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Initiative, Industry, and Individuality

This is a quote from Rosalie Slater in Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History: “Christian economics is characterized by initiative, industry, and individuality. It is manifested as the productive quality of the active Christian who in being busy about His Father’s business glorifies the Creator. Christianity has the dual aspect of ...

Management of a Household

Of economics, Paul Zane Pilzer writes, “The word ‘economics’ comes from the Greek word oikonomia, meaning the ‘management of a household.’ While today’s ‘economics’ has come to mean the study of business and government issues by professional academics, the real economists in our society are the ones who practice economics ...

God or Mammon?

You cannot serve God and mammon. ~ Jesus, Matthew 6:24 NKJV According to E-sword, the root of mammon is avarice, which from the 1828 means: An inordinate desire of gaining and possessing wealth; covetousness; greediness or insatiable desire of gain. This definition helped me to realize that mammon is more than just “money” which ...