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Articles published in September 2017

The Need For A Personal ‘Margin Call’

By Rudolfs Dainis Smits The word "margin" has many meanings and applications. Even for the workplace. The Merriam-Webster dictionary, for example, says it can mean, a bare minimum below which or an extreme limit beyond which something becomes impossible or is no longer desirable. It can mean the difference between profit and loss. If equity in your account - value of securities minus what you owe the brokerage) - falls below the maintenance margin, the brokerage can issue a "margin call." This forces the investor to either liquidate his/her position in the stock, or add more cash to the account.

Accumulating Experience

The following was written by David Campaigne, a Senior Private Wealth Advisor located in Ronald Blue & Co.’s branch office in Baltimore, Maryland. Living in such a consumptive world, I think it’s very easy for us to value material possessions. This is not a trend that Christians are immune to. In a great book titled “A Trip Around the Sun” by Mark Batterson and Richard Foth, these words leapt off the pages when I read them: “Most of us spend our trips around the sun accumulating the wrong things. Possessions are a dime a dozen. Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.”

Why Does God Allow Evil?

By Rick Warren This is the crisis we're in: God's light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness ... because they were not really interested in pleasing God. John 3:19 (Msg) The horrific mass murder of innocent Americans on 9/11/01 left all rational people shocked, angry, grief-stricken and numb. Our tears flowed freely and our hearts carried a deep ache.