Money More Important Than Life?

Author and financial advisor Suze Orman writes:

When I was 13, my dad owned his own business—a tiny shack where he sold chicken, ribs, hamburgers, ...

Money Is My God

What is the chief end of man? To get rich. In what way? Dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold ...

Giving Benefits You, Not God

I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say, "There-now ...

Money Can Complicate Faith

Warren Bailey died July 14, 2000, at age 88. He had no family. And he wasn't much of a church-going man. To the best of anybody's recollection ...

See What You Have

If Danny Simpson had known more about guns, he might not have needed to rob the bank. But in 1990, in Ottawa, Canada, this 24-year-old went to jail, and ...

Test of Materialism

"The real point of materialism is not how much we have, but what has us. It's not what we hold, but how tightly we hold it. Not what we have, ...

Pursuit of Happiness

In Dangers, Toils & Snares, John Ortberg writes:

When we take our children to the shrine of the Golden Arches, they always lust for the meal that comes ...

Reading Your Obituary

In literature the story is told of a man who opens a newspaper and discovers the date on the newspaper is six months in advance of the time he lives. ...

White Collar Thieves

A number of people from my church had gone out for dinner, and as we each put in our money to pay the bill, one person told a story that reveals much ...

Freed from Greed

When a fourth-century desert Egyptian monk named Macarius returned to his monastic cell one day, he found a thief stealing the few possessions he owned. ...