Money

Turning Loose of What We Love

Moving across the country can be a traumatic affair. What do we keep? What do we let go? The pressure is compounded if we’ve lived in one place a very long time and accumulated a treasure trove of ...

Pulling Down the Wealth

In retirement planning, excess cash in the bank is a wasted investment. It simply sits there, useless, losing value with each passing day. It needs to be invested in a money-making ...

The Drowning Stone

Marriage is often referred to as that old ball and chain. Work can be a dead end. A car, a lemon. What’s a drowning ...

Sharing Our Windfall

We all dream of riches. We hope to win the lottery. Or perhaps Great Aunt Claire will leave us fabulously wealthy. Maybe we will invent that indispensable tool that everyone has to have. Suddenly we ...

Our Gifts to God

Huguette Clark died in 2011. A vastly wealthy heiress, she died in seclusion in a hospital room at the end of a very long life, yet she maintained numerous empty mansions, one of which she never set ...

Fortune or Misfortune?

In 2012, a man in Illinois won $1 million in the lottery. The story goes that he was so excited he leaped 2 feet in the air and tipped the store clerk ...

The Gift of Work

There is a restaurant chain known as T.G.I. Friday’s. We have hump days on Wednesdays. We live for weekends and holidays. Yet, without our jobs, we could not survive. Think back on television ...

The Name Game (part 2 of 2)

If we stepped outside the mall and found our car gone, how would that impact us? What would we lose besides our car? Trust? Security? Belief in ...

Pay It Forward

To open the message, look around you. Without a doubt you could name five blessings God has given you in the past year. Our God loves us and blesses ...

Great Wealth

What should our goal be in amassing wealth? How much is enough, and how much is too much? Mother Teresa lived in abject poverty, owning only one sari to her name. She impacted the world for good. ...

The Name Game (part 1 of 2)

What do we need from God? Housing? Food? Employment? How about a good ...

Returning God’s Blessing

Sometimes it feels like everyone has a hand in our pocketbook. The cable company is on autopay, the gas pump debits our account twice a week, and taxes knock us for a loop every ...