that can turn our smart phones and tablet ...

The Good Flood

The Aswan Dam was built in Egypt in the 1960s for flood control, irrigation, and hydroelectricity. It worked beautifully, holding back a vast reservoir known as Lake ...

Our Charge Account

Easy credit helps the American economy go round. It helps us ease the tight months and have things when we need them, not when there’s lots of extra money in the bank. Yet, to make this work, we ...

Chipmunk Cheeks

A chipmunk is a rodent that gathers seeds, nuts, and small fruits. Each autumn, it begins to stockpile foods for ...