Monthly Archives: September 2023

The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity: in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground. –Deuteronomy 28:11 Here’s the Find A Grave article on my rags-to-riches ancestor. UPDATE: 12/24/23 – The best marketing methods … Continue reading →

All toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.   –Ecclesiastes 4:4 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to … Continue reading →

1. ANTI-SUPERNATURAL ATTITUDE. 13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. … Continue reading →

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity…and there is nothing new under the sun. –Ecclesiastes 1:2, 9 (NKJV) Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you … Continue reading →

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. —Proverbs 1:7 He said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” And he told them … Continue reading →

— William Matthews, Getting On in the World, p. 204. Irvin Wyllie, The Self-Made Man in America, ch. 7 to Epilogue. Paul and Sarah Edwards, Secrets of Successful Self-Employment. — Business owners are the most frequent of all high-income groups … Continue reading →