Excellence

I just read a great book by Chauncey Crandall, M.D., entitled Raising the Dead. Dr. Crandall traces his medical career and his spiritual journey since the 1970's. He and several on his staff have witnessed numerous miracles, including healings of cancer and tumors, as well as people who were clinically dead coming back to abundant life.

Dr. Crandall says his purpose now is to give his patients "the best of medicine and the best of Jesus." I really appreciate how this Yale-educated, highly respected doctor uses every possible tool at his disposal, in order to serve his patients.

You can find the book on Facebook, if you'd like to become a "fan." You can buy the book in most major bookstores, as well as online. Dr. Crandall also has a newsletter to which you can subscribe.

Safety

I've recently had numerous conversations about safety. This post isn't meant to recommend gold, or timberland, or various other commodities and hard assets. While it's important to be a good steward, especially in times like these, my main point today is to ask you this: in what do you ultimately place your trust?

A client that I serve came in yesterday, and his investments are doing fine, but he had a health challenge, so I made sure that before he left, I prayed for him. I will continue to pray for him and his family, that they know that, ultimately, nothing is worthy of our trust except God.

In the book of Matthew, Jesus reminds us that Solomon, the richest man yet to live, was not arrayed as well as lilies! So let us remember that God loves us and wants the best for us. But we must allow Him to help us. He won't bully or interfere--we have to give Him our permission. When we do, marvelous things begin to happen!

Steve

Great Information!

Hi Everyone!

I just realized that I've been so busy keeping Facebook and Twitter updated, that I've neglected to post anything recent on our blog!

For any of you who are interested in Prophecy and who may be wondering how we as Christians should react to current world events, I have 2 things to recommend to you:

1) Come to our Monday night Bible study. Robert Mawire leads them. Robert has spoken to numerous world leaders, and his prophecies have time and again come true while surprising many who once refused to believe what he said. You can find out more about Robert and his books on the following 2 links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mawire and http://www.amazon.com/Americas-manifest-Destiny-Robert-Mawire/dp/1593523025/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273517899&sr=8-1

2) One of the books Robert recommended is the best book I've read in a long, long time! It picks up where the Book of Acts leaves off. It's written by Dumitru Duduman, who tells of his life as a Christian in Romania under the Nicolae Ceausescu regime. The book is called Through the Fire without burning: http://www.amazon.com/Through-Without-Burning-Dumitru-Duduman/dp/0963505505/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273518381&sr=1-1

Family and Friends supporting a Great Cause

Here are 2 photos taken at last month's Care Net banquet. Since our firm paid for a table, my daughter Ruth and I got to meet former Governor Mike Huckabee, and get our picture made with him.

Dr. and Mrs. Gary Williams also sat with us, and while I was tracking them down in the Ferrell Center (where the Baylor basketball teams play--Sic 'em Bears!), a Waco Tribune photographer snapped a photo of the 3 of us.

Gary has Today's Family Dental, and I can highly recommend him and his staff. They have been great for our family, handling our children's dental needs with "kid gloves." Gary's wife Sandra helps out at the office, and she also has a scrapbooking business. For those of you who are like I was with a mental image of a dusty scrapbook with pictures and clippings falling out, you need to see the cool digital stuff that Sandra does! It's also nice to have a dentist who prays for you!!

I loved how Care Net director Deborah McGregor inspired us to embrace her vision that within the next few years, abortions will not be needed in our area. Please pray with me that this will be accomplished soon.

Anyway, Gov. Huckabee did a great job. Even though I may not agree with all his positions, he is head and shoulders above almost all other candidates, in terms of his civility, not to mention the fact that he is very articulate. I respect him for those two reasons and many more. I hope I get to play some music with him sometime. For those of you who may not know, he has a weekly TV show on Fox TV, Saturdays at 7 p.m. Central. Again, I respect him because he's not afraid to have guests with differing opinions from his, and he expresses his opinions with civility.

workshop yesterday

Archie Hughes hosted our workshop yesterday. Once again we had great food prepared by Sergio Garcia of El Siete Mares. Rick Caywood also spoke to us about his ministry. I encourage you to partner with his ministry. Sign up for his emails at http://www.rcmcc.org/.



We plan to do a workshop for widows, widowers and those who've been through traumatic divorces on October 1st. Once again Sergio will provide the food, and it will be held at the Waco Chamber of Commerce, 101 South 3rd Street in Waco. Website is http://www.wacochamber.com/. If you haven't seen their new building, you should go take a tour. It's a great facility.



Our workshop in October will be just to minister, not to discuss any specific financial products or services. God repeatedly admonishes us to care for widows and orphans, so this is one way I wanted to serve.



Also at the workshop, everybody got to see a demonstration of Facebook and Twitter. I also showed my book website, http://www.todayswordonmoney.com/, which now contains a link to the radio interview I did about my book with Tim Wildmon at American Family Radio, http://www.afr.net/: http://www.afr.net/index.php?option=com_sermonspeaker&task=singlesermon&id=12333&Itemid=0

Birthdays!

Well my daughter Ruth turns 16 tomorrow. Wow, it seems like just a couple of years ago that I was knocking on doors and building my Edward Jones practice while Anna was enduring the hot summer of 1993 as a pregant lady!

Ruth has been such a blessing, and she seems to have even more of a gift for salesmanship than her dad. She loves the Lord and is seeking His will for her career path. What a blessing each one of our children is. I love trying to observe and discern their gifts and their processes of maturing, so that (I hope) I can give them good advice and share wisdom about how to become Godly adults.

I welcome readers' comments on what works (or doesn't work) when advising children about the "grown-up" world.

Twitter, another Blog, and a new Website

Hi Everyone,

As you can tell by how long it's been since I last posted something, we've been busy! Since last commenting on Facebook, I've also begun to use Twitter. You can follow me at www.twitter.com/TodaysWordMoney. I will probably be adding 2 more Twitter addresses in the near future. My goal for the Twitter accounts is to share the spiritual component of financial problems and solutions.

I'm also in the beginning stages of marketing my new book, Today’s WORD on Money™. The new website for the book is www.todayswordonmoney.com. Also, once you log on to this website, you can go to our new blog, where you can see some excerpts from the book. Or you can visit http://todayswordonmoney.blogspot.com/.

I hope the above information will bless you and your friends and loved ones. (And I hope you all buy the book!)