John 15:12 KJV – This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. I Corin. 13:1-8 AMP – If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for and in [...]
Proverbs 14:12 KJV – There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. We have all been bombarded with invitations to financial and estate planning seminars and have seen an enormous amount of advertising for them. In the financial and estate planning world, we call [...]
James 2:26 KJV – Faith without works is dead. During the course of my Entertainment Law practice, one of the most common experiences for me as an attorney is consulting and advising an artist who is extremely talented, but doesn’t understand that the entertainment industry is an industry and it is big business! For artists [...]
2 Timothy 4:7 KJV – I have fought a good fight, have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 AMP – I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight, I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith. The teams who are playing in the big [...]
Year after year, about this time, I meet with individuals and couples who have made a list of things they want to accomplish in the new year with either initiating or reviewing their Estate Planning as a high priority. The Byrds made very popular the first part of Ecclesiastes 3. Verse 1 AMP says, “To [...]
In my Estate Planning practice, I hear people joking about wishing they had a long lost rich uncle that left them a lot of money. The good news is that you don’t have a long lost rich uncle, but you do have a Heavenly Father that has made you His beneficiary. There are several ways [...]
The U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 3, commands the President of the United States as follows: “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” This week, President Obama communicated his State of the [...]
All people for the most part strive towards progress, but successful progress is almost certainly an unrealistic goal without a holistic approach. Many use the term holistic, but it is important for this discussion to understand the meaning of the term as some only use it but do not follow through on actually practicing in [...]
Christian Estate Planning requires knowledge which produces wisdom. We have to have knowledge about the blessings and then have the wisdom to appropriate them for ourselves. This helps us to appropriate God’s blessings in our lives. This is God’s best in terms of Christian Estate Planning. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…Hosea 4:6 AMP [...]
For as long as I can remember, I have identified myself as a Christian. I can even remember the day that I officially gave my heart to the Lord – October 2, 1988. My intentions have always undeniably been good, but I have, on occasion, gone down paths that did not mirror or reflect what [...]
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