Generosity isn’t just about giving—it’s about having a heart like God’s. I had boxed generosity into neat categories—donating, tithing, and occasional good deeds. But God’s generosity isn’t structured—it’s extravagant, spontaneous, and unlimited.

Decades ago, when I was single, I could make financial decisions, go on vacations, or indulge in an expensive hobby like flying an airplane without consulting anyone. However, as a husband and father, I must be accountable to my wife regarding how I choose to spend money.

“Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.” — Proverbs 3:9–10. This Proverb offers practical wisdom for how believers can approach financial decisions with a heart of worship.

The Church emerged in the context of the Roman Empire. It’s gone, but the Church remains. Stalin once dismissed the Church by asking “how many  (military) divisions does the Pope have?”. Stalin and the Soviet Union are gone, but the Church remains.

What’s the most valuable thing in your life—and could it be something money can’t buy? We live in a culture that tells us money is the ultimate scorecard—more equals better. But deep down, we’ve all seen the limits of wealth.

Life is marked by transitions—childhood to adolescence, singleness to marriage, parenting to the empty nest. In every shift, we experience both joy and grief as we leave behind one season and step into another, often an uncertain one.

You Can’t Take It with You was a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1936 comedic play by George Kaufman and Moss Hart that became an Academy Award–winning movie in 1938. It is about a highly eccentric extended family whose curious members involve themselves in any number of complicated situations.

What does it mean to be a Christian in the marketplace? There is a spectrum from just being a Christian in business and investing, to having a Christian impact through business and investments.

For most people, happiness is defined emotionally. It is equated with laughter, optimism, security, well-being, and the like. The trouble with those definitions is that they are based on circumstances that can easily change. Some circumstances make us happy, and others make us unhappy. To be consistently happy, we need a definition that is not subject to circumstances.

Poet Percy Green once wrote that “a man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.” There are probably some literature professors that would debate the following summation, but a simple way of explaining Green’s lines is that it’s better to take action than simply talk about it.

What would happen if, every 50 years, the economy gave everyone a fresh start—land returned, debts erased, and the playing field leveled? This isn’t utopian fantasy. It’s the biblical concept of Jubilee, a radical social and economic system outlined in Leviticus 25.

What if I told you that grit isn’t just about working hard—it’s also about stewardship and wise investing? The Bible teaches us that success isn’t just about talent or intelligence, but about consistent, disciplined effort over time.