There's a bumper sticker that reads, "I'm starving on the salary I once dreamed of". Funny how that can happen - I see it all the time. People yearning for more, eventually earning more, and then being no better off than they were before financially, because they continue to spend every penny. In fact, their …
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Money Plan
There are three primary components to any effective financial stewardship process. Good money managers learn how to spend money wisely, as well as save and give it effectively. Money is a tool and like any tool and resource, learning how to handle it makes all the difference in the impact we can positively make with …
Knowledge Is Power?
We've always heard knowledge is power, but is this really true? For we have also been told there are street smarts and book smarts. Is one better than the other? Clearly, knowledge is better than ignorance, but I submit that even those with the most knowledge, aren't very powerful until they begin to apply what …
Stressed?
I routinely have the opportunity to speak at events where many of the attendees are over the age of fifty. Although, I'm not quite fifty yet, my age group does share something in common with several of those in attendance - the notorious mid-life crisis! This life event tends to strike those in their 40s …
“Let It Go”
Why is the song, Let It Go, from the movie Frozen so popular? Some studies have already been done to try and figure that exact thing out. One theory suggests it could be because it speaks to the internal burdens we all choose to carry around, which exhaust and strain us. So, when we seize …
Break Out and Sprout
As we know, the one who sows sparingly also reaps sparingly. Therefore, since the opposite is also true, Christians possess a powerful motivation for generosity (2 Corinthians 9:6). Yet, there remain those times we may be tempted to restrict sharing the gifts entrusted to us due to our self-imposed fear of limited reserves. Thankfully, selfish …
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