by Glenn Howell | Nov 16, 2022 | Firm Foundations
The other day I was going through an old box of papers, pictures and frames, and I came across something meaningful. It was a copy of my membership certificate in the United Methodist church. I was in 6th grade at our church in Union City, IN. For those of you who...
by Glenn Howell | Oct 17, 2022 | Firm Foundations
Two questions: First, can you imagine an amount of money that would earn more than $5.0 billion ($5,000,000,000) per day? Yes, 65 trillion dollars (65,000,000,000,000), at 3% return, would earn over $5 billion per day in interest. Second question: Why would I ask...
by Glenn Howell | Aug 11, 2022 | Firm Foundations
According to a poll conducted by ACS Technologies here, more than half of Americans list themselves as “Christian”. That is quite a lot, however, it is 15 million fewer persons than in 2011. In an article sharing the data, it states that the combined...
by Glenn Howell | Jul 28, 2022 | Firm Foundations
Those in church life know that the season of budgeting is soon upon us. Just as churches need a plan to receive money, they need a plan to spend it. Sadly, some churches don’t think strategically about connecting their budget with their ministry. Rather, they just...
by Glenn Howell | Jul 21, 2022 | Firm Foundations
Most of us have a junk drawer. It is that place we accumulate everything we might want to grab one day, but seldom do. Mine has always been in the kitchen. I was looking in it the other day, hunting a twist tie for a bag of bread. I found plenty of things—toothpicks,...
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