In a recent chat with a younger friend at church, he expressed a desire to find the right balance in his retirement stewardship. He didn’t use that phrase specifically, but that’s how I understood him. He was talking about his financial resources in general, but planning and saving for retirement is part of that equation….
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5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Save For Retirement
I can almost hear the gasps. “What is going on here!? He’s always harping on the need to save something for retirement; now he’s going to tell us we shouldn’t?” The fact is that most people probably aren’t saving as much as they should for retirement. Lots of recent studies bear that out. And if…
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Tithing and Giving in Retirement
Most of us will see a change in our financial situation in retirement. Instead of earning an income from work, we will start receiving income from other sources such as Social Security, pensions and/or annuities, and possibly withdrawals from our retirement savings accounts. Since our income sources will change in retirement, in what ways if…
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Can Retirement Stewardship Make you a Rich Fool?
The short answer is no, not if you practice it based on tried and true principles of Biblical stewardship. In fact, “stewardship” and “fool” together in the same sentence is an oxymoron. But it can be foolish to take anything – even something that is part of wise stewardship, like saving for retirement – to…
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