Posts by Tom Lipp

When does God get most prayers coming his way? That’s easy – the day before the lottery. Now I suppose that some prayer is better than no prayer, but we need to remember that the Lord told us how to pray long before lotteries came along. As a matter of fact, our Heavenly Father is…

Each of us has to ask ourselves a very important question. I alluded to it in the August and again in October. Am I living in a closed system or an open system? Now what on earth does that mean? By the word “system” I refer to a process that has known inputs, operations and…

Years before I became an accountant I wanted to become a nuclear physicist. Imagine that – what a switch! I loved science. I wanted to know how and why things worked. In high school I majored in science and won the science award. Then I came to know the Creator of it all, that is,…

Right now Alberta is rolling in money. We have never had it so good – financially. What should we do? Let’s take a lesson from the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine described in Genesis 41. God gave Joseph the wisdom to recognize that conditions would not always be like this…

Do you live in a closed system or an open system? A couple of my clients have been encouraging me in their display of generosity and trust in God. They live in an open system and are watching God show Himself faithful. Wes recently cashed in an RRSP, giving it all to a Christian charity…

Money and morality don’t mix well. That’s why for the most part I dismiss so called ethical mutual funds as a sales gimmick. To qualify for socially responsible investing a company must respect environmental and labour standards, while not deriving its revenues from tobacco, alcohol, gambling, military weaponry or nuclear power. It helps too if…

This is the last in a series on wealth and the Christian. First we saw that having wealth is not a sin; it is the love of wealth that God forbids. Then we saw that the prosperity gospel is a well-packaged but dangerous decoy that lures believers into forfeiting eternal treasures for short-term worldly wealth.…

Last month we saw that Jesus warned us against the love of riches, but not against riches themselves. Today the topic is the proverbial “Prosperity Gospel”. Since I am a financial planner and not a medical doctor, I will deal only with the wealth aspect of the so-called “health and wealth” gospel. The book of…

This is the first of a three part series dealing with the issue of wealth and the Christian. First I’ll look at that often misunderstood passage, “You cannot serve God and money.” In the next article I want to deal with the wealth gospel. The final column will deal with the concept of treasure. When…