ORIGINS OF MONEY The origin of the word “money” has an interesting history. In Roman mythology, Juno Regina was supposed to be the wife of Jupiter, and the queen of […]
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KEEP WHAT YOU GIVE AWAY There is a story about a Methodist layman who gave $100,000 to build a college in Liberia in the early 1920’s. By the 1940’s the
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THE UNWILLING GIVER From my vantage point on the platform during the worship service, I viewed the struggle from start to finish. At first I quietly chuckled, but then realized
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GIVING, HOPE AND APPRECIATION In Lee Iacocca Talking Straight, he shares a number of stories about raising funds for the Statue of Liberty project on the occasion of the 100th
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LEADERSHIP PROVERBS Better a poor man with faith in Christ than a rich fool with confidence in money. From The Encourager, Friends Church, Charles Mylander
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A DEAL YOU CAN’T REFUSE The story is told (though not fully authenticated), that some years back Colonel Sanders went to Rome and arranged for private audience with the Pope.
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CHARITY Without charity, the outward work provideth nothing; but whatever is done out of charity, be it ever so little and contemptible, it is all made fruitful, inasmuch as God
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JUST ADD WATER In his book called America on Six Rubles a Day, the comedian Yakov Smirnoff writes: Coming from the Soviet Union, I was not prepared for the incredible
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FRIENDSHIP – SERVICE OVER SHOWING OFF I like the story told about Sam Rayburn who was Speaker for the House of Representatives longer than any other man. One of his
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ON THE CHEAP A minister was exhorting his flock to support foreign missions. One man loudly objected, “I don’t approve of foreign missions.” “But surely,” the minister countered, “You know
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THE OPTIONS “Why do we give so much to missions while we are paying such high interest on the building debt?” That is a good, fair question. Here is the
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WEALTH We are told we must work and use our talents to create wealth. “If a man will not work he shall not eat,” wrote St. Paul to the Thessalonians.
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FROM THE PORTABLE CURMUDGEON Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. John Ciardi. The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases;
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WAITING ON GOD Here is another version of a story you may have heard before. . . Several pastors were telling each other how his church determined how the offerings
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ON PRAYER Are we so substandard to New Testament Christianity that we know not the historical faith of our fathers (with its implications and operations), but only the hysterical faith
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A GOOD BET The minister felt sorry for the old man he saw in the park through which he walked to his office every morning. It seemed the world had
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SIGN IN A BANK Don’t kiss our girls. . . they’re tellers!
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MAY I CHECK YOUR WALLET, SIR? Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on NBA commissioner David Stern’s new five year, $27.5 million contract: “All I know is that on airplane
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WHAT ARE YOU MAKING? While visiting a Swiss town, an American businessman watched a man painstakingly carving the casing for one of the fine cuckoo clocks made in that region.
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THE HIGH COST OF LOVE The rancher’s daughter had just broken off her engagement with a young doctor. “Do you mean to tell me,” exclaimed her girl friend, “that he
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