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.

John MacArthur once said, "Everything we have is on loan from the Lord, entrusted to us for awhile." The Bible teaches that God is the Creator and Owner of everything—from mountains to the smallest creatures.

Many Christians see ministry roles as more spiritual than business or everyday work. But is that a biblical view?

Insurance in all its forms is protection against the possibility of loss or damage. It involves the transfer of risk from one party to another based on compensation from the insured to the insurer. For thousands of years, various forms of insurance have been used—an acknowledgement of the human desire to avoid the impact of negative events in life.

We are four generations in our family. I have two daughters, now in their mid-30s. I also have two granddaughters. Yes, I am a grandpa. And my mum is 91 years old so we are four generations, from a toddler to a grand old lady.

Have you ever felt like life—or the stock market—is cutting away at everything you’ve built?

If business and investing primarily are about making money, I’d suggest drug trafficking. Or even human trafficking which is even more profitable. Hopefully you will think or shout: No, never! I won’t do that.