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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Making the right choices – Ten WordsWord # 7 Choose Loyalty!
Making the right choices? At the beginning of this year, I was shocked and angry at seeing posters at bus stops in our neighbourhood...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words - Word #6: Life!
God values human life highly, and He wants us to value and choose life as well. od is the giver of life. He breathed into the first man...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words
Word # 5: Honour! Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” (Exodus...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words
Word # 4: Work & Rest! ““Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words
Word # 3: A Good Name! “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words
Word # 2: No Idols! Making the right choices – Ten Words Word # 2 No idols! “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words
Word # 1: The Source of Supreme Authority A god is, according to the dictionary, “a superhuman being or spirit worshipped as having power...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Making the right choices - Ten Words
In this new series of blogs, I will be looking at a code to help us make good choices – personally, and for our family, business and...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Financial Fitness for Uncertain Times Part 6: 'Build Endurance!'
Part 6 of a six part series. Series: Financial Fitness for Uncertain Times 6. Build Endurance In part 5 of this series, we encouraged you...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Financial Fitness for Uncertain Times Part 5: 'Build Muscle!'
Part 5 of a six part series. In part 4 of this series, we encouraged you to lose the heavy burden of debt in order to be financially it...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Financial Fitness for Uncertain Times Part 4: 'Loose weight!'
Part 4 of a six part series. In part 3 of this series, we encouraged you to start your financial health plan by making a spending plan to...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Financial Fitness for Uncertain Times Part 3: 'Get financially fit!'
Part 3 of a six part series. ISeries: Financial Fitness for Uncertain Times In part 2 of this series, we encouraged you to take a...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Financial Fitness in Troubling Times Part 2: 'Take a financial physical!'
Part 2 of a six part series. In part 1 of this series, we asked ourselves, “Am I a thermometer, or a thermostat?” Do I allow myself,...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Financial Fitness in Troubling Times Part 1: 'Get ready to change ...'
Part 1 of a five part series. Welcome to uncertain times – again! Economists will agree that there has been a major economic recession...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Flourishing in Troubling Times
This book strives to help followers of Jesus to do well in difficult times in their lives, and strikes a good balance between the...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20232 min read
He who dies with the most toys wins?
This week, Donald & Melania Trump visited the house of Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi. It reminded me of a visit I made while in Delhi and this...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20232 min read
World Bank: New Report Warns of a Financial Crash Coming ...
World on brink of financial crash as ‘wave of debt’ threatens ‘unhappy ending!’ A Global Economic Crisis could soon be at hand according...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20233 min read
The Laundromat
Remember the scandal about the Panama Papers, about money laundering and tax evasion which broke in 2016? Towards the end of 2019, the...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20232 min read
Getting rich from gambling!
The highest paid executive in the UK is Denise Coates, boss of the betting organization Bet365. In 2019 she received a salary of £ 277...
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Bert Den Hertog
Mar 21, 20232 min read
Six meals from starvation?
We regard our society as having reached a level of sophistication that renders it uniquely vulnerable to total collapse.
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