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Measuring the Success of Your Family
For 2023, consider making some adjustments for your family. I often say that one of the simple ways to measure the success…
Start with Your Family Stories
Building great family culture starts with stories. Brad Grey of Walking the Text teaches a simple truth: in Jewish families, from birth…
Can We Raise the 2 Percent?
There are some rosy numbers out there for the giving world. In 2014, the last full year numbers are available, charitable giving…
Don’t Make This Giving Mistake
I’ll never forget the frantic phone call I received one year ago on December 31st. A donor had sold some assets during…
The Seven Generation Legacy – Can It Be Yours?
When you meet with most advisors, they encourage you to think of retirement. “Plan for the long term” is the adage. But…
Bring Refreshment to Others for Yourself
Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Proverbs 11.25 (NIV) It’s a simple proverb: if you refresh others, you get refreshed too. What…
The Power of Refreshing Others
It’s a proverb. He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. (Proverbs 11.25) We were traveling across Kansas and needed a lunch…
Faith Is In the Not Knowing
Consider it. They were three friends. They were exiles living in a foreign land. Different people. Different culture. They lived under the…
The Surprising Contrast of Sacrifice and Anger
On Thursday, July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, bicycled to a rented 19-ton refrigerated truck. At 10:30pm, he drove the truck down…
My grandson knows my name!
Having a grandchild is a magical thing. It’s mind-blowing to watch your children have kids and go through some of the same…
What’s your moment of brokenness?
“Never trust a man without a limp,” or so goes the adage. What does that mean? The story goes that Jacob wrestled…