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In a recent survey, Wells Fargo has discovered the biggest regrets of wealthy investors. The survey questioned 1,983 respondents with $250,000 or more in investable assets. The top regret these investors have is simply wishing they had done a better job of investing. The second two regrets are interesting…

Dave Earley says, “Relationships can be understood as bank accounts. Realize it or not, you have a relational account with every person within your sphere of influence. Every positive interaction makes a deposit in that account. Every negative dealing with a person makes a withdrawal in your relational…

“Five years after the name Bernie Madoff became synonymous with extravagant fraud, the only thing that makes him unique is the size of his swindle,” according to Al Lewis of Marketwatch.com, Ponzi schemes are discovered all the time. The scam is classic: “Lure investors with promises of solid returns…

Building Materials for Eternity: A story is told of a wealthy man who labored with many tasks here on earth and produced beautiful palaces in which he lived sumptuously, though selfishly, all his life. This man accepted Christ on his deathbed. He had a gardener whose life did not “consist in the abundance…

Conventional wisdom has always held that if you are looking for a good investment in a down economy; put your money in “sin” stocks. The thinking is that though people will cut spending in some areas, they will continue to spend on activities like gambling, drinking and smoking. The current US recession…

RICHES/TREASURE When the state of Oklahoma celebrates its centennial in 2007, a Plymouth Belvedere buried in a concrete vault in 1957 will finally see the light of day again. The car is underground next to the Tulsa County Courthouse. It was buried along with other common items from 1957. Old news reports…

A man named Walter once invited his friend Arthur to go for a ride through some undeveloped land in southern California. They drove through some groves of trees and past some ramshackle buildings before they arrived at what looked to Arthur like barren wasteland. Walter began telling his friend about…

Many of our non-Christian friend and neighbors, however, may not know anyone with whom they can unburden their soul, and they don’t know how to reach God. So God sends you and me to be “God” to them, to be as available and compassionate to them as Jesus Christ is to us. Such encouragement is a matter…

3. Super-Sized Philanthropy As the fast food commercials tell us, this is a super-sized world. In 2006, that was especially evident in the philanthropic world, where the biggest charitable donations started with "b," as in "billion." First, Bill Gates announced he would retire from Microsoft to focus…