SALARY SECURITY The personnel manager said to the job applicant: “We keep salaries low so you won’t have so much to lose if you get fired.” Anonymous author
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BUDGETS GET IT DONE If you can get it into the organization’s budget, then you’ve won. If you can’t get it into the budget, it will be extremely difficult to
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DEPTH OF GOD’S LOVE There’s an event that took place that scared a young couple in our church yet expresses God’s love for us and God’s willingness to come to
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FRIENDSHIP WITH THE MONARCH The story is told of Shah Abbis, a Persian monarch who loved his people very much. To know and understand them better, he would mingle with
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KOSTNER ON FAME According to the wire reports, Kevin Kostner has gobs of money and heaps of acclaim following the success of his film Dances With Wolves. Recently he was
GENERATIONAL VIRTUES An audience of parents was asked by the speaker for a definition of success. The answer was happiness, feeling of fulfillment, self-satisfaction, identifying and achieving goals. He gave
ESSENTIAL PRIORITIES A nationwide survey asked what things were essential to those who were polled. Here were the results: Good income – 60% Satisfying sex life – 71% Successful career
LOW- MAINTENANCE KISSES A woman who was approaching her four-score and ten years was always blessed with little gifts from her friends and relatives for her birthday and Christmas which
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DRIVING A HARD BARGAIN There was a man in Indiana who had a way of taking his own advice, though he generally had to do things afterward to get even
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ATM WINNINGS My six-year-old daughter wanted to help when I stopped at our local bank’s automated teller machine, so I let her push the proper buttons. When the money came
Appearance | Assumptions | Children | Humor | Money | Perspective | Success | Winning Read More »
THE BODY IS BACK The body of a man who died of cancer was dumped on his son’s doorstep after the son was unable to pay the full price of
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STOP BUYING HOTELS The tough new sales manager went over the expense account of a salesman just back from six weeks on the road. “Can you explain this item on
LIMITS OF COMMUNICATION After many years of wanting an automatic-teller card, I finally got one. The first time I used it was at a bank machine in a nearby college
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PUT SAINTS INTO CIRCULATION The story is told that during the reign of Oliver Cromwell the government ran out of silver coinage. Cromwell sent his men to a cathedral to
LOSS OF INSPIRATION Jay Rothman is suing the Hopeless Romantics flower shop in his native Los Angeles, California because they blundered the delivery of flowers and a note he wrote
MISPLACED VALUES A child simply underestimates the proper worth of things. A number of years ago, I asked Marci (she was about five then) what she would buy if she
TOO MANY OBLIGATIONS A pastor approached one of the wealthiest members of his congregation about making a pledge to the church. The man informed the pastor that he had many
Generosity | Giving | Greed | Money | Offerings | Pledges | Self | Stewardship | Story Read More »
A THANKFUL HEART A thankful heart doubles our blessings, causing us to enjoy them twice, when we receive them and when we remember them.
BLESSINGS IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE A businessman had an angel come to visit him who promised to grant him one request. The man requested a copy of the stock-market quotes for
GIVERS ARE NEVER ALONE Christmas is the one time of year we count our money not to measure our own security, but to see how much we can give. Once
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