November 5, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Wonderlane. Used under Creative Commons License. I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine; we’ll call him Young American. You probably know him (or her) as well. Young American is in his early twenties, recently graduated from college, and got his first “grown-up job,” […]

November 5, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Wonderlane. Used under Creative Commons License. I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine; we’ll call him Young American. You probably know him (or her) as well. Young American is in his early twenties, recently graduated from college, and got his first “grown-up job,” […]

April 29, 2012 By bnjewell How do you build a great tower? One brick at a time. One of the pillars of God’s Master Plan for our finances is for us to build a financial inheritance that will continue to work for His good long after we are gone. It’s an idea that sounds great […]

November 5, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Wonderlane. Used under Creative Commons License. I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine; we’ll call him Young American. You probably know him (or her) as well. Young American is in his early twenties, recently graduated from college, and got his first “grown-up job,” […]

January 5, 2012 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Samuel M. Livingston. Used under Creative Commons License. “I don’t have to do anything but die, and live until I do.” That’s one of my favorite things I ever heard my mother say… and believe me, she’s said some doozies. Mom usually says this in response […]

March 18, 2012 By bnjewell If you’ve become a slave to money, it’s not because someone has slipped iron chains around your ankles. It’s because wrong attitudes have infiltrated your heart. Every great failure of the human race can be traced back to the deceitfulness of men’s hearts. The Bible tells us, after all, that […]

November 5, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Wonderlane. Used under Creative Commons License. I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine; we’ll call him Young American. You probably know him (or her) as well. Young American is in his early twenties, recently graduated from college, and got his first “grown-up job,” […]

November 5, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Wonderlane. Used under Creative Commons License. I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine; we’ll call him Young American. You probably know him (or her) as well. Young American is in his early twenties, recently graduated from college, and got his first “grown-up job,” […]

January 5, 2012 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Samuel M. Livingston. Used under Creative Commons License. “I don’t have to do anything but die, and live until I do.” That’s one of my favorite things I ever heard my mother say… and believe me, she’s said some doozies. Mom usually says this in response […]

November 5, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flickr, by user Wonderlane. Used under Creative Commons License. I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine; we’ll call him Young American. You probably know him (or her) as well. Young American is in his early twenties, recently graduated from college, and got his first “grown-up job,” […]

October 27, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flicker by user Jason Rogers. Used under Create Commons License. It has come to my attention recently that, unbeknownst to most Bible translators and Hebrew scholars, there is actually an Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt borrow. It must be a hidden commandment, right? How else would you account for something […]

October 27, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flicker by user Jason Rogers. Used under Create Commons License. It has come to my attention recently that, unbeknownst to most Bible translators and Hebrew scholars, there is actually an Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt borrow. It must be a hidden commandment, right? How else would you account for something […]

October 27, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flicker by user Jason Rogers. Used under Create Commons License. It has come to my attention recently that, unbeknownst to most Bible translators and Hebrew scholars, there is actually an Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt borrow. It must be a hidden commandment, right? How else would you account for something […]

December 30, 2011 By bnjewell Via Flicker, by user Ted Percival. Used under Creative Commons License. Our friend Young American has a problem: Though he has a college degree and a job that pays $30,000 per year, his lifestyle spending is outpacing his earnings, so he is bouncing checks and running up credit card debt. […]