Money and happiness are not mutually inclusive. Will Rogers said, “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” Benjamin Franklin noted, “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a […]

“Then he said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions’” (Luke 12:15 NIV). Many wealthy people wish they had friends. Some of the most prominent people in the world are some of the saddest people on earth. […]

The heart and attitude of a blessed person are worth examining. Blessed people are set apart in many ways because they have learned how to be blessed. We all have the opportunity to receive the blessing of God and be under the shadow of the Almighty if we so desire. The blessed person gives of […]

“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (I John 3:17 KJV) A 19th-century folktale is set in a small shtetl in Russia, where a terrible cold front was causing extreme suffering to the […]

Lack of contentment gets a lot of people into trouble. Remember the Ten Commandments? These instructions (guidelines for good living) were etched in stone for Moses to deliver to the people. Specifically, the tenth warns of the destructive power of greedy materialism. In essence, it is telling us not to let what we don’t have […]