I am an avid Lakers fan. Growing up in the 70s, I remember laying on the living room carpet and watching Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, Happy Hairston, Gail Goodrich, and Jim McMillian with my dad. As a Lakers fan, the 80s were an incredible time for basketball. Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Scott, Cooper, …
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A Case for Sick Time Over Personal Time Off (PTO)
I can see the eye rolls and hear the comments through the internet; another boomer has a controversial opinion about employee benefits in today's dynamic and diverse work environment - just stay in your lane, church budget guy. Fair enough, but hear me out because I've been around long enough to …
Don’t Pass Up These 2 Simple Opportunities To Increase Year-End Donations
I gave my life to Jesus in October of 1985; I was 21. That December, I attended something called a cantata at the church I was attending. Their annual Christmas cantata was a musical production filled with traditional Christmas Carols to usher in the spirit of the season - to celebrate the birth of …
Church Budget: When a Gift is Considered Income
Unless your name happens to be Herod or Scrooge, Christmas usually brings out the best in people. You can hear them humming carols in the checkout lines of stores, smiling while allowing others to merge into traffic in front of them, dressing in festive clothes, joyfully gathering with family …
Retirement Changes for 2024
Anyone looking for a masterclass in finance simply needs to read the book of Proverbs found in the Old Testament of the Bible. There are well over 100 references to money, wealth, prosperity, poverty, and contentment. Recently, my wife and I spent time re-reading these timeless words of wisdom, and …
Church Budget: The Need For Commercial Insurance
Here's a fun question for the leaders in your church: what's the worst thing imaginable that could happen to your church? And if that happened, how would the church respond? The list of horrific things that could happen probably mounts pretty fast: things like a fire that partially, or worse, …
