The New Administration and Your Retirement Stewardship: Part 2
This article is the second about the incoming Biden administration and its plans and proposals that could be most impactful to those planning for or already...
My Top 10 Posts for 2020
This has been a year that we will never forget. 2020 was a highly contentious presidential election year in the middle of a global pandemic. Violence and...
The New Administration and Retirement Stewardship: Part 1
As you know, I don't "get political" on this blog. That doesn't mean I don't care about politics; I do. I focus on other things here, but when the political...
Is Building Wealth for Retirement "Striving After the Wind"?
Our pastors have recently been preaching expositorily through the Book of Ecclesiastes. In a message on Ecc. 5:8-20, one pastor made this statement: "Wealth...
My "Bucket Strategy"
I think many retirees, especially those with fewer savings, should strongly consider the "cash bucket with income floor" strategy that I discussed in the...
Medicare Commercials – Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves
I decided to interrupt my series on "the Bucket Strategy" to look at something that concerns me: potentially misleading Medicare ads. Every time I see them...
The "Cash Bucket Strategy": Issues and Alternatives
This article is the second in a three-part series on the "Bucket Strategy." The bucket strategy is a good one, but it's not perfect. I have been using a...
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the "Cash Bucket Strategy"
The coronavirus pandemic and corresponding market crash will likely cause the retirement "Cash Bucket Strategy" to become more popular. As Dave Ramsey often...
Jobless and Nearing Retirement Age—What To Do?
I recently read this quote from a retirement expert in a MarketWatch article titled, "Opinion: Half of Americans Over 55 May Retire Poor": Our data is...
I Gave Retirement Stewardship a "Facelift!"
I started this blog over five years ago. Since that time, I have made very few design changes to the website so I decided it was time. I upgraded the...
Retirement Stewardship During Extremely Low Interest Rates
The COVID-19 pandemic has created some significant economic repercussions, not the least of which is a further reduction of already low prevailing interest...
The "Promised Land" of Retirement
On a recent Sunday morning, one of our lay-elders-in-training (we call them pastoral interns) gave his personal testimony and shared from Joshua 1:1-9, a...
Announcing My New Book: "The Minister's Retirement"
I am very excited to announce that my new book, The Minister's Retirement, has been released and is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats....
Is Purchasing a Vacation Home Wise Stewardship?
I was recently asked by a friend what I thought about buying a vacation home, specifically a beach house. They said they have a relative who owns one and...
Things I am Grateful For as a Retiree During a Pandemic
We're in the middle of what is, without a doubt, going to be one of strangest years in my almost-68-year lifetime. Six months ago, I didn't think anyone...
The Growing Federal Debt and Your Investments
With the COVID-19 pandemic came unprecedented levels of federal spending. As a result, the national debt has reached $26 trillion, and the Congressional...
Out of the Stock Market? Now What?
For older workers starting to think about retiring, or already in retirement, the economic turmoil the coronavirus pandemic triggered caused reactions...
Redeeming Stewardship Failures
Financial crises have a way of revealing the weaknesses, and sometimes failures, of our stewardship practices. As renowned investor Warren Buffet humorously...
The 'Stewardship of Life' (Part Four)—Long-Term Care Insurance
This article is the fourth and final one in a series about long-term care (LTC). In the last article, I alluded to long-term care insurance (LTCI) as one of...
The 'Stewardship of Life' (Part Three)—Paying for Long-Term Care
The potential need for an extended time in long-term care (LTC) is a crucial retirement stewardship concern because of its significant financial...