money

Blog by Randy Alcorn, January 30, 2015, at:  www.epm.org      While many people may believe the statement “money can’t buy happiness,” nearly everyone would like to put that theory to test!  People will almost always believe wholeheartedly that they would become immensely happy if only they had more money.      As I write […]

  By Caryn Rivadeneira, in Christianity Today, October 2014, pages 56-58 (edited).  She is the author Broke: What Financial Desperation Revealed About God’s Abundance (InterVarsity Press).  Visit her at:   http://www.carynrivadeneira.com See also: http://www.onfaith.co/onfaith/2014/05/05/what-i-learned-about-being-wealthy-by-going-broke/31953 ————–      It had been more than a year since I had seen her.  We’d had our share of good

  Everyone knows that money cannot buy happiness, but few live as though they believe that.  Therefore, they are unable to be satisfied with what money they do have, no matter how much it may be.  In this, more than in any other area, we see the truth of what Samuel Johnson said when he pointed

    Everyone knows that money cannot buy happiness, but few live as though they believe that.  Therefore, they are unable to be satisfied with what money they do have, no matter how much it may be.  In this, more than in any other area, we see the truth of what Samuel Johnson said when he

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) was a Dutch Christian who, with her family, helped many Jews escape the Nazis in the early 1940’s.  She worked in her father’s watch-making business in Holland, and they hid Jews in their upstairs apartment until they could get out of the country.  They were betrayed by a neighbor, arrested, and

     St. Marcella (325-410 A. D.) was born into a wealthy family of considerable influence in ancient Rome.  Then, she married a man of wealth and influence.  Marcella was primed for a life of pleasure, recreation, and relaxation in the very upper levels of Roman society.  Less than a year after she was married,

      In Luke 12:13-15 there is the story of man who believed that Jesus would be the right person to settle a family dispute.  “Teacher,” the man says, “tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”  The man is so sure he is right that he doesn’t even ask Jesus’ opinion.  He