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The Benefits of Personal Integrity

I’ll never forget this quote I read, years ago: “Character is who you are when no one is watching.” When I stepped back and took a good look at my life, I realized the person I was in private was not the person I wanted people to see. The real me was the person I was… all by myself. The fake me was what everyone else saw. I came to understand that without personal integrity, I was essentially a fraud.

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How to Become Rich

There is and has always been a fascination with the making of money. Everyone wants to be rich – no one wants to be poor. So a common question that arises in pesonal conversations, Internet chats, public forums, and any other gathering of minds, is this: how to become rich? Or, said another way, how to not become poor?

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The Power of Discipline

Many years ago I heard a story illustrating the power of discipline. A guy went to interview a group of kids incarcerated in juvenile hall. He was doing research on the causes of juvenile delinquency and hoped to learn some answers from the kids themselves. He asked them a simple question:

“What is the thing you wanted most growing up?”

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Strategies for Wealth – Keep It or Lose It

The strategies for wealth people choose is a revelation of their interests and skills. Since most people have an objective in mind when they begin their career path, the objective dictates the road they will follow, and the journey to get there will be a strong evidence of that person’s inclinations, desires, aptitudes, and most importantly, moral character.

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Righteousness and Justice – What God Desires of His People

Many people believe the way you make God happy with you is through sacrificing something. Now, I’m not talking about an offering on an altar, or a gift on a shrine, although that is how many people understand sacrifice. Rather, I am referring to the idea of sacrifice as something that one gives up in order to give to another. In this example, that “other” is God.

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