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Christian Finances

What’s the Best Way to Help the Poor?

03.11.2010 by Jason Topp 9 comments

If you’re a Christian, you can’t help but read the Bible and be overwhelmed by God’s concern for the poor, weak and marginalized in society. He tells us to be concerned for the widow and the orphan. Jesus himself said in Matthew 25 that, “As you did to one of the least of these, you did to me” meaning that if we gave food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty and clothes to the naked, it’s as if we did it to Jesus!

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Secretary Dies And Leaves $7 Million

03.08.2010 by Bob 10 comments

A woman named Grace Groner recently passed away at age 100 and she willed her estate to Lake Forest College – which ended up being $7 million dollars. She worked for Abbott Labs for 43 years and wasn’t the president of the company as one might expect from her estate, but rather the president’s secretary. According to the article…

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Premarital Financial Counseling: Questions To Ask

03.08.2010 by Joe 13 comments

According to the National Directory of Marriage and Family Counseling, the divorce rate in America has hovered around 50% since the mid 80’s, but premarital counseling reduces that number by 30%. And since money and money fights are one of the top reasons for divorce, financial premarital counseling is crucial for a solid marriage. Do you know ANYONE who is planning marriage? Are they getting good pre-marital counseling, which includes financial counseling? If not (or perhaps even if they are), this Three Step approach is meant for them…

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How To Enjoy Your Job (When You Don’t Like It)

03.03.2010 by Guest 18 comments

At the mention of work, some cringe. You may picture yourself arising early on a Monday morning only to drag yourself to another monotonous day at the widget factory. Work is sometimes painful, for sure. But what if we were able to change our perspective on this activity that occupies so much of our time? Is that possible?

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My Strategy for Giving Away Millions

03.02.2010 by Bob 25 comments

What if we could create millions of dollars only to give it away? How many missionaries could be supported? How many evangelistic outreaches could be funded? How many God glorifying books could be published? How many hungry could be fed? How many lost could be reached?
I believe there are lots of people who God wants to use as extravagant givers in this generation. People who will lay down their own agendas, change their pre-conceived notion of “success,” and humbly obey what God has for them…

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Help Budgeting Your Money: Easing The Frustrations

02.20.2010 by Steve Toschlog 1 comment

If you’ve ever sat down to write out your financial budget you know it can be one of the most frustrating things you’ll ever experience. Here is some help budgeting your money… No matter how hard you try, it just never seems to work out. The expenses are always greater than the income. On the rare occasion when you think it’s going to work out and the whole budgeting process seems at least doable, an unexpected emergency pops up, leaving you hopeless. You think to yourself, “This will never work!” Here is some encouragement and advice….

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Two Common Debt Situations and How to Overcome Them

02.12.2010 by Jason Price 11 comments

Debt is an interesting thing in that it doesn’t always find its way into your financial situation through the overuse and abuse of credit cards. While that is a common occurrence, debt has a way to sneak into peoples’ lives sometimes in more subtle ways.
Many people tend to look for quick and easy solutions to get [...]

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14 Rules For Money Fights With Your Spouse

02.09.2010 by Craig 9 comments

I wish we could call it a discussion about money. The fact is that many couples don’t have discussions about money – it’s an all out fight. Money topics are often so sensitive and so tender that it is hard for couples to effectively deal with money disagreements. There are so many good marriage tips, but few that deal specifically with money disagreements. One of the best things you can do for your marriage is to agree that you are going to “fight fair” by following some ground rules…

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Money Management Advice from Grandpa

02.02.2010 by Guest 10 comments

My grandfather used to say to me “If you take care of your pennies, your dollars will take care of themselves.” And “it’s not what you make, it’s what you save.” He and my grandmother were frugal, I mean frugal. I can remember when I was younger being appalled at their simplicity. My grandparents lived as though they had nothing, absolutely nothing. But here is the catch – they had more financial security than most people I knew back then and certainly more than many people I know of today…

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New Law on Bank Overdraft Fees & The “Courtesy” Overdraft Protection

01.20.2010 by Bob 8 comments

Recently Consumer Reports released an article discussing the new Federal law pertaining to banks and their overdraft services. Not sure if the motivation for the new regulation was customers like the one above, but I think it is probably a good thing.

Believe it or not, that $35 fee that the bank charges you when you overdraw your account is actually a “service” that your bank is offering you. They care so much about your well being that they want you to be able to buy that Snickers bar without being told that you don’t have the money in your account. And then they charge you $35 when you spend 50 cents more than you have in your account…

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How I learned to control my money

01.16.2010 by Guest 7 comments

There is always a loophole when it comes to my personal finances. No matter how much I budget, plan, or willpower I put forth, there is always somewhere that an extra large chunk of change goes. In my ever changing efforts to find a way to trim off those extra expenses I came upon something that worked wonders for me…

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Resources and ways to cut your debt load

01.15.2010 by Bob 6 comments

The series/eBook basically takes you through all the things that my wife (Linda) and I have done to pay down our debts. When we got married we had about $40,000 of debt. Even though that was a sizeable amount of debt, we had a very strong desire to get rid of it. This intense desire drove us to make sacrifices that seemed pretty uncommon when we looked at those around us. But, as Dave Ramsey often says, “You have to live like no one else (now), so that you can live like no one else (in the future)”…

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5 Money Resolutions for 2010

01.13.2010 by Bob 6 comments

CNN recently released an article called five money resolutions to make that gives some good ides for money moves to make this year…

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Giving more than 10%

01.05.2010 by Bob 17 comments

In my life I have noticed that God regularly pushes me to give a little bit more than I think I am able to. I guess that is the whole point – He is stretching me to see if I am going to depend on my own ability or put my faith in His ability to provide for what He is asking me to do. I have been giving 10% of my income for almost a decade now and have witnessed God’s faithfulness as we gave. There have been good times and times when things were really tight and I hung onto Philippians 4:19 – but in all of it I can confidently say that God was faithful…

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