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The Emptiness of Wealth
Chuck Bentley, CEO of Crown Financial Ministries, writes:
Living only to acquire more is a foolish proposition. The story of a dear friend's father ...
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I Subscribe, Therefore I Am?
A journalist for the BBC named David Lee recently moved from America to London. Rather than haul his stuff, he said, “I’ve become one of life’s ...
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Why We Become So Attached to Our Belongings
Our excessively materialistic culture has not gone unnoticed by researchers. Journalist and author Francine Russo offers a roundup of the primary research ...
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You Can't Take It with You … (Chevy Edition)
During his five decades running a Chevrolet dealership in Nebraska, Ray Lambrecht held onto his customers' trade-ins (and quite a few new models too), ...
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Where Do We Find Contentment?
John Rosemond, a funny nationally syndicated columnist—and also a family psychologist—likes to take unusual informal polls of parents. Whenever ...
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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, ...
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You Can't Always Get What You Want ...
In his book Maverick, Ricardo Semler tells of a lesson he learned working at Semco: "We were in yet another meeting ... when we came to the purchase ...
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Don't Clutter
Don't own so much clutter
That you will be relieved
To see your house catch fire.
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Open Hands
The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate (the) spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies ...
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A Fuller Life
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might ...
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