The Millionaire Who Traded His Fortune for a Hammer
By age twenty-nine, Millard Fuller was a self-made millionaire. He owned a mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, a Lincoln Continental, a lake house, and a cattle...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
By age twenty-nine, Millard Fuller was a self-made millionaire. He owned a mansion in Montgomery, Alabama, a Lincoln Continental, a lake house, and a cattle ranch. He also had a marriage falling apart under the weight of his relentless ambition. When his wife Linda left him in 1965, Fuller faced the kind of reckoning Isaiah describes — the moment when all our religious gestures and outward success ring hollow against the silence of God.…
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