Half
of Young People Expect to Strike It Rich - Gallup
A recent Gallup Poll, conducted Jan. 20-22, finds that 31% of Americans expect to get rich at some time in their lives, and another 2% volunteer that they already are rich. The public's definition of rich means an annual income of about $120,000 or financial assets of about $1 million (each figure is the median estimate). These figures, as well as the percentage who expect to get rich, all vary considerably by gender, age, and income.
- When you hear the word "rich" what comes to mind? How
would you define it? At what point do you become rich?
- Do you think you will be rich? What can you do to insure that you
get a well paying job?
- Where does God fit in? Is it wrong to pray for a high income job?
This question is deeper than it appears. On one hand, if you are praying
for a high income job, isn't your desire to be rich? On the other
hand, if you are praying to God and asking for His help, isn't that
being humble and acknowledging Him as the one person Who has the power
to do it?
- If God does allow you to have a higher income job, how should you
honor Him in that job? (hint: being honest, grace-based leadership,
give credit where credit is due, generous, etc.)
- Proverbs 10:22; 11:28; 23:4-5; 1 Samuel
2:7; James 4:13-17.
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SIDE ORDERS - other news
Keep
your money - Sports Illustrated
Bob Knight told Texas Tech he wouldn't accept his $250,000
coaching salary this year because his team failed to live up to his
expectations -- and so did he.
Do-gooder
fired - Canoe
A single mom was fired from her part-time job delivering
pizza after rushing to the aid of a gunshot victim while she was still
on the clock. "We feel just as bad as the next guy but we don't
pay employees to be EMTs, which she isn't," Jason Boyd, a supervisor
at Frank's Pizza in Selkirk, told a local newspaper last week.
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