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Christian Finances

Should A Christian Have A Credit Card?

10.15.2007

Credit cards may be a more recent phenomenon, but the concept of borrowing from others goes back a long time. The Bible mentions borrowing and lending many times, but credit cards are never explicitly covered because, well, they didn’t exist.

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Is God bad at Math?

09.30.2007

I think I can say with confidence that the Bible does NOT endorse the “save it all up then give” method. This is a little bit of a struggle for me, because the mathematical portion of my brain can see the enormous benefit.

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Forbes 400 Richest Americans

09.23.2007

Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans was just recently released, and was topped by Bill Gates. Second was none other than my favorite billionaire Warren Buffett.

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A simple act

08.28.2007

I was driving home from work yesterday and I saw a man begging on the off ramp by my house. As I drove past I had this strong compulsion to go take him out to lunch and talk to the guy. This was about the last thing in the world that I WANTED to do.

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Should you give to beggars?

08.23.2007

Obviously, the Bible makes it very clear that we are to give to the poor. There are countless verses to support this. But, it also says in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.”

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He fed four thousand, He will feed you

08.08.2007

At the beginning of Mark 8, Jesus performs this awesome miracle of taking seven loaves and feeding four thousand people with it. The disciples were with Him the whole time. They witnessed this and experienced it. They ate the fish and bread that was miraculously duplicated.

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Was Jesus a tightwad?

08.02.2007

It seems that many Americans think the defining indicator of financial security is your lack of concern for waste. You can see it all over our culture with movie stars spending $30,000 on a designer handbag to carry their dogs in, or in the rock-n-roll lifestyle where music videos clearly portray the idea that,”money is no object,” often times in a competition of who can have the most gold chains or throw the most cash in the air.

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Walk with the wise

07.26.2007

Obviously, this isn’t an exact figure, but I think the point is a valid one that extends way beyond income to many areas of our lives. The truth is that we are affected by those around us. By putting positive influences in our lives, we will begin to change in that direction.

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Would you ask God for money…

07.02.2007

… if He said you could have anything you wanted? This is a good question to ask yourself, because it reveals a lot about your heart.

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The power to get wealth

06.28.2007

But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Deu 8:18
Notice that the above verse says he gives us the POWER to get wealth. There is action required on our part.

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The seasons of life

06.28.2007

There is a tendency in our modern, “gotta have it now” culture to try to get things before the proper season. I believe that God has laid our lives out with a nice disbursement of blessings all along the way.

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He cares for the birds

06.24.2007

“God gives every bird its food, but He doesn’t throw it in the nest.”
-J.G. Holland
There is a fine line between waiting on God and trying to make something happen in our own strength.

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Who needs faith? I’ve got credit cards!

06.21.2007

What would happen if we decided that no matter how bad things looked, we would not put our trust in our credit cards, but we would trust that God will take care of each and every one of our needs?

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Trash cans and giving

06.19.2007

For some reason this translation allowed me to visualize what Luke is talking about. It reminds me of my kitchen trash can that I always stomp the trash as much as possible before taking it to the dumpster.

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