Category: Finishing Well

  • Our Greatest Risk In Retirement

    If you’re young, the most critical retirement risk you face right now is that you may be hoping to retire someday, but you haven’t given much thought to retirement planning. Or maybe you’re counting on Social Security and Medicare for your financial security in retirement; after all, you’re paying taxes, right? In fact, not saving…

  • Space, Time, and Retirees

    As retirees, we rarely discuss time unless it’s to inquire about the current hour. When was the last time you were at a dinner party and someone asked you, ”Hey, <insert your name here>, how much time do you think you have left?” Polite people don’t ask such things. However, as we get older, the…

  • Back to Work

    Did the title of this article (or the image above) surprise you? Perhaps you think I may have rejoined the workforce in a full or part-time paid position? Well, that’s not the case, and I’ll explain later in this article. But before I go there, you may be surprised to know that, according to a…

  • Loving Your Widow With Wise Stewardship

    In my last post, I suggested some new year’s resolutions you may want to consider. In this article, I want to carry that theme forward, but in a slightly different way. Not too long ago, I read an article on the Center for Retirement Research website titled, “Husbands Ignore Future Widows Needs.” As I read…

  • Reflections and Lessons from 40 Years of Stewardship

    As I shared in a previous article, I decided to retire from my full-time paid position a few weeks ago. I will do an article about how my “transition” to retirement is going and what I am up to in a future article. In this post, I want to share the main lessons I have…

  • Tithing and Giving in Retirement

    Most of us will see a change in our financial situation in retirement. Instead of earning an income from work, we will start receiving income from other sources such as Social Security, pensions and/or annuities, and possibly withdrawals from our retirement savings accounts. Since our income sources will change in retirement, in what ways should…

  • Boats, Seashells, Softball, and Retirement Stewardship

    Tim Challies recently highlighted an article published on the Gospel Coalition blog in the “A la carte Friday” daily feature on his blog. The GC article, titled “How John Piper’s Seashells Swept over a Generation,” is about a message that Dr. Piper gave back in May of 2000 to an outside audience of approximately 40,000…

  • What is Retirement Stewardship?

    Perhaps you’re curious about the title of this blog, Retirement Stewardship. You often hear the word “retirement”, and occasionally the word “stewardship”, but seldom if ever are they used together. As you will see in this article, which is an excerpt from my free eBook, “15 Principles of Retirement Stewardship“, they actually go together pretty…

  • What Will You Do When You Retire?

    In a brief conversation with a friend after church recently, the topic of “retirement” came up. He and I are about the same age. He made a statement that stuck with me. He said that he was thinking about retirement but had one big concern – he didn’t have any idea what he would do…