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What Sam Walton Teaches Us About Money, Success, and Family

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Recently I came across an article about Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart.  It was a very interesting read, and I found some things I never knew. After doing a little further digging about Wal-Mart I found an article quoting George Will, who had this to say about the company: “[They] are the most prodigious [...]

What Does It Mean to Store Up Treasures in Heaven?

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What could be better than the American Dream? A steady job.  Money in the bank.  A hefty 401k for retirement. Couple that with a nice house in the ‘burbs, a white-picket fence, two kids, a dog, a Swagger Wagon for mom and a sedan for dad - Life couldn’t get any better than that – right? But is that really all there [...]

10 Guiding Principles For The “New Retirement”

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A new retirement is here.  The retirement landscape has changed! There.  I said it.  But you already knew that didn’t you? Things are different than they were three years ago in 2007, when the Dow Jones was above 14,000, your home increased by 15% every year and cats and dogs played nice together! But now, [...]

True Wealth – Defined.

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True Wealth is a topic that’s been on my mind lately. I think it’s because I have been challenged  over the last couple years by this and have been trying to sort through my own definition of true wealth and its implications for my life. In 2007 things were going well.  Business was increasing, I was making [...]

Why Busyness Is Eroding Your True Wealth

Personal Finance

Ask 100 people how they’re doing and count the number of times they say, “Busy!”.  Busyness seems to have become some sort of idol in our culture. But why are we so busy?  Many times it’s because we work insane amounts of hours every week - why?  Just so we can get ahead. But does building your earthly kingdom [...]

The Paradox of Money and Satisfaction

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I usually spend weekend posts looking at key money passages in the Bible.  I’ve found that I spend a lot of time in the New Testament. This weekend we jump to the Old Testament for our money passage. Ecclesiastes is a famous book that takes a look at life with pessimism, optimism, paradoxes and hammers home the [...]

What Makes People Happy?

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Wouldn’t you agree that happiness can be elusive?  I mean, doesn’t it seem like it’s what we all strive for and yet many of us never find it. It’s like the tighter you try to grab hold of it, the more we choke it to death and never receive it.  The more you run after it, the [...]

What is True Wealth?

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  Each weekend I like to provide for of a devotional style post that includes a few verses on money and occassionally the study notes to help with further reflection. These past two weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about true wealthand what exactly that means.   I deal w ith money and people’s attitudes with [...]

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