The man was wealthy and young. Luck had gone his way, and he had amassed a large amount of money and property. He used his money in make more investments and purchase his way into the power structures of his community.
Those who knew him believed him to be an upstanding and religious person. If Time Magazine had been around then, he might well have made the “Man of the Year” cover because of his accomplishments. Continue reading How much can I keep?
In the 1830’s Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this about the United States. “Individualism is a word recently coined to express a new idea…Individualism is a calm and considered feeling which disposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his fellows and withdraw into the circle of family and friends; with this little society formed to his taste, he gladly leaves the greater society to look after itself.” Continue reading The Importance of Community
A friend said, “I really like to watch his program on Sunday morning.” He was talking about a popular televangelist–coiffed hair, expensive suit, huge megachurch, beautiful wife at his arm.
The preacher’s Sunday morning message is something like, “God wants you to be fabulously rich and happy.” That may be the reason my friend likes him. Who doesn’t want to be fabulously rich and happy? Continue reading Health and Wealth Gospel
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