RENT A FRIEND It is said that Rupert Brooke, the English poet, was about to depart Liverpool for New York when he noticed that the other passengers on the ship he was on had friends…
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TITHERS TURN THE TIDE by Betty Lou Steffy Temple Tithers Team Together to Thwart the Terrible Tempter's Treacherous Tricks to Taboo Tithing. Tempter Twists Truth Through Tantalizing Techniques - Tries to Tell Tithers to Try…
HOW TO REPAY DEBTS When Herbert Hoover was a student at Stanford University, he was a poor boy and had to work his way through college by selling newspapers, running a laundry service, and doing…
RICH ENOUGH He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable.
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S MONEY Cecil Rhodes, the Diamond King, knew where he was going. Long before he ever amassed that huge fortune, he made out a will to dispose of it. That is…
LAWS & AXIOMS OF LIFE Rush's Rule of Gravity: When you drop change at a vending machine, the pennies will fall nearby while all other coins will roll out of sight.
LAWS & AXIOMS OF LIFE Thom's Law of Marital Bliss: The length of a marriage is inversely proportional to the amount spent on the wedding.
TRUE WEALTH A person's true wealth is the good they do in this world. -- Bendixline
THE VALUE OF BODY & SOUL In the 1985 the International Herald-Tribune carried an article by William R. Greer of the New York Times Service on the value of human life. He began with a…
NO HUMAN LIMITS There are no limits to human ambitions or securities. From The Self & The Dramas of History, by R. Niebuhr, pg. 21
THE TREASURER & TITHING A church in Kansas needed to replace its treasurer. The deacons asked one of their members, the manager of the local grain elevator, to take the job. "I'll do it on…
During a period of economic recession, Sam, a construction worker, was asked by a co-worker for advice on how to manage his budget. “This is how I do it,” Sam said. “I budget forty percent…
“The love of money is the root of all evils” (I Tim. 6:10). There was a pretzel stand in front of a big office building in New York City. “PRETZELS 25 CENTS,” read the sign.…
“…in their greed they will exploit you with false words” (2 Peter 2:3). In the Board Room of a highly profitable business, the question of employee bonuses for lengthy and meritorious service was debated. When…
“Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions” (Luke 12:15). A major U.S. industrial giant made a…
“I tell you solemnly, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 19:23). Composer Rudolph Friml once turned on the radio and was outraged to hear one of…
“Watch and be on your guard against avarice of any kind for a man’s life is not made secure by what he owns, even when he has more than he needs” (Luke 12:15). Oscar Wilde…
“Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your…
“How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God.” (Luke 10:23). There is the story of an old man on his deathbed. His sons had gathered around him for…
“Keep your life free from love of money...” (Hebrews 13:5). Biographer Philip Guedella often lectured on the art of writing biography. He used to say that a biographer ’s most difficult task is finding out…
