“You have an inborn instinct that longs for immortality. This is because God designed you, in his image, to life for eternity.” It seems like part of the human condition to pretend that death is not inevitable. We all assume we will live to be 100 years old, some even hold out hope for some …
Week 1 – Creating Marketing Strategies to Match the Behavior of Your Customers The first week of class and it is going to be an interesting session. This is the course they warn you about in the program due to the amount of work that is due, and there is a lot of work. I …
“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” I am always glad to see recovering addicts at Church, those coming to or coming back to Christ. To know they can make a clean break with their past, to choose another direction, one based on a relationship with God …
“Nothing in your life is arbitrary. It’s all for a purpose.” This day is about realizing that God made you, had planned you, had expected you from even before you were born. It takes into consideration and draws the line that although we didn’t choose our parents, and maybe they didn’t choose us, but God …
I am going to work through the 40 day reflections from Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life.” The book has been on my book shelf for a few years. I even started reading it on New Year’s day in 2023 and gave up less than halfway through it. This first post will be my first …
It’s a busy week with work and school starting up again. There is nothing to really report other than those things. Ben is playing basketball, Ted is in Scouts and playing the saxophone in band. I am working out every morning but I seem to have lost my lunchtime slot. I did perform my last …
Happy Zoo Year Because we were not able to get to the zoo during Christmas break, we decided to head there for New Years Eve. It’s a great event. What I like about it is having something to do and being home by 8:00 PM and off the roads. I just do not like being …
Christmas 2025 We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We did our normal tradition of being home on Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, and over to my in-laws for Christmas Dinner. My immediate family came over the Friday after for brunch. All around the food was very good. Both boys did well. We decided to …
Week 5 – Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis Our last week of class and the professor kindly is allowing us to finish the weekend with our exams. Usually we have until Friday of the fifth week and it makes it very difficult, but thankfully two extra days means I can catch up on Saturday. …
Week 4 – Fixed Income Securities and Common Stock Securities – Valuations We learned how to value bonds and common stocks and I learned a lot about bonds especially. It’s always been an unknown for me, but now I can calculate the value based on interest rates and how yields work. The latter always confused …