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Seeking a peaceful future while insecurities play at full volume

Acting today greatly reduces regrets later

Always develop a realistic plan for the future

Honey, should we move here when we retire?

Building and Shaping the Future Is in Our Hands

How Can I Be Sure?

Encouragement & Hope delivered to your address!

Avoiding the danger of “mission drift”

5 things I wish college had taught about money!

Bring your questions, doubts, & fears. God & Scripture are ready!

Would Your Retirement Expectations Benefit from a Vaccination?

Don’t be paralyzed by financial analysis – There is more than one road to success

Beneficiary Designations – Impressive Tools or Imminent Torpedoes

Achieving Unity In An Antagonistic Environment

I want it all, and I want it NOW! Disaster often accompanies the demand…

Jesus, and Michelangelo, tell us to aim higher!

With everything going on, where should we focus our attention?

How did we get here? More importantly, how do we get out of here?

Lessons to treasure as we all move on from “a year to forget”

Following the Star – discovering the joy of making the season about Jesus

It’s time to examine ourselves and prepare for the future

Let’s help create a better financial future for those serving in ministry

Men, let’s talk about creating something more important than our retirement

When the fog burns away, clarity and beauty awaken the mind!

It is time to charge into the future…confidently!

Charting the course of retirement: What will it cost?

Christians – Holding the tongue may be difficult, but it is profitable!

We are all in our 50’s. How can we improve our retirement?

Help, we are in our 60’s. What should we be doing about retirement?

Your life MATTERS! – That is a PROMISE!

A hopeful retirement paradigm for those in ministry, missions, & nonprofit service

When it’s time to make the turn toward the rest of your life…

When it’s time to move from the corner of Discouraged & Hopeless

Pennie offers principles to guide financial decisions

Fielding this routine groundball can change your future

Don’t be the reason for the smile on the phisherman’s face

Taming the BITE of the Windfall Elimination Provision

Being consistently productive while working from home

Let’s choose living in eager expectation over enraged entanglement

Adaptability – embracing necessary change

Balance – an elusive key for life

Avoiding the sound of “splat” while accepting risk

Timeless financial lessons from the fishin’ hole

Protect your eggs! But don’t go overboard!

Saving for the future – an ancient, universal principal

Leaders are willing to accept risk and learn from failure

Want to change your mood? Change what is on your screen!

Calming the seas in periods of uncertainty

A few ideas to make your day, your life, or your retirement better

Labeling others jeopardizes the opportunity to communicate

Listening – the first step to moving forward in every situation

Safely correcting course when you discover you made a wrong turn!

Principles to remember when the road ahead is rough

When the darkness deepens – step into the light!

Everything You Need to Know About Budgeting – maybe!

Decisions based solely upon headlines will send our heads spinning!

Maintaining flexibility is a key for everyone – particularly seniors!

Calling all recent college grads & rising college seniors…

Two additional sources of confusion during 2020

Avoiding a derailment of our financial future

It is time for prayers of lament, with all their emotion!

If retirement isn’t on the burner, it needs to be!

Install a Safer Barrier for Retirement – Keeping Your Plans on Track

Changing Your Future – Principles that May Be Helpful

Healthy Choices to Take Your Mind Off the News

Lifetime Income – a Foundation for Retirement

Rules (uh…suggestions) for Retirement

Have World Events Increased Your Retirement Worries? – Some Expenses Go Down in Retirement

Are Lower Gasoline Prices Good News or BAD?

Controlling Everyday Expenses – Auto Insurance

Living Peacefully in an Angry Period

Will the economic recovery be an U, a V, a W, or swoosh – This really is not the point!

“Freedom, this is what I call freedom”

Rollovers, Direct Rollovers, & Trustee Transfers – Oh my!

Thrill rides belong in the amusement park – not in funding retirement

Prioritize the use of the 2020 COVID-19 stimulus check – or any special source funds

“I can afford the payment” – A double edged sword

The question is “How much income can your savings provide?” NOT “What is your account balance?”

Small steps today will create significant differences later in life!

Boring May Be Better Than Exciting!

Where Will Your Income Come From in Retirement?

What Income Will You Need & Have in Retirement?

If Your Goal Is Flexibility…You Need to be Unbending

Should Ministers Opt Out of Social Security? A Definitive Answer….maybe

Learning From as well as Responding to Events in Charlottesville

You Must Have Structure In Your Financial Life!

The terms don’t matter. Answers matter!

The Christian Churches Pension Plan is Stewardship For Your Future

How Financially Sound Is Your Pension?

Prepared for Retirement Part 4 – A Different View of Retirement

Prepared for Retirement Part 3 – A Lesson in Construction Management

Prepared for Retirement Part 2 – Knowing the Goal

Prepared for Retirement Part 1 – Seeing clearly

Money & Ministry – A Challenging Combination

THIS IS NOT AN ABANDONED WORLD

A lifetime income promise encourages more savings

Retirement Savings Crisis? Does It Matter?

If Uncle Sam & Aunt IRS offered a retirement plan…

Leaks sink boats and retirements!

Why are we being told retirement is more expensive?

Rock, Shock, Shylock!

Draining the Social Security Swamp!

Is Retirement an Entitlement or a Responsibility?

The Christian Churches Pension Plan and Preaching

Making Your Most Expensive Purchase a Winner!

A Point of Clarity in a World of Confusion

“One side’s ice and one is fire”

Save it now, or suffer without it later!

Retirement Planning – As Simple as Turning Up the Heat

Vaccinate Your Retirement!

Retirement Planning or Aerating the Lawn?

Retiring in Peace Requires Planning

A Step Toward Retirement Peace is Oh So Simple

Elder Financial Abuse: An Unusual, but Central Topic in Retirement Planning

Retirement – sure footed or standing firmly in mid-air?

“Whatever their itching ears want to hear!”

Don’t let Aunt Bea pickle your retirement!

Can Future Generations Count on Social Security?

A most difficult issue to handle in retirement planning!

Panning for YIELD, what you need to know!

An underutilized, powerful tool for now & retirement!

Women are different than men! Learn from them!

A majority to avoid – those with no emergency fund!

Can ANYTHING lasting come from Pokémon Go?

“Lost Time is Never Found”

The ugly side of retirement planning

Saving for Retirement is a Spiritual Act of Stewardship

Choices: Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

Options, Options, Everywhere (For Saving That Is)

Motivating Ministry Millennials to Save

The Risk of Running Out of Money