The 2007 movie The Ultimate Gift begins with the funeral of a wealthy Texas oilman. The scene then shifts to an attorney’s office where the man’s will is being read. It is clear this family does not get along, they do not care about each other, and they obviously did not love their […]
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Enough is as good as a feast. Beware of little expenses. Always taking out of the meal-tub and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom. Ask thy purse what thou should spend. The borrower is servant to the lender. The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor. He is richest
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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
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From The Paradox of Generosity, by Eric Metaxas, December 1, 2014, at: www.breakpoint.org Science confirms what faith tells us: Generosity and happiness go hand in hand. We’re all familiar with our Lord’s words that it’s “more blessed to give than to receive.” As it turns out, this maxim is not only
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by Eric Metaxas, November 27, 2014 blog, at: www.breakpoint.org Between 2005 and 2012, Jason Brown lived what many people would consider to be the American dream. He was a starting NFL offensive lineman, first with the Baltimore Ravens and then with the St. Louis Rams. In 2009, he signed a five-year
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Image above: Alms for the Poor, 1903, Matthaus Schiestl (1869-1939), German ***************************** CHARITY IN WORDS AND DEEDS; From the life of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Johnson’s Deeds of Charity; from Stephen Danckert, The Quotable Johnson, Ignatius Press, 1992, p. 15: Johnson’s later years were characterized by extraordinary holiness and compassion, manifest in the most ordinary
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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). ————– It had been more than a year since I had seen her. We’d had our share of good conversations when our kids had attended Christian school together,
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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 out
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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
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John Wesley (1703-1791): “O ye lovers of money, hear the Word of the Lord. Do you suppose that money, though multiplied as the sand of the sea, can give happiness? Then you are ‘given up to a strong delusion to believe a lie’– a palpable lie, confuted daily by a thousand experiments. Open
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