From his column It's Your Money My father died on March 20. He was the oldest of four and, in our family, the last of his generation. My brothers, sister, and I are now the ones responsible to continue ...

From his column It's Your Money I’ve heard the assertion several times, “Since God instructed us to not worry about tomorrow (Matthew 6:34), it violates His will to plan for retirement.” Can this be? ...

From his column It's Your Money The return address read “Internal Revenue Service.” Oh, no. What does that mean? I opened the envelope to read the summons. My wife and I were invited to meet with ...

From his column It's Your Money The full-color graphic on the front page of the Kansas City Star was nothing like I expected for a Thanksgiving Day (2009). A tiny, token cartoon turkey sat on the top ...

From his column It's Your Money Our eagerness to serve masked our lack of experience and know-how. Here we were—ten members of a Work & Witness team in a foreign land with the responsibility to set ...

From his column It's Your Money I stood in the exhibit hall at the 2009 General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene in Orlando. As I gazed across the large room, I heard someone say, “Hello, partner.” ...

From his column It's Your Money For months, the financial crisis has dominated the news. Pundits speculate on the bankruptcies of automakers and the ripple effect it may have on the economy. City officials ...

From his column It's Your Money On a beautiful spring afternoon, just a few weeks before we received our high school diplomas, my friend invited me to go flying with him. He had just qualified for his ...

From his column It's Your Money We might never have known about them had they not left sizeable gifts to a university, library, or nonprofit organization. But the institutions shared the good news. When ...

From his column It's Your Money The trip to the home improvement store could not have gone more smoothly. In one minute I walked from the car to the outdoor security light bulb I needed. Turning, I walked ...

From his column It's Your Money The gasoline nozzle failed to automatically shut off. Fortunately, I stood nearby and quickly clicked the trigger. Unfortunately, I stood nearby and had petroleum splatters ...

From his column It's Your Money Until I went to college, I only knew life in a parsonage. Early in my father's ministry, the congregation rented a house for $10 per month. I heard that story often. His ...

From his column It's Your Money A winter storm moved into town one Saturday evening about 10 years ago. Our son, Jason, came home early from his job at the pizza joint; business was slow. The freezing ...

From his column It's Your MoneyWednesday, January 3, 2001, started like no other day in my life. It was like Epiphany came three days early that year. If animated, a cartoonist's rendition of that morning ...

From his column It's Your Money My eyes latched on the headline: "Many Boomers Lack Retirement Fund." My wife, Judi, and I had just been talking about retirement. The day before, we had returned from ...

From his column It's Your Money Yesterday, I proofread the section of the NTS Connection with photos of the 2007 graduates from Nazarene Theological Seminary. Part of my responsibilities at NTS includes ...

From his column It's Your Money The title screen fades to the establishing shot with the camera positioned low to the ground. Raindrops plunge into a puddle on the asphalt. A couple walks by, visible ...

From his column It's Your Money Our daughter, Karla, and husband, Grant, are expecting their first child. They've already started making changes. She's snacking on crackers and raisins throughout the ...

From his column It's Your MoneyMy parents never shook the dust of the Great Depression from their world view. I can't begin to count the number of times I heard one of them say, "You never know when there ...

From his column It's Your Money Starting to invest late in life is better than not starting at all. My father has more money today than he earned in 31 years of pastoral ministry. And he’s given tens ...