Medicare Health Insurance Options

This article is part of the Biblically-Informed Framework for Retirement Stewardship (BIFRS) series. It was originally published on September 5, 2016, and updated in April 2026. When I first wrote this article in 2016, my wife and I were closing in on Medicare eligibility at age 65. We were trying to navigate the complexity from … Read more

Health Insurance Options Before Medicare

This article is part of the Biblically-Informed Framework for Retirement Stewardship. It was originally published on September 3, 2016, and substantially updated in April 2026. Your medical insurance choices will depend greatly on whether you are young and far from retirement, an “early” retiree with a few years until Medicare eligibility, or 65 or older … Read more

Should Your Financial Planner/Adviser/Broker be a “Fiduciary”?

This article is part of the Biblically-Informed Framework for Retirement Stewardship (BIFRS). It was initially published in April 2016 and updated in January 2026. In this article, I assume you either use a financial professional or a firm to help with your investments, or you are considering it. If you manage them yourself, which is … Read more