From Motley Fool comes this — 3. Avoid lifestyle inflation Millionaires recognize the tendency to spend more as they earn more. Instead of looking to buy a bigger home or the latest car model, millionaires can be relatively frugal. They may not be concerned with keeping up with the Joneses. As a result, they often avoid…

From Motley Fool comes this — 2.  They focus on raising their income Millionaires understand that 20% of $250,000 is better than 30% of $100,000. They don’t focus just on saving but look to increase their salary and create multiple streams of cash. Because the more you earn, the more you can save. According to…

Yes, as my uncle told me when I was a little kid, “A million is not what it used to be.” Nonetheless, from the source Motley Fool comes this — 1. Save a lot of money Millionaires are frugal. Contrary to popular belief, most millionaires don’t own a yacht or drive around in a Rolls Royce. Instead, they…

New year. Clean slate. All that. Post-holiday. Bills. All that, too. By way of a warm-up to what I hope and pray will be a helpful week with some nuts and bolt stuff, some Scriptural background…if it’s not linked there on your device, simply copy and paste and search and there you go — https://pushpay.com/blog/25-bible-verses-about-managing-your-finances/…

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. “Nice, Joe, nice.” “Uhm, that’s Romans 5:8.” God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

If you’ve not yet ready yesterday’s offering here, please do. Tom Fuerst has much to say there to all of us. and I do mean ALL of us. What he wrote will give you some helpful context for this, which is from me — Reaching way back more years than I’ll readily admit, here’s a…

Tom Fuerst recently wrote and shared this (as usual, the highlights are mine) — I believe it is a fundamental misunderstanding of the pastor’s job to assume that s/he is primarily paid by the church to meet the church’s endless felt needs in a Capitalist society. We run ourselves ragged fulfilling everyone’s desires, playing PR…

Pastor Tullian Tchividian wrote and shared this last night — Every New Year’s Eve, we raise a glass, scribble a list, and promise ourselves that this time will be different. We’ll lose the weight, mend the relationships, hustle harder, and finally become the person we’ve convinced ourselves we need to be. But beneath the polished surface of these…

With gratitude to Stephanie Pierce who pointed me in this direction — Christmas Story on Times Square billboard screens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INse1lhgZGA and Christmas Story on billboard screens internationally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISbSzWkOSP0 — and yes, thank you, I’m very aware that these productions are not United Methodist in origin. That’s another topic for another time. —- As we move…

EXCERPT: “People put so much emphasis on living more in chronological years,” says Loeckenhoff, the Cornell professor. “People should ask themselves: Why do they want to live longer? What activities that matter to them would they want to spend those extra years on?” SOURCE: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/life-expectancy-longevity-wealth-1f15a18a?st=j7e6rV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink AND SO? What say you? As always, I look forward…