While writing my book “Milestone of Financial Freedom“, little did i know that i was risking my relationships with certain people around me. My family gave me all the support i needed and i will forever be grateful for that. It was the people that knew little about me that had trouble with me and [...]
Be A Hero This Father’s Day
June 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Happy Fathers’ Day to all the fathers out there. Those who still have fathers, please don’t forget to give them a call or visit (and a gift or two). They deserve it. As a father, your children look up to you as a hero because of the things they see you do for them – [...]
Peace On Earth … And In Your Wallet
December 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The spirit of Christmas is peace - peace on earth, goodwill to all men. Christmas is a time of giving and sharing with the less fortunate. Over the last 70 years commercialism of the festive period has given many the license to indulge in consumerism instead of being others-centred. People now go all-out to try [...]
Compassion Sunday 2010 – A Success
September 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I informed you last week that i will be introducing the congregation at my church to the work of Compassion International; well i did it today and it was wonderful and well-received. Someone may thinking “what is so great about that – afterall you’re already a motivational speaker?” If it is for something people can [...]
A Compassion Moment That Will Bless You
September 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have only done it for two years but Mark has sponsored this ‘child’, Jimmy Wambua, for almost two decades. The video below shows the moment that Jimmy Wambua met Mark, his Compassion Sponsor of 19 years, for the very first time. It is a joy to watch. Can you do something to change the [...]
Do You Know Why People Don’t Give To Charities?
September 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I was listening, a few day ago, to a radio conversation between financial guru Dave Ramsey and best-selling author Max Lucado (his latest book is Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference) about charitable giving habits of people which i found very interesting When a natural disater happens like the earthquate in [...]
Can You Outlive Your Life? Yes You Can
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Along the line of Charitable Giving that i have been posting this week, Max Lucado wrote the Fable of Father Benjamin in his latest book “Outlive Your Life“ (You Were Made to Make A Difference) about a sea captain whose ship was blown off-course towards some uncharted islands in the South Sea. Island after island [...]
Effects Of Charitable Giving On Your Financial Freedom
September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As this Sunday, 26/09/2010 is Compassion Sunday, my post today is about charitable giving. In one chapter of my book “Milestones of Financial Freedom” – Simple Steps For Conquering Debt And Building Wealth, i wrote about money in its three phases: Survival Money, Smart Money and Sweet Money but there was specific phase that i [...]
Compassion Sunday 2010
September 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
For the last two years my family and i have had the priviledge of sponsoring a girl in Bangladesh named Rumeka through Compassion International. By the grace of God, this coming Sunday 26th September 2010, i will be introducing the activities of Commpassion International to the congregation in my church. Every year a special Sunday, [...]
Recognise When To Keep Your Money To Yourself
March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Talking about giving – we may have the intentions to be generous but not everyone wants to be helped. The ‘help’ that a man was trying to give a woman in America has turned into a £60,000 lawsuit. In a story that mirrors the film Pretty Woman starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts; a property [...]
Giving Has Its Rewards
March 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Few the last few days i have been posting articles about giving and it so happened that I have just finished reading the book Running With The Giants by John C. Maxwell which has good section on giving in it. Running with the Giants: What the Old Testament Heroes Want You to Know About Life [...]
The Phantom Bread Maker of Old Fowey
March 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Some people would like to give to others in times of need but without being recognised – though it may be necessary to be identified as this story shows: Residents of a Cornish town of Fowey are scratching their heads after a mystery baker began leaving freshly-baked bread on their doorsteps in the middle of [...]
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