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This came home to me a many ago when I was living in Nashville, Tn. I was teaching music in a Christian school and was out for the summer. As so many teachers do, I had, of necessity, found me a summer job. I had started my own business named Russell’s Jetspray in which I would go around to different…

2010 - Average American income - $50,000/year Average World income - $7000/year

This is a book by Paul Zane Pilzer. It’s entitled God Wants You to Be Rich. Pilzer tells you in that book how and why God wants you to be rich in every possible way – in health, love and peace of mind, as well as material possessions. He argues that every individual’s success promotes the good of overall…

“If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.” T.W. Burger

And there have been many reactions to its power. It was Karl Marx, the father of Communism who said that the power of money must be destroyed. He railed against money as the corrupter of life when he said: . . . what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but…

As we’ve already said, our culture takes the opposite approach. We don’t want to destroy the power of money, we worship it. Mark Twain said, “Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.”

Did you hear about the guy who needed money. He was a big thinker. If he was going to risk counterfeiting money, he was going to make it worth his while. If his scheme worked, he’d give the cashier a big bill and get real money in exchange for fake money. So he decided to pass off not a counterfeit $100…

While working as a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, Lee Strobel was assigned to report on the struggles of an impoverished, inner-city family during the weeks leading up to Christmas. A devout atheist at the time, Strobel was mildly surprised by the family's attitude in spite of their circumstances:The…

Napoleon is portrayed by the artists he commissioned to memorialize him as a strutting little man, standing defiantly with his right hand pushed between his vest buttons or as a hero astride a fiery steed, pointing the way for his troops to cross the Alps. His bicorn hat made him instantly recognizable…

When you haven't any coal in the stove and you freeze in the winter And you curse to the wind at your fate. When you haven't any shoes on your feet and your coat's thin as paper And you look thirty pounds underweight, When you go to get a word of advice from the fat little pastor, he will tell you to…

This can be a hard lesson for some: Isak Dinsen wrote a wonderful story called Babette’s Feast. In a strict, dour community in Denmark, Babette worked as a cook. Her dream is to return to France where she was once a chef for nobility. Every year she buys a lottery ticket in hopes of striking it rich…

First is in a sense, Invisible Money. This is money that you have, but you don’t have it to spend as you would like. Think about the $5 your mom gave you when you went on a field trip in elementary school: “Now, David, don’t lose this money or spend it. Take it to school and give it to your teacher.…

THE RICH FAMILY IN CHURCH By Eddie Ogan I'll never forget Easter 1946. I was 14, my little sister Ocy was 12,and my older sister Darlene 16. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with seven school…

The Law Of The Pocket If no one has come up with this spiritual law before, I’ll call it Jeremiah’s Law of the Pocket and introduce it right now: “Personal possessions expand to fill the empty space in all available pockets.” As I use the pocket as a metaphor for our lives, see if you don’t agree. It…

Man finds $140,000, then his conscience By Ari B. Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 10, 2008 Though in debt and in need of the money, landscaper Eli Estrada turns it in to police. Last month, Eli Estrada found $140,000 cash in the street on his way to work. The $20 bills were unmarked,…

August 5, 2007 In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich By GARY RIVLIN MENLO PARK, Calif. — By almost any definition — except his own and perhaps those of his neighbors here in Silicon Valley — Hal Steger has made it. Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million.…

In A Life Well Spent … Russ Crosson tells a fictions story that I want to close with this morning. … I think you’ll find it brings perspective on how we should be living now … as priests of God. … Fully committed to Him. He writes … “It began as an uneventful Sunday morning. Jim had been calmly sitting…

Marty Koonce is our missionary to Togo Africa, but before he accepted the call to be a missionary, he was a manager at Wal-Mart and on the rise in that company. But he felt God’s tugging to do more with his life – to take God’s good news to people across the globe. How do you give up a six figure income…

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 full-time on his $30 billion…

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." ~ John Buchan "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us." ~…

The 60 richest Americans have fortunes totaling an estimated $630 billion, of which only a little over $7 billion has been pledged to charity. Source: Philanthropy Today 3/1/07

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…

The Only Country Ours is the only country in the world where people pay $200,000 for a house and then leave it for two weeks every summer to sleep in a tent.

Nebuchadnezzar was the mighty king of the Babylonian Empire between 604 and 562 BC. Numerous cuneiform tablets and ancient texts speak of his wondrous achievements and prideful character. “Look at this, Babylon the great! And I built it all by myself, a royal palace adequate to display my honor and glory.”…

Comparisons of Google to a freight train that defies the laws of physics are looking apt right about now. By all rights, such forces as a slowing economy and increased competition from new search engines and social networks should be dragging on the company's growth. That's what they're doing to rival…